Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Revolutionary Soviet Russia

Towards the end of ww1, the Tsar and royal family deposed and replaced by a provisional government. A marxist communist group formed from the red army.

Red square moscow 1919

El Lizzitsky Abstract Paintings

Kazimir Malevich: The knife Grinder/ Suprematism

Russian propaganda/ usa / britain

Nikolai Kochergin C.1921

Adolf Strakhov 1924 poster of Lennin/ posters of women and equality.

Stroim magazine engineering/building

Gustav Klutsis collages: dynamic, diagonal lines, exciing colourful art

Constructivism is artistic progress and art and propaganda being hand in hand. lenin decreed establishment of v

Aleksandr Rodchenco
posters for advertising, beer, baby dummies, books etc.
magazine edited; Lef JOURNAL

posters for the man with a movie camera film
dziga vertov

Alexandr Rodchenco photography from different angles and a different viewpoint
El Lizzitsky photomontage works

Gustav Klutsis quote: the development of transport is one of the most important challenges for the implementation of the plan 1929

Early 1930 ended this art style because stalin wanted a new form of propaganda.

Russina revolution, russia tried to modernise and make everyone equal, communism rises.

Eizenstein film battleship

1920 in russia was golden age for art. hardship and famine in building communist empire is expressed in the art.

lenin dies, replaced by stalin, all creativity is crushed. different ideas are persecuted. socialist realism is the only ideal
socialist realism art/posters etc.







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