Directed study
Friday, December 31, 2004
Miscellaneous Soviet Era Artwork
Rodenchko Rodchenko, Alexander Russian; 1891-1956 Alexander Rodchenko, one of the most versatile Constructivist and Productivist artists to emerge after the Russian Revolution, worked as a painter and graphic designer before turning to photomontage and photography. Throughout the 1920s Rodchenko's work was abstract often to the point of being non-figurative. In the 1930s, with the changing Party guidelines governing artistic practice, he concentrated on sports photography and images of parades and other choreographed movements.
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Note the canton of the flag in the ad. It is an amalgam of the Amercian flag, with the Statue of Liberty, charged with a hammer and another unrecognizable tool. Armand Hammer was an American industrialist who initiated trade with the new Soviet regime in Russia. His family owns the Church & Dwight Co., Inc. who produces Arm and Hammer Baking Soda, among other products. 
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"Beat the Whites with the red wedge" Lisitskij L. M., 1920 b. 1890, Pochinok; d. 1941, Schodnia, near Moscow >El Lissitzky was born Lazar Markovich Lisitskii on November 23, 1890, in Pochinok, in the Russian province of Smolensk, and grew up in Vitebsk. He pursued architectural studies at the Technische Hochschule in Darmstadt, Germany, from 1909 to 1914, when the outbreak of World War I precipitated his return to Russia. In 1916, he received a diploma in engineering and architecture from the Riga Technological University. |
