"For us [the young artists in Vitebsk, 1920] Suprematism did not signify the recognition of an absolute form which was part of an already completed universal system, on the contrary; here stood revealed for the first time in all its purity the clear sign and plan for a definite new world never before experienced - a world which issues forth from our inner being and which is only now in the first stages of its formation, for this reason the square [Malevich's] Black and Red Square ] of suprematism became a beacon."
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El Lissitzky, from his essay of 1920, 'Suprematism in World Reconstruction'; as cited by Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers, in El Lissitzky: Life, Letters, Texts, trans. Helene Aldwinckle and Mary Whittall (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1968), p. 327
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Kazimir Malevich
1910 – 1911
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (23 February 1879 – 15 May 1935) was a painter, art theoretician, pioneer of geometric abstract art, and one of the most important members of the Russian avant-garde. He was also the founder of the art movement Suprematism.
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