constructivism
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The Staircase (1930)Woman with a child against the stern geometry
Camera position – innovative, yet balanced and flowing composition
PHOTOGRAPHY
Dance. An Objectless Composition (1915)No recognizable dancer can be seen
Only a divine spark of dance comes across
FUTURIST PAINTING
Books (The Advertisement Poster for the LengizPublishing House) (1924)
He updated Russian advertising, using geometric compositions and strident(harsh) colors to trumpet modernity
PHOTOMONTAGE
Maquette for the Advertisement of the Red October Bisquittes (1923)
Mayakovsky-Rodchenko: Advertising Constructors
DESIGN (work for Russian industry)
Believed that the artist could be an agent for change, which he summarized to “goal-oriented creation”
Began his career in illustrating children books, a teacher for much of his career and an innovator
Although often highly abstract and theoretical, Lissitzky's work was able speak to the prevailing political discourse of his native Russia, and then the nascent Soviet Union
His Proun series of two-dimensional Suprematist paintings sought to combine architecture and three-dimensional space with traditional, albeit abstract, two-dimensional imagery.
He was important in exporting Constructivist ideas to Germany
El Lissitzky in a self-portrait (1914)
The Runner (1930)The segmented photo mimics the effect of perceiving objects in motion
PHOTOMONTAGE
Proun 99 (1925)An effort to create three-dimensional environments in which
two-dimensional shapes could exist in direct contrast to the space
SUPERMATISM
Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (1919)Red wedge – Bolsheviks
White circle – Kerensky forces
LITHOGRAPHY
USSR, The Russian exhibition poster (1929)
Equality of the sexes
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Vladimir Tatlin,Corner Counter-Relief (1914)
Sculpture with spatial qualities made of Iron, copper, wood and strings
El LissitzskyProun Room (1923)
Geometric Proun compositions into a room environment
Naum Gabo,Head No. 2 (1916)
Stereometric construction – Form through space rather than mass
Lyubov Popova,Textile Design (1924)
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Agitprop poster (1924)"Want it? Join“
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