Vkhutemas
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Vkhutemas was the Russian state art and technical school founded in 1920 in Moscow, replacing the Moscow Svomas.
Architecture at Vkhutemas, book cover by El Lissitzky, 1927
The former Vkhutemas building
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Constructivism (art)
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Constructivism is an early twentieth-century art movement founded in 1915 by Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko. Abstract and austere, constructivist art aimed to reflect modern industrial societ
Vkhutemas
…in printing, textiles, ceramics, woodworking, and metalworking. Vkhutemas was a center for three major movements in avant garde art and architecture: constructivism, rationalism, and suprematism. In the workshops, the faculty and students transformed attitudes to art and reality with the use of precise geometry…
El Lissitzky's poster Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (1919)
The cover of Konstruktivizm by Aleksei Gan, 1922
Vladimir Tatlin next to a model of Tatlin's Tower, 1920
Agitprop poster by Vladimir Mayakovsky titled: "Want it? Join" "1. You want to overcome cold?2. You want to overcome hunger?3. You want to eat? 4. You want to drink?Hasten to join shock brigades of exemplary labor!"