Rodchenko

Painting, Design, Photography, Film, TheatreBorn in St. PetersburgWent to the School of Art in Kazan

Rodchenko

Painting, Design, Photography, Film, TheatreBorn in St. PetersburgWent to the School of Art in Kazan&EL

LISSITZKY

ALEXANDER

RODCHENKO

Rodchenko

Painting, Design, Photography, Film, TheatreBorn in St. PetersburgWent to the School of Art in Kazan

RODCHENKO

Rodchenko’s work highly influenced 20th Century designers

Rodchenko

Painting, Design, Photography, Film, TheatreBorn in St. PetersburgWent to the School of Art in Kazan

LISSITZKY

Lissitzky’s work highly influenced the Bauhaus & Constructivist movements.

SuprematismArt movement focused on basic geo-metric forms; circles, squares, lines,

and rectangles.

Painted in a limited range of colors.

Founded in Russia by Kazimir Malevich around 1913.

“The supremacy of pure artistic feeling.”

Constructivism“Constructivists blurred the line

betwen fine and applied art.”

“The idea that artists should seize the tools of industry and become engineers

of a new sensibility established a powerful foundation for applied art,

including graphic design.”

Basically, it was in favor of art as a practice for social

purposes.

ConnectionBoth them and their wives were

photographers.

Commissioned by the publish-ing-house Izogiz to take photographs

of the White Sea-Baltic Canal.

Both apart of the Suprematism & Constructivism movement.

Both are very versitile; have many different artistic talents.

Rodchenko/Lissitzky

Book by Victor Margolin, focusing on them & another artist.

“Examines the way these three artists negotiated the changing rela-tions between their social ideas and the political realities they con-fronted.”

RodchenkoKnow for Painting, Design, Photography,

Film, & Theatre

Born in St. Petersburg, 1891Went to the School of Art in Kazan

There he met his wife, Varvara Stepanova

The couple moved to Moscow in 1916.Both became involved in an artist trade union. Rodchenko became secretary of the Young Federation club in late 1917.

They didn’t see art as just a profession, but mostly importance of the creativity

itself. “Not painting but creativity

is of significance.”

RodchenkoAfter that, he and his wife participated in

exhibitions together, often filling entire rooms with their works.

In 1920, the Bolshevik governemtn appointed him the Director of the

Museum Bureau & Purchasing Fund.

There he was responsible for overhauling the art schools and museums.

From 1920 to 1930 he taught at the Higher Technical-Artistic Studios.

RodchenkoHis painting and graphic work is highly

technologically orientated.

The paintings are very unconventional; brush-strokes or colors run into

eachother. Rodchenko’s paintings look more like “manufactured” objects.

Rodchenko

Initially starting out as a painter, Rodchenko later remarked that painting

to be dead because light weight cameras had been invented.

Having a camera that didn’t need to be held at the waste, allowed Rodchenko

to photograph different angles that had never been seen before.

Rodchenko utilized a 35 mm Leica camera.

Leica Camera

SmallLight WeightEasy to Use

“Novyi LEF” 1928Uses photography at unsual angles, overall untraditional.

LISSITZKYKnow for Design, Photography, &

Typography

Born in Polschinok, 1890Graduated for Architecture, worked as

assistant to architects

“Wanderings through Europe, including Paris, I teach myself about the fine arts. I cover more than 1200 km in Italy on foot - making sketches and studying.”

In 1919, he was invited to be professor of Architecture and the Graphic Arts at

Vitebsk Art Labour Cooperative.

LISSITZKYDesigned a book in 1923 called,

“Dlja golossa.”Recognized as the starting-point of a

new kind of typography.

In 1926, he begins his “most important work as an artist:

the creation of exhibitions.”

Displays a room of non-objective art with the committe of the International

Art Exhibition in Dresden.

Into the late thirties he retained his reputation as “the master of exhibition art and management into late thirties.”

“Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge,” 1920

A work done about the Russian Civil War, the red wedge is a symbol of the bolsheviks, who are defeating their opponents, the White movement.

“The Isms of Art,” 1925

Designed and coedited, this is a trilingual book present-ing a seminal decade’s succession of modern movements through the work of representative artists.

One of his “Proun” paintings; abstract, geometric.

Citations“Rodchenko,” German Karginov, 1979

“Rodchenko, Stepanova,” Aleksandr N. Lavrent’yev & Angela Volker, 1991

“El Lissitzky,” Galerie Gmurzunska, 1976

“Graphic Design History,” Johanna Drucker & Emily McVarish, 2009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprema-tism