#lissitsky

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A pouncing tiger. Bentsyion Raskin. Di hun vas gevolt hobn a kam. [The Hen Who Wanted a Comb]. Illustrated by El Lissitsky. Kiev: Yidisher Folks-Farlag, 1919.

(via Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University, Tigers Virtual Exhibit)

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A few of Lissitsky’s ‘Prouns’ 

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Regular readers will know that I like, appreciate and share public art.  I often wonder whether artists know how their artworks affect people after all the critics have been to visit at the time of unveiling.  This particular art installation in Schwalbach am Taunus, Germany is now 10 years old.  Prof Gerhard Schweizer from Darmstadt created this avenue of concrete blocks to commemorate El Lissitsky.  The Russian artist had studied in Darmstadt in the early 1900’s followed by stints with Marc Chagall in Vitebsk.  He died in 1941 having influenced the Bauhaus and constructivist movements and having artwork featured in Dadaist publications.

The installation takes the form of an avenue of concrete blocks into which text has been inscribed.  As you walk along the avenue perspective changes how the blocks appear and the text becomes and un-becomes aligned to be readable.  Plaques in the ground accompany the concrete blocks and standing on them you can read the same text on the plaque and the concrete blocks.

I have translated the German text into English in the captions to the pictures to the best of my abilities.  I think it is the German version of this quote I found on http://www.azquotes.com “The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world – it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people.”

1 Every shape is the solidified momentary image of a process

2 Every shape is the solidified momentary image of a process

3 Therefore the artwork is a stop off point of the creation

4 Therefore the artwork is a stop off point of the creation

5 And not the solidified end point

6 And not the solidified end point

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El Lissitsky Allee Regular readers will know that I like, appreciate and share public art.  I often wonder whether artists know how their artworks affect people after all the critics have been to visit at the time of unveiling.  

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El Lissitzky Proun Room 1923 (reconstructed 1971) 'Proun' is a term coined by Russian Suprematist artist El Lissitzky in the early part of the twentieth century. 'Proun' does not have an exact definition, though Lissitzky stated that it was "the station where one changes from painting to architecture" or according to Wikipedia 'exploration of the visual language of suprematism with spatial elements'. The Proun works preoccupied him throughout most of his career and became formative in the development of the Utopian architectural projects he took up in later life. In Proun Room (or Prounenraum) the artist, designer and typographer, given a small room in which to display his work,  rendered the ideas he had explored in 2 dimensions into 3. Navigating and circumscribing the walls with wooden constructions, Lissitzky plays with the perspectives and planar shifts we find in his drawings and prints throughout the room. The work remains a prototype for the installation art that would come later in the century. http://openfileblog.blogspot.ru/2011/12/el-lissitzky-proun-room.html

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Kasimir Malevich and Lazar Lissitsky - Suprematism, 1918

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Then say to all: this is what will come to pass in the future, a radiant and beautiful future. Have love for it, strive toward it, work on behalf of it, bring it ever nearer, bear what you can from it into your present life. The more you can carry from that future into your present life, the more your life will be radiant and good, the richer it will be in happiness and pleasure.

Chernyshevskii, What is to be Done?

Image: El Lissitsky, New Man

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Les origines du Graphisme Moderniste en 30 secondes

Minji Aye Hong est une jeune graphiste coréenne diplômée en motion design de la School of Visual Arts de New York. Elle réalise, au cours d'un de ses projets d'études, une animation introduisant un bref historique du design graphique du début du XXe siècle. L'ensemble a été réalisé avec After Effects.