SUPREMATISM in ARCHITECTURE

Table of Contents

1) Introduction1) What is Suprematism2) Who started it3) The Concept

2) Brief History1) Beginnings2) Supermatist group3) Zero Degree

3) Timeline4) Architecture

1) Ilja Chashnik2) Kazimir Malevich3) Theo van Doesburg4) Walter Gropius5) Le Corbusier

5) References

What is Suprematism?

Suprematism was an art movement, focused on basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines, and rectangles, painted in a limited range of colours.

Who started it?

It was founded by Kazimir Malevich in Russia, around 1913

Kazimir Malevich 1915

1) INTRODUCTION

THE CONCEPT

“Under Suprematism I understand the suprimacy of pure feeling in creative art. To the Suprematist, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth.”

Kazimir Malevich 1927

Beginnings

Suprematism was an art movement founded in Russia during the First World War. The first hints of it emerged in background and costume sketches that Kazimir Malevich designed in 1913 for Victory Over the Sun, a Futurist opera performed in St. Petersburg.

Suprematist group

In 1915, the Russian artists KseniyaBoguslavskaya, Ivan Klyun, Mikhail Menkov, Ivan Puni and Olga Rozanova joined with Kazimir Malevich to form the Suprematist group.

Kazimir Malevich 1915

2) BRIEF HISTORY

Victory Over the Sun, 1983

0,10 The Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings (1915)

Zero Degree

The Suprematists' interest in abstraction was fired by a search for the 'zero degree' of painting, the point beyond which the medium could not go without ceasing to be art.

The irreducible core or the bare minimum of painting

3) TIMELINE

Ilja Chashnik

4) ARCHITECTURE

Kazimir Malevich

Theo Van Doesburg

Walter Gropius

Le Corbusier

5) REFERENCES

• Gustavi.B, SUPREMATISM–AS–ARCHITECTURE: OPENING THE WAY TO K. MALEVICH'S WORK ,1993

• Britannica Encyclopiedia ,britannica.com: Suprematism, obtained from:http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/574754/Suprematism

• The Charnel-House, charnelhouse.org: Suprematism in architecture: Kazimir Malevich and the arkhitektons, obtained from:

http://thecharnelhouse.org/2014/03/12/suprematism-in-architecture-kazimir-malevich-and-the-arkhitektons/

• Art Factory, artfactory.com :MODERN ART TIMELINE PART 1 (1870-1930), obtained from:http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/timelines/modern_art_timeline.htm

• The Art Story, theartstory.org: Suprematism, obtained from:http://www.theartstory.org/movement-suprematism.htm

• YouTube, (2014), Kazamir Malevich’s Suprematism, obtained from:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYy1z0DFxeU

• YouTube, (2012), AH 438 Final Review - Russian Suprematism. Obtained from:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAEEziRVYGQ