Aleksandr rodchenko

The Soviet avant-garde understood itself to be fashioning a new world.

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 /…

Aleksandr Rodchenko, Cover design for the joual Lef (with a portrait of Osip Brik), 1924. Courtesy of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.

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…

Novyi lef (New left) was the second journal of the Left Front of the Arts, an association of artists, designers, writers, and other creative workers born out of the Russian Revolution. The journal was published monthly in 1927 and 1928 by Gosizdat, the Soviet state publishing house. Aleksandr Rodchenko designed its twenty-four issues, the first of which were edited by Vladimir Mayakovsky, who was followed in that role by Sergei Tretyakov. Novyi lef succeeded Lef, the Left Front of the Arts’s…

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodchenko was a Russian painter, sculptor, designer, and photographer who was a dedicated leader of the Constructivist movement.

Alexandr Rodchenko was a Russian Constructivist artist, who experimented throughout his career with form, material and composoition. I am particularly inspired by his works from 1921, entitled R…

Novyi Lef cover designed by Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian Constructivist 1928.

Aleksandr Rodchenko. Columns of the Museum of the Revolution. 1926. Gelatin silver print. 11 5/16 × 7 1/8" (28.7 × 18.1 cm). Gift of the Rodchenko Family. 784.1998. Photography