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 "Red
Square" (1913)
Working in parallel, Malevich
also created a system of abstract painting that he would call
suprematism. Unlike cubism and rayonnism, suprematism did not
gradually evolve from figurative painting. Rather, it began abruptly
with the production of stark, geometrically-organized canvases
like "Red Square" (1913). Of this style, Malevich said in his
treatise "From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Painterly
Realism"; "I have transformed myself in the zero of form and have
fished myself out of the rubbishy slough of academic art.. I have
destroyed the ring of the horizon and got out of the circle of
objects, the horizon ring that has imprisoned the artist and the
forms of nature." (For a fuller text, see Bowlt 116-135) Malevich's
suprematism was already apparent in his designs for the Futurist
opera Victory Over
the Sun, 1913.
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