"It was nothing other than a yearning for speed . . . for flight ... which, seeking an outward shape, brought about the birth of the airplane. For the airplane was not contrived in order to carry business letters from Berlin to Moscow, but in obedience to the irresistible drive of this yearning for speed to take on external form."
Suprematism is an early 20th-century art movement focused on the fundamentals of geometry, painted in a limited range of colors. The term suprematism refers to an abstract art based upon "the supremacy of pure artistic feeling" rather than on the figurative depiction of real-life subjects.
"Every object which we see in the museums clearly supports the fact that not one single, solitary thing is really useful, that is, convenient, for otherwise it would not be in a museum! And if it once seemed useful I this is only because nothing more useful was then known ...."
Suprematism"The sensations of sitting, standing, or running are, first and foremost, plastic sensations and they are responsible for the development of corresponding objects of use and largely determine their form. A chair, bed, and table are not matters of utility but rather, the forms taken by plastic sensations.."
Suprematism"Feeling is the determining factor . . and thus art arrives at non-objective representation - at Suprematism.. ..The art of the past which stood, at least ostensibly, in the service of religion and the state, will take on new life in the pure (un-applied) art of Suprematism, which will build up a new world-the world of feeling ...."
Suprematism"I realized that the thing and the concept were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and idea. Is a milk bottle, then, the symbol of milk? Suprematism is the rediscovery of pure art which, in the course of time, had become obscured by the accumulation of things."
Suprematism"Suprematism has opened up new possibilities to creative art, since by virtue of the abandonment of so-called practical considerations a plastic feeling rendered on canvas can be carried over into space. The artist (the painter) is no longer bound to the canvas (the picture plane) and can transfer his compositions from canvas to space."
Suprematism"Even I was gripped by a kind of timidity bordering on fear when it came to leaving the world of will and idea, in which I had lived and worked and in the reality of which I had believed. But a blissful sense of liberating non-objectivity drew me forth into the desert, where nothing is real except feeling ... and so feeling became the substance of my life. This was no empty square which I had exhibited but rather the feeling of non-objectivity."
Suprematism