Editing Suprematism (section)

==Birth of the movement==
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| image1 = Kazimir Malevich, 1915, Black Suprematic Square, oil on linen canvas, 79.5 x 79.5 cm, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.jpg
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| caption1 = Kazimir Malevich, ''[[Black Square (painting)|Black Square]]'', 1915, oil on linen, 79.5 × 79.5 cm, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
| caption2 = Kazimir Malevich, ''[[Black Circle]]'', motive 1915, painted 1924, oil on canvas, 106.4 × 106.4 cm, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
| caption3 = Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition – ''[[White on White]]'', 1918, Museum of Modern Art, New York
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}}{{See also|Kazimir Malevich|Russian avant-garde}}
Kazimir Malevich developed the concept of Suprematism when he was already an established painter, having exhibited in the ''[[Donkey's Tail]]'' and the ''[[Der Blaue Reiter]]'' (The Blue Rider) exhibitions of 1912 with [[cubo-futurism|cubo-futurist]] works. The proliferation of new artistic forms in painting, poetry and theatre as well as a revival of interest in the traditional [[folk art]] of Russia provided a rich environment in which a [[Modernism|Modernist]] culture was born.

In "Suprematism" (Part II of his book ''The Non-Objective World'', which was published 1927 in Munich as [[Bauhaus]] Book No. 11), Malevich clearly stated the core concept of Suprematism:
{{blockquote|Under Suprematism I understand the primacy of pure feeling in creative art. To the Suprematist, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth.}}

He created a suprematist "grammar" based on fundamental geometric forms; in particular, the square and the circle. In the ''[[0.10 Exhibition]]'' in 1915, Malevich exhibited his early experiments in suprematist painting. The centerpiece of his show was the ''[[Black Square (painting)|Black Square]]'', placed in what is called the ''red/beautiful corner'' in Russian Orthodox tradition; the place of the main icon in a house. "Black Square" was painted in 1915 and was presented as a breakthrough in his career and in art in general. Malevich also painted ''[[White on White]]'' which was also heralded as a milestone. ''White on White'' marked a shift from [[polychrome]] to [[monochrome]] Suprematism.