Supremus

{{Short description|Russian art group}}

Supremus ({{Langx|ru|Супремус}}; 1915–1916) was a group of Russian avant-garde artists led by the "father" of Suprematism, Kazimir Malevich. It has been described as the first attempt to found the Russian avant-garde movement as an artistic entity within its own historical development.{{Cite book|last=Gourianova|first=Nina|title=The Aesthetics of Anarchy: Art and Ideology in the Early Russian Avant-Garde|publisher=Univ of California Press|year=2012|isbn=978-0-520-26876-0|location=Berkeley, CA|pages=200}}

Supremus conceptualized the artist as one who has freed himself from everything that pre-decided the ideal structure of life and art.{{Cite book|last=Potter|first=Polyxeni|title=Art in Science: Selections from EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES|last2=Prevention|first2=Centers for Disease Control and|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2013|isbn=978-0-19-931571-0|location=New York|language=en}} Malevich projected the Supremus vision onto Cubism, which he believed deconstructs things and completely changes the reference points of art. To support the movement, Malevich established the journal Supremus (initially titled Nul or Nothing), which received contributions from artists and philosophers.{{Cite book|last=Souter|first=Gerry|title=Malevich|publisher=Parkstone International|year=2012|isbn=978-1-78042-926-7|pages=172}} The publication, however, never took off and its first issue was never distributed due to the Russian Revolution.

Members of the group included Aleksandra Ekster,{{Cite book|last=Hodge|first=Susie|title=I Know an Artist: The inspiring connections between the world's greatest artists|publisher=White Lion Publishing|year=2019|isbn=978-1-78131-843-0|pages=168}} Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Ivan Kliun, Ivan Puni, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Nina Genke-Meller, Ksenia Boguslavskaya and others.{{cite book |title=0,10: the last futurist exhibition of painting |last=Boersma |first=Linda S. |year=1994 |publisher=010 Publishers |isbn=90-6450-135-1 |page=72 }}