key terms:
russian revolutionvladimir mayakovsky: ROSTA window posters
vladimir tatlin
alexander rodchenko & varara stepanova
el lissitzky: PROUNS- projects for the establishment of a new art
photomontage
the stenberg brothers
- russian revolution: 1917
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| vladimir lenin |
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| vladimir lenin speaking to the crowd |
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| bolshevik party coming together under lenin to overthrow the tsar |
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| ROSTA (state news agency) window poster stenciled rudimentary efforts printed by state telegraph agency supported red army silhouettes |
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| "what you put in, you'll get out" |
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| vladimir tatlin was a sculptor but gave it up bc it was "selfish" became industrial designer |
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| rodchenko gave up painting for graphic design & photojournalism |
- ^these leaders advanced core russian constructivism
-art was to serve a new communist society
-against art for art's sake
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| el lissitzky dissemination of ideas bc he went to school in germany sees possibility for a new order/a new way forward wanted to forge unity btwn art & technology |
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| el lissitzky pruons: new approach 1920 |
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| el lissitzky |
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| el lissitzky makes it 3D to try to engage more people painting + architecture transformed whole room into a proun |
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| beat the whites w the red wedge- el lissitzky 1919 proun poster- communism vs. government/establishment iconic work of russian constructivism rejection of art for art's sake |
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| photomontage poster for pelikan ink- el lissitzky modern using experimental techniques |
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| book cover for the "-isms of art"- el lissitzky |
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| book cover for poet- el lissitzky sans serif typography |
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| rodchenko photomontage |
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| left front of the arts- rodchenko journal covers |
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| rodchenko photomontage bold typography 1928 |
jagged angles
contrasts
abstract uses of light
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| rodchenko exploration of odd, aggressive angles bird's' eye view |
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| steps- rodchenko stark contrast of black & white |
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| rodchenko |
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| diver- rodchenko |
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| rodchenko immediately readable woman hollering about books |
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| pacifier poster- rodchenko |
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| klutsis poster inciting proletariats to vote in election of soviets dynamic angle of print |
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| rodchenko w stepanova (wife & collaborator) |
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| stepanova |
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| stepanova made clothing to reach even more people bold, impactful colors of constructivism avant-garde |
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| stenberg brothers created movie posters members of avant-garde circles founded society of like-minded young artists would take scraps of other art to put in their posters to make it a collective work |
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| stenberg brothers |
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| stenberg brothers |
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| stenberg brothers |
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| stenberg brothers reject fine art, embraced mass produced posters |
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| stenberg brothers |
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| sporting poster- klutsis |





































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