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Alexander Rodchenko
Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko was a Russian and Soviet 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.
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culture · Russian artist and designer (1891–1956) · painter · photographer · sculptor · architect · graphic designer · designer · typographer · visual artist · graphic artist · furniture designer · also Alexander Rodchenko, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodchenko, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Alexandr Rodchenko, Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Rodčenko, Alexander Rodčenko
Born 23 November 1891 · Died 3 December 1956 · Q312631
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2026· 2 entries
Artnet news: Alexander Rodchenko (1891–1956), Constructivist Composition
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2023· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: Alexander Rodchenko: Museum Series, Portfolio 1: Classic Images, 1924-1936
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2013· 1 entry
actuphoto.com: Alexander Rodchenko « Revolution in Photography » at Vienna
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2012· 1 entry
Observer: At National Museum in Krakow, an Alexander Rodchenko Exhibition Without ‘Communism’
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2008· 1 entry
World Socialist Web Site: Rodchenko: The impact of revolution and counterrevolution
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1956· 1 entry
Died 1956-12-03.
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1942· 1 entry
And produced abstract expressionist works in the 1940s
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1935· 1 entry
The Masters of Soviet Art exhibition was held, but Rodchenko was only allowed to produce work for the exhibit under the command that he publicly denounce his previous formalist works
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1934· 1 entry
Girl with Leica, which followed similar stylistic choices to the artist and photographer's prior work
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1928· 2 entries
And from the Soviet Union entirely in 1929, along with the rise of Joseph Stalin), so did the form by which Soviet art was expected to conform to
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But was expelled three years later, charged with "formalism", an accusation first raised in the pages of Sovetskoe Foto in 1928
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1924· 1 entry
Rodchenko produced what is likely his most famous poster, an advertisement for the Lengiz Publishing House sometimes titled "Books", which features a young woman with a cupped hand shouting "книги по всем отраслям знания
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1923· 1 entry
And from 1924 on, shooting his own photographs as well
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1921· 2 entries
Became a member of the Productivist group, with Stepanova and Aleksei Gan, which advocated the incorporation of art into everyday life
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Rodchenko executed the first true monochrome paintings, first displayed in the 5x5=25 exhibition in Moscow
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1920· 1 entry
Responsible for the reorganization of art schools and museums
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1910· 1 entry
Rodchenko began studies under Nicolai Fechin and Georgii Medvedev at the Kazan Art School, where he met Varvara Stepanova, whom he later married
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1891· 1 entry
Born 1891-11-23.
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