suprematism
noun
a nonrepresentational style of art developed in Russia in the early 20th century, characterized by severely simple geometric shapes or forms and an extremely limited palette.
Suprematist
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a word derived from
Suprematism.
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Sawed up like puzzle pieces and fitted back together, the tables’ now-unified top is painted with intersecting geometric shapes, like a radical Suprematist painting by El Lissitzky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2019
Each set is a homage to Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, founder of the Suprematist movement and a major influence on both artists.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2018
Although clearly positioned within representational art of a particularly mystical kind, de Holanda’s triangular and circular forms seem simultaneously to anticipate early-20th-century abstraction — for example, Kazimir Malevich’s geometric Suprematist paintings.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2014
Around the same time, she visited the Museum of Modern Art, paying special attention to Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist Composition: White on White and Piet Mondrian's color-block grids.
From Time ● Feb. 21, 2013
Artists from Russian Suprematist Kasimir Malevitch to Jasper Johns have turned out white-on-white paintings; Ad Reinhardt experimented with black on black.
From Time Magazine Archive
