Friday, 18 November 2011

Russian Revolution Seminar.

  • Russian October Revolution 1917
  • led by Lenin
  • OCTOBER (Ten Days That Shook The World)
  • 1927 Director: Sergei Eisenstein
  • 1917 – 1921 Russian civil war
Propaganda

1917 – mid 1920s:  Intense artistic experimentation

1917 – mid 1920s:  Intense artistic experimentation

Malevich & Suprematism

El Lissitzky – ‘Beat the Whites with the Red wedge’ 

‘Books’ poster by Rodchenko

The Constructivists:
Aim = ‘…achieving the communistic expression of material structures’.
Lenin New economic Policy 1921

Stepanova & Popova
‘voile and prints have not just become artistically acceptable, they have reached the level of real art, and have brought the rich colours and intense ornamentation of contemporary art to the cities of our immense Republic’ Aranovich, D 1929

We shall complete the plan of great works


Decree 394 (1962)
‘..about industrial equipment and consumer goods quality improvement by artistic engineering methodology implementation’
Summary
  • Revolution was a new opportunity for art to progress
  • Constructivists desire to make art useful 
  • Aim that art should help ‘construct’ new society
  • Use of new techniques and abstract aesthetic
  • By end of 1920s artistic freedom curtailed
  • 1934 Stalin decrees ‘Socialist Realism’ only

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