< Russian suprematízm (1913) < French suprémat ( ie ) supremacy + Russian -izm -ism
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Lenin's tomb was designed by AV Shchusev, an architect involved in the constructivist movement and influenced by Kazimir Malevich, the founder of suprematism.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 8, 2011
The artists, however, took it as a stamp of approval for cubo-futurism, suprematism, constructivism and the other isms that the ferment of Western art had helped set off.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Ukrainian avant-garde’s radical reimagining of folk and Byzantine art, Cubism, Futurism, Suprematism and Constructivism by artists including Davyd Burliuk, Mykhailo Boichuk, Viktor Palmov and Vasyl Yermilov will all be represented in Madrid.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
Cubism was “a race to flatness”; Suprematism was “the zero point of painting”; Rodchenko said he made “the last painting”; Ad Reinhardt one-upped him saying he was “making the last painting which anyone can make.”
From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2016
Frere-Jones wrote fiction in high school and also dabbled in Russian Suprematism, a form of abstract painting where squares figure prominently.
From BusinessWeek ● Apr. 8, 2014
Although he drew heavily from early-20th-century avant-garde movements like Fauvism and Cubism, he later repudiated Cubism and rejected Suprematism and Surrealism.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2012
A vigorous partisan in the art groups of Moscow before, during and after the ^ revolution, Malevich invented a new art movement, consisting essentially of himself: Suprematism.
From Time Magazine Archive
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