#constructivist

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Soviet Photo Magazine c.1927

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Stenberg Brothers, Cafe Fanconi, 1927

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Finn Mickelborg (1932-2007) — Composition  [oil on canvas, 1996]

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“Baby Dummies” created by Alexander Rodchenko and Vladimir Mayakovsky in 1923, was a unique propaganda poster in the style of an advertisement for dummies for children. Rodchenko, a Russian artist, and Mayakovsky, a Russian and futurist poet, worked together through 1923–28 during the recovery of the Soviet Republic after WW1 and the civil war.

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Victory Drummer. Susan Marie Shultz. 2022.

Beat the squares with the tramp of rebels!

Higher, rangers of haughty heads!

We'll wash the world with a second deluge,

Now’s the hour whose coming it dreads.

Too slow, the wagon of years,

The oxen of days — too glum.

Our god is the god of speed,

Our heart — our battle drum.

Is there a gold diviner than ours/

What wasp of a bullet us can sting?

Songs are our weapons, our power of powers,

Our gold — our voices — just hear us sing!

Meadow, lie green on the earth!

With silk our days for us line!

Rainbow, give color and girth

To the fleet-foot steeds of time.

The heavens grudge us their starry glamour.

Bah! Without it our songs can thrive.

Hey there, Ursus Major, clamour

For us to be taken to heaven alive!

Sing, of delight drink deep,

Drain spring by cups, not by thimbles.

Heart step up your beat!

Our breasts be the brass of cymbals.

- Mayakovsky (1917)