Soviet 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…

Poster dedicated to Alexander Rodchenko, one of the representatives of the Russian Avant-Garde style. April 2016 Rebranding the Russian Avant-Garde,International Poster Exhibition,College of San Mateo Library, San Mateo CA

Russian constructivism appears

A treasure trove from the ultimate age of experimentation – between the world wars – shows a man mid-parachute jump, a woman clutching her Leica, and limbs dismantling before your very eyes

Erich Buchholz occupied a central place in the international avant-garde in Berlin in the 1920s. His earliest prints are influenced by the work of the German Expressionists, particularly Franz Marc. In the period immediately after the First World War his ...

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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…

Soviet Avant Garde book cover, [A.F. Sofronova]. N. Tarabukin. Ot mol'berta k mashine. From Easel to Machine. Rabotnik prosveshcheniia. Manifesto of Constructivism written in 1922 that traced the history of modern art from the easel to the machine. Moscow. 1923. (!Productive Arts!)