Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 2: Modern Era (1850–1949)

1913

Malevich Begins Developing Suprematism

Event · Europe

Malevich Begins Developing Suprematism

One of the key radical movements in modern art, abstraction and digital generative art history, Kazimir Malevich’s use of geometric forms and limited colors in Suprematism has had a profound impact on art history. Malevich believed that Suprematism was “the culmination (in Russia at least) of Futurism’s interest in dynamism and Cubism’s reduced geometric forms.” Suprematism greatly influenced contemporary generative art’s abstract geometric aesthetic, particularly early computer art. Malevich would not display the work he was creating during this period until 1915.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

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Kazimir Malevich

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Suprematism

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abstraction, color, Cubism, Futurism, geometry, Suprematism
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