Alexander Rodchenko

thumb|Alexander Rodchenko Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (5 December 1891 – 3 December, 1956 was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of Constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova. Quotes I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue and yellow. I affirmed: it's all over. Basic colors. Every plane is a plane and there is to be no representation. Quote in: 'The Death of Painting'; from the MoMA-website: Interactives: texts Rodchenko is looking back: in 1921 he executed what were arguably some of the first true monochromes (artworks of one color; source, Wikipedia:Rodchenko) [my goal is] to photograph not a factory but the work itself from the most effective point of view.. ..in order to show the grandness of a machine, one should photograph not all of it but give a series of snapshots. Quote, 1930: from Rodchenko lecture at the October group's meeting; as quoted by Margarita Tupitsyn in Chapter 'Fragmentation versus Totality: The Politics of (De)framing', in The great Utopia - The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932; Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1992, p. 486 the issue was not to take 'photo pictures' of the entire object but to make 'photo stills' of characteristic parts of an object One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again. Quoted on Wikipedia:Rodchenko Quotes about Aleksander Rodchenko ..one should not depict an isolated building or a tree which may be very beautiful but which will be.. ..painting, will be aesthetics. Osip Brik, in his essay, 1928; as quoted by Margarita Tupitsyn in Chapter 'Fragmentation versus Totality: The Politics of (De)framing', in The great Utopia - The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932; Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1992, p. 486 Brik criticized Rodchenko's photography for its detachment from the "social demands" of the time and for attempting to resolve purely painterly goals by means of photo language External links Aleksander Rodchenko biography of Alexander Rodchenko, on the MoMA-website paintings and photo's of Rodchenko, on WikiArt Category:1891 births Category:1956 deaths Category:Painters from Russia Category:People from St. Petersburg