suprematism
IPA: suprˈɛmʌtɪzʌm
Root Word: Suprematism
noun
- (art) A genre of abstract art based on simple geometric forms championed by the Russian avant-garde in the early twentieth century.
- Alternative letter-case form of Suprematism [(art) A genre of abstract art based on simple geometric forms championed by the Russian avant-garde in the early twentieth century.]
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Examples of "suprematism" in Sentences
- Their work influenced suprematism and expressionism.
- And I expect then to see examples of white suprematism.
- Suprematism is the belief that one group deserves to be supreme.
- Avant-garde became an umbrella for such art movements as neo-primitivism, suprematism, constructivism, and futurism.
- The goal of this course was to develop creative thinking in abstract art by consistently mastering Malevich’s methods “from cubism to suprematism.”
- Lenin's tomb was designed by AV Shchusev, an architect involved in the constructivist movement and influenced by Kazimir Malevich, the founder of suprematism.
- The debate was intensified by radical supporters of “pure” form; the years 1920-39 heralded the ideas of formalism, suprematism, unism, purism, neo-plasticism; also, Malevitch's pronouncements in
- One of the most extreme reformers of twentieth century art and the originator of a special abstract art stream called suprematism, Malevich thought of his art utopia as of a universal metaphysical system of cosmic scope whose mission was to reorganize the world.
- It appears that anxiety, anti-modern loathing, racial suprematism and fascist inclinations on the one hand and the open embrace of urb­an­isation, mass production and new aesthetic possibilities, on the other, may both be regarded as characteristic of modernism.
- Her experience of an immense range of Russian art, from icons to suprematism, consolidated characteristics that had been apparent in her art for many years: brilliance of colour, especially in her pastels and watercolours, and a frequent use of abstract shapes and strokes.
- Chagall's fanciful stylization and painterly details at Gosket were much informed by his recent stay in Paris, where he absorbed that city's modernist trends, notably cubism, as well as by the constructivism and suprematism of the Soviet Union's own burgeoning avant-garde.
- I especially like the comment: "It appears that anxiety, anti-modern loathing, racial suprematism and fascist inclinations on the one hand and the open embrace of urbanisation, mass production and new aesthetic possibilities, on the other, may both be regarded as characteristic of modernism."