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| proun 4b- el lissitzky c. 1920 could flip it any way & would still look similar |
- proun demonstrated lissitzky's ability to organize 2-D & 3-D abstract figures in compositions of great purity & balance while avoiding symmetry
- he brought prouns into 3-D
-uses ready made materials
-assembled according to faktura logic
-emerged in russia at outbreak of revolution
-utopian visions of new society
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| selection of materials: iron, stucco, glass, asphalt- vladimir tatlin 1914 3-dimensional construction |
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| monument to the third international- tatlin 1920 idea for a headquarter but was not built important as a characteristic utopian communist art project to unite art w technology paraded through the streets |
- w tatlin & rodchenko: aesthetics used as a tool to reconnect w the real
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| oval hanging construction no. 12- aleksandr rodchenko 1920 transparent structure |
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| karl loganson spatial cross series/study in balance c. 1921 metal rods + rope |
- during WWI, russian revolution- revolutionized artists & their work as they imagined their work as literal building blocks of a new society
- russian revolution: overthrew czarist rule
productivism:
rodchenko:
-studied w tatlin & malevich
-member of Moscow Institute of Artistic Culture
-successful in advertising
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| pure red color, pure yellow color, pure blue color- rodchenko 1921 reduced painting to logic every plane is a plane no more representation |
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| rodchenko immediately readable woman hollering about books
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- wanted to move from "easelism" to production- idea that artists should enter the factory --> factory clothing designed for him
- trying to make socialist objects for a socialist society- referred to objects they made as comrades
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| design for workers' club- rodchenko part of soviet presentation at world's fair in paris 1925 to show off best products of their industry geometricism- holdover from russian supremativism rationality, economy, collective action workers' leisure time imagined as intellectual & collective |
- 1920: Higher artistic & technical workshop (state art & tech school) set up to train artists to work in industry/factories; trained to fuse artistic skills w industrial knowledge
empowerment of women --> varvara stepanova:
-textile designs
-production & sports clothing
-promotes ideas of conformity
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| stepanova made clothing to reach even more people bold, impactful colors of constructivism avant-garde |
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| dress designs- lyubov popova 1923-24 |
soviet avant-garde vs. socialist realism
-avant-garde moment comes to an end under rule of stalin who rejects it & imposes socialism
-return to realism & rejection of modernist aesthetics
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