suprematism
- n a geometric abstractionist movement originated by Kazimir Malevich in Russia that influenced constructivism
- One-as its name, suprematism, indicatestried to transcend the material world.
- The artists, however, took it as a stamp of approval for cubo-futurism, suprematism, constructivism and the other isms that the ferment of Western art had helped set off.
- In the 1960s and '70s, Stenberg's work was a prolonged meditation on constructivism and suprematism, the chief movements of the "classical" Russian avant-garde in the years just .