russian avant garde

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…

Two Figures on Red, 1920. Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958) was Russian painter and designer of Lithuanian birth. She trained at the Kazan’ School of Art (c. 1910–11) where she met Aleksandr Rodchenko, whom she subsequently married. In 1921, together with Aleksei Gan, Rodchenko and Stepanova formed the first Working Group of Constructivists, which rejected fine art in favour of graphic design, photography, posters, and political propaganda.

One of ten lithographs from El Lissitzky’s 1923 portfolio that pays tribute to a 1920 restaging of the avant-garde Cubo-Futurist opera “Victory Over the Sun” Installation view of “A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of he Russian Avant-Garde” The Museum of Modern Art New York, New York December 3, 2016 – March 12, 2017

The works of this great artist, photographer, and designer grace probably every 20th-century art museum in the world.

There had been hopes German trial would help crack down on market many fear is awash with fakes

In a spate of recent incidents, experts have questioned the authenticity of works said to have been painted by the Russian masters of the period.

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

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...

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