Editing Suprematism (section)

==Distinct from Constructivism==
{{See also|Constructivism (art)}}
Malevich's Suprematism is fundamentally opposed to the postrevolutionary positions of [[Constructivism (art)|Constructivism]] and materialism. Constructivism, with its cult of the object, is concerned with utilitarian strategies of adapting art to the principles of functional organization. Under Constructivism, the traditional easel painter is transformed into the artist-as-engineer in charge of organizing life in all of its aspects.

Suprematism, in sharp contrast to Constructivism, embodies a profoundly anti-materialist, anti-utilitarian philosophy. In "Suprematism" (Part II of ''The Non-Objective World''), Malevich writes:

{{blockquote|Art no longer cares to serve the state and religion, it no longer wishes to illustrate the history of manners, it wants to have nothing further to do with the object, as such, and believes that it can exist, in and for itself, without "things" (that is, the "time-tested well-spring of life").}}

Jean-Claude Marcadé has observed that "Despite superficial similarities between Constructivism and Suprematism, the two movements are nevertheless antagonists and it is very important to distinguish between them." According to Marcadé, confusion has arisen because several artists—either directly associated with Suprematism such as [[El Lissitzky]] or working under the suprematist influence as did [[Alexander Rodchenko|Rodchenko]] and [[Lyubov Popova]]—later abandoned Suprematism for the culture of materials.

Suprematism does not embrace a humanist philosophy which places man at the center of the universe. Rather, Suprematism envisions man—the artist—as both originator and transmitter of what for Malevich is the world's only true reality—that of absolute non-objectivity.

{{blockquote|...a blissful sense of liberating non-objectivity drew me forth into a "desert", where nothing is real except feeling...|"Suprematism", Part II of ''The Non-Objective World''}}

For Malevich, it is upon the foundations of absolute non-objectivity that the future of the universe will be built - a future in which appearances, objects, comfort, and convenience no longer dominate.