Summery: Alexander Rodchenko

by Olga Sviblova  (Editor), Varvara Rodchenko  (Editor), Alexander Rodchenko (Artist)

Alexander Rodchenko is a CCCP photographer who started his formal training as a painter and later on showcase his ability on photomontage before his photography work. He is one of the leading artist who started the constructivism movement, where the picture must have their reason, not only a “feeling”.

In his ideology, he believe the picture should be something people can take action apron, and therefore photo should not lie.

 

Early Work of Painting

Dance (1915)

Alexander Rodchenko first begins his formal training.

 

 

Construction NO.127 (1920)

The early sign of constructivism, early influence in photomontage (graphic design)

A reflection on industrial society and urban space,

 

Constructivism

An art movement goes on alongside with the Bolsheviks movement.

Where art is no longer only about “looking nice” or only about expressing feeling, but more about a reflection on the industrial world and what movement they can do to the world.

 

Pattern Within World

Pattern with shadows

Foreshortening

Object is closer than they are.

 

 

 

 

“Do not lie!

Photograph and be photographed!

crystallize man not by the “synthetic” Portrait,

but by many snapshots taken at different times and in different conditions.

Value all that is real and contemporary.

And we shall be real, not playing human being. ”

-Alexander Rodchenko 1928