Which Russian artist founded the Suprematism movement?

Which Russian artist founded the Suprematism movement? Kazimir Malevich is the answer. He developed Suprematism in the 1910s as a radical form of non-objective art centered on pure geometric forms and the supremacy of artistic feeling over recognizable subjects.

Malevich’s breakthrough came during the Russian avant-garde’s experiments with Cubism and Futurism. He presented early Suprematist works at the 1915 Last Futurist Exhibition 0,10 in Petrograd, where his Black Square became the movement’s defining image. He later explained its ideas in writings including From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism and The Non-Objective World.

Suprematist compositions often use squares, circles, rectangles, and crosses floating against contrasting grounds. Alexander Rodchenko and Vladimir Tatlin were major Russian avant-garde figures, but they are associated primarily with Constructivism rather than Suprematism. Wassily Kandinsky also pioneered abstraction, yet he did not found this movement.