Rise of Suprematism

Suprematism was a Russian art movement founded by Kazimir Malevich, who developed its ideas in the years around 1913 and presented the first suprematist works in 1915. Malevich rejected the depiction of recognizable objects and built paintings from basic geometric forms, such as squares, circles and crosses, on plain backgrounds, aiming for what he called the supremacy of pure feeling. His Black Square, shown in 1915, became the movement's most famous work. Artists such as El Lissitzky and Lyubov Popova took up the approach, and it influenced Constructivism, architecture and later graphic design. In the Soviet Union abstract art fell out of favor in the 1930s, and the movement was suppressed.

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