Rodchenko, Aleksandr (Mikhailovich)
- Rodchenko, Aleksandr (Mikhailovich)
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born Dec. 5, 1891, St. Petersburg, Russia
died Dec. 3, 1956, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.
Russian painter, sculptor, designer, and photographer.
He initially embraced a completely abstract, highly geometric style, using a ruler and compass. His series of black-on-black geometric paintings (1918) was a direct response to Kazimir Malevich's painting
White on White. In 1919, influenced by Vladimir Tatlin, he began to make hanging three-dimensional constructions that were, in
effect,
mobiles. As leader of a wing of
Constructivism that sought to produce works appropriate to workers' daily lives, he renounced easel painting and took up photography and book, furniture, and set design. His innovations in lighting in his photography influenced Sergei Eisenstein. He returned to easel painting in the 1930s.
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Rodchenko, Aleksandr Mikhailovich — ▪ Russian artist born Nov. 23 [Dec. 5, New Style], 1891, St. Petersburg, Russia died Dec. 3, 1956, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R. Soviet painter, sculptor, designer, and photographer, an important member of the Constructivist movement.… … Universalium
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Rodchenko — /rod cheng koh/; Russ. /rddawt chyin keuh/, n. Aleksandr (Mikhailovich) /al ig zan deuhr, zahn , mi kay leuh vich/; Russ. /u lyi ksahn drdd myi khuy leuh vyich/, 1891 1956, Soviet painter, photographer, and designer. * * * … Universalium
Rodchenko — /rod cheng koh/; Russ. /rddawt chyin keuh/, n. Aleksandr (Mikhailovich) /al ig zan deuhr, zahn , mi kay leuh vich/; Russ. /u lyi ksahn drdd myi khuy leuh vyich/, 1891 1956, Soviet painter, photographer, and designer … Useful english dictionary
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