Nikolai Suetin

Nikolai Suetin

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Nikolai Suetin (Russian: Николай Суетин, 1897 – 1954) was a Russian Suprematist artist. He worked as a graphic artist, a designer, and a ceramics painter. Suetin studied at the Vitebsk Higher Institute of Art, (1918-1922) under Kazimir Malevich, founder of Suprematism, an early abstract art movement which developed a style based on ‘non objective’ geometric … Read more

Suprematism

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Suprematism (Russian: Супремати́зм) is an art movement, focused on basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines, and rectangles, painted in a limited range of colors. It was founded by Kazimir Malevich in Russia, around 1913, and announced in Malevich’s 1915 exhibition, The Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0.10, in St. Petersburg, where he, alongside … Read more