ART HIS 40C Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Alexander Rodchenko, Plywood, Cubism
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Lecture 18: modernism 2 fragments and wholes. Avant-garde seizing control starting over, a new culture. Popova, the traveler, 1915, oil on canvas: facets from cubism, draw viewer to awareness of painting"s construction. Popova, painterly architechtonic, 1918, oil on canvas: nikolai tarbukin: material or medium and the construction , material colors, sounds, words, etc. Popova"s title how something is assembled oil application of how it"s placed on canvas each plane integral distinguishable parts: together form a compositional. 12, c. 1920, plywood, partially painted with aluminum paint, wire creates different planes with 2d stencils constant motion showcase material and process. El lissitzky, beat the whites with the red wedge, c. 1919 abstract shapes for political message red bolsheviks: white loyal to government acts as propaganda. Gustav klucis, dynamic city, 1919 photographs and various materials on paper aware of material qualities awareness of edges overlapping pieces from a larger whole.
