Aleksandr Rodchenko

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Aleksandr Rodchenko

• Presented by,
• Dave Frank
• 06 April 2004

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Background

• Born in St. Petersburg in 1891
• Moved with his family to Zazan to study art from
  1910 to 1914
• Went to Moscow to study one more year of art

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Art that Followed His Schooling

• He was a part of the Russian avant-garde
• He achieved breakthroughs in painting, sculpture,
  poster painting, textile designing, and
  photography
• His artwork can be summed up as continual
  experimentation

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Follower of Contructivism

• After the Revolution he was one of the central
  figures in Russian art
• Took lead role in the Contructivist movement
  which believed that art could bring about social
  change

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Soviet Opposition to Constructivism

• This art form based on Cubism and Futurism was
  denounced by the Russian government
• The short lived art form was now being stopped by
  Stalin and a more propagandistic aesthetic
  replaced it

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Lef Magizine

• Between 1923 and 1928 Rodchenko was involved in
  the Lef Magazine
• The Soviet Union would not support his art so he
  was told to stop taking photos for the magazine
  and to stick to purely documentary photographs

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End of His Career

• He could not take the harsh critics and the
  restrictions of Stalin
• Spent the rest of his life in isolation
• Died in Moscow in 1956

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Chauffeur1933
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Pioneer1930
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On the telephone1928
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The poet Vladimir Mayakovsky1924
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Gathering for the demonstrationin the courtyard
of the VChUTEMAS1928