Russian constructivism

Inspired by the Communist revolution in Russia, artists like Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko set out to create a new, mass-produced art.

This booklet describes the Russian history of graphic design that was expressed through the Constructivism movement. In this booklet you will find basic ideas and goals that artists tried to archive during the time of Constructivism by underlying its infl…

In New York summer 1998 on a visit to MOMA, was introduced to the work of Alexander Rodchenko for the first time “in the flesh” having witnessed so many pieces influenced by his style /…

Soviet matchbox celebrating Belka and Strelka, two dogs from their space program.

Russian Constructivism

Russian Constructivism

Alexandr Rodchenko started out as a painter & sculptor but turned out to be a very skilled graphic designer & photographer too. A versatile artist. He studied at the academy of Kazan from 1…

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The Bolsheviks understood the value of the new art of cinema, even Vladimir Lenin himself considered that it is “the most important of the a...

For my constructivist poster, I decided to use a charity run by someone I know called Baby Tree Projects. They build schools in poor areas of Cambodia. For inspiration, I looked at all the original…

The Monument to the Third International was a grand un-built monumental building. It was planned to be erected in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, as the headq…

Alexander Rodchenko

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David Michael Newstead Gustav Klutsis was a Latvian artist who began his career in 1912 and his work was greatly influenced by events throughout the early Twentieth Century. Wars, revolution, and p…

Lissitzky El Proun 1 - El Lissitzky - Monoskop

Bauhaus The Bauhaus was a movement that began in 1919 when Walter Gropius founded a school with a vision of connecting the gap between art and industry by combining crafts and fine arts. Prior to t…