Suprematism vs. Formalism

I find this art and literature movement interesting. To focus on something as if it had no context, to see it as a simply an object in space with out time or place is very difficult to perceive. It is interesting to see this movement when compared to Supermatism in that they look very alike in their clean lines and simple forms, but they imply completely different things, thereby resulting in similarly opposed art movements. Piet Mondrian is listed as both a formalist and part of the De Stijl movement in Germany. My question is whether or not formalism and De Stijl are related or even the same? Or perhaps Mondrian simply bridged the two movements successfully. Either way his use of primary colors is clearly formalist and the displacement of his piece (it is neither of this world nor apart from it) is as well. The search for the origin of a piece is another issue at the heart of formalism, or the search for the origin of the meaning behind a piece. This idea is closely related to the idea of letting the object exist on its own, outside of preconceived notions because the thought originated long ago in a vacuum, and it is this idea of creating something from nothingness that has pervaded both formalism and suprematism.