Lissitzky, Rodchenko by Jordan Geisert

Rodchenko Painting, Design, Photography, Film, Theatre Born in St. Petersburg Went to the School of Art in Kazan

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Rodchenko

Painting, Design, Photography, EL Film, Theatre Born in St. Petersburg Went to the School of Art in Kazan

LISSITZKY ALEXANDER

RODCHENKO

Rodchenko

RODCHENKO

Painting, Design, Photography, Film, Theatre Born in St. Petersburg Went to the School of Art in Kazan

Rodchenko’s work highly influenced 20th Century designers

Rodchenko

LISSITZKY

Painting, Design, Photography, Film, Theatre Born in St. Petersburg Went to the School of Art in Kazan

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

Suprematism Art movement focused on basic geometric 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.

Connection Both them and their wives were photographers.

Commissioned by the publishing-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 relations between their social ideas and the political realities they confronted.�

Rodchenko Know for Painting, Design, Photography, Film, & Theatre Born in St. Petersburg, 1891 Went 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.”

Rodchenko After 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.

Rodchenko His 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

Small Light Weight Easy to Use

“Novyi LEF� 1928

Uses photography at unsual angles, overall untraditional.

LISSITZKY Know for Design, Photography, & Typography Born in Polschinok, 1890 Graduated 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.

LISSITZKY Designed 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 presenting 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/Suprematism