Editing Suprematism (section)

==The ''Supremus'' journal==
{{See also|Verbovka Village Folk Centre}}
The [[Supremus]] group, which in addition to Malevich included [[Aleksandra Ekster]], [[Olga Rozanova]], [[Nadezhda Udaltsova]], [[Ivan Kliun]], [[Lyubov Popova]], [[Lazar Khidekel]], [[Nikolai Suetin]], [[Ilya Chashnik]], [[Nina Genke-Meller]], [[Ivan Puni]] and [[Ksenia Boguslavskaya]], met from 1915 onwards to discuss the philosophy of Suprematism and its development into other areas of intellectual life. The products of these discussions were to be documented in a monthly publication called ''Supremus'', titled to reflect the art movement it championed, that would include painting, music, decorative art, and literature. Malevich conceived of the journal as the contextual foundation in which he could base his art, and originally planned to call the journal ''Nul''. In a letter to a colleague, he explained:

{{blockquote|We are planning to put out a journal and have begun to discuss the how and what of it. Since in it we intend to reduce everything to zero, we have decided to call it ''Nul''. Afterward we ourselves will go beyond zero.}}

Malevich conceived of the journal as a space for experimentation that would test his theory of nonobjective art. The group of artists wrote several articles for the initial publication, including the essays "The Mouth of the Earth and the Artist" (Malevich), "On the Old and the New in Music" (Matiushin), "Cubism, Futurism, Suprematism" (Rozanova), "Architecture as a Slap in the Face to Ferroconcrete" (Malevich), and "The Declaration of the Word as Such" (Kruchenykh).  However, despite a year spent planning and writing articles for the journal, the first issue of ''Supremus'' was never published.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Drutt|first1=Matthew|title=Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism|date=2003|publisher=Guggenheim Museum Publications|location=New York|isbn=0-89207-265-2|pages=44–60}}</ref>