Editing Suprematism (section)

==Influences on the movement==
{{See also|Cubism|Futurism (art)}}
Malevich also credited the birth of Suprematism to ''[[Victory Over the Sun]]'', [[Aleksei Kruchenykh|Kruchenykh]]'s [[Russian Futurism|Futurist]] opera production for which he designed the sets and costumes in 1913. The aim of the artists involved was to break with the usual theater of the past and to use a "clear, pure, logical Russian language". Malevich put this to practice by creating costumes from simple materials and thereby took advantage of geometric shapes. Flashing headlights illuminated the figures in such a way that alternating hands, legs or heads disappeared into the darkness. The stage curtain was a black square. One of the drawings for the backcloth shows a black square divided diagonally into a black and a white triangle. Because of the simplicity of these basic forms they were able to signify a new beginning.

Another important influence on Malevich were the ideas of the Russian mystic, philosopher, and disciple of [[Georges Gurdjieff]], [[P. D. Ouspensky]], who wrote of "a fourth dimension or a [[Fourth Way (book)|Fourth Way]] beyond the three to which our ordinary senses have access".<ref>(Gooding, 2001)</ref>

Some of the titles to paintings in 1915 express the concept of a [[non-Euclidean geometry]] which imagined forms in movement, or through time; titles such as: ''Two dimensional painted masses in the state of movement''. These give some indications towards an understanding of the ''Suprematic'' compositions produced between 1915 and 1918.