Rodchenko depicted the rapidly changing world of newspapers, cameras, and telephones in new and unexpected ways.
Russian avant-garde
The Constructivists worked to establish a new social role for art and the artist in the communist society of 1920s Soviet Russia.
Constructivism, Part I
Constructivist Kiosks, rubber overshoes, textile designs and posters — all aligned with the ideology of communism and contributing to the creation of a new society.
Constructivism, Part II
The Russian avant-garde adapted European modernist techniques to depict specifically Russian subjects.
Kasimir Malevich and Cubo-Futurism
Early 20th century Russian modernism is filled with contradictions—it engages with some of the most radical trends of European modern art, but reflects on traditional Russian subjects and themes.
Russian Neo-Primitivism: Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov
“I transformed myself in the zero of form . . . I destroyed the ring of the horizon and escaped from the circle of things, from the horizon-ring that confines the artist and the forms of nature.”
Suprematism, Part I: Kasimir Malevich
Malevich believed art would help to usher in a new spiritual era of immateriality.
Suprematism, Part II: El Lissitzky
Tatlin’s Tower symbolizes the utopian aspirations of the communist leaders of Russia’s 1917 October Revolution.
Tatlin’s Tower
Malevich believed that artists, and art, could pave the way to a better future. But would they?
A new world after the Russian Revolution: ...
Stepanova lent her artistic talents to the cause of promoting the ideals of the Soviet Union.
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