The Russian Avant Garde and the Bolshevik Revolution Essay -- Art Russ

The Russian Avant Garde and the Bolshevik RevolutionThe Russian Avant Garde began in Russia in around 1915 It was the year that Malevich revealed his Suprematist compositions that reduced painting to total abstraction. and rid the pictures of any fibre whatsoever to the visual world. He is credited with being the first mechanic to do this that is, forsake the visual world for a world of native feeling and sensation. This was the first movement originated by Russians and the birth of several other Avant Garde movements. Probably the most popular piece at his 1915 exhibition was murky SQUARE (real name suprematist composition. Its basically a pitch-dark squ are off on a slightly larger white square that forms a border around it. It was hung in the exhibition in the elbow room an icon would be hung in a peasants ingleside ie top corner of the room. Malevich saw Suprematism as representing a glowing for space, an impulse to break free from the globe of the earth. It a spirit, a otherworldliness that went beyond anything before it. Among Malevichs students and contemporaries were such names as El Lissitzsky, Alexsandr Rodchenko and Vladimir Tatlin who were, of course, to lead the Constructivist movement which started in the same year as Malevichs exhibition. Tatlin had returned from studying art in Paris in 1913 where he had seen a series of relief constructions by Picasso. Tatlin became very interested in form and message rather than representation and so he himself make a series of constructions. They were in the same vein as Picasso, just they were framed within a space and jutted out of the picture matte into the space of the observer. They created a lot of interest and he coined the term Constructivism. Tatlin and Malevich, who had been ... ...er had a base. A few caved in and became correct thinkers. A few take flight to other countries in Europe. Some stayed in Europe and some end up in America. They have developed and grown. Along with Gabo a nd Rothko and Kandinsky and numerous others, they are still having a profound influence on art. There were many an(prenominal) parallels amid the Russian Avant Garde and the two revolutions in 1915. The big difference between them in 2001, is that the art survives and grows stronger while the other is seen for what it is, a pathetic impostor despotism run, for a lot of years by a sociopathic mortophile. BIBLIOGRAPHY Russian Constructivism. Christina Lodder. Yale University Press. 1983.Art Spoke. Robert Atkins. Abbeville Press. 1993.Art and Revolution. John Berger. Pantheon Books. 1969.The Struggle for Utopia. Victor Margolin. University of stops Press. 1997.