Russian avant-garde

years he attended Kazan School of Art. He and a fellow student ventured to Moscow in 1915 to further their art work and vision. It was here where he began to study drawing, painting, and art history at Stroganov University and was influenced by the avant-garde movement as well as the Futurists of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. It was in the same year that he became the secretary for the Professional Union for Artists-Painters. Coming from a working class family,

I was born to a single mother who was chronically ill for the first 3 years of my life, she recovered and worked full time for the rest of my childhood, leaving my sister and I to pretty much raise our selves. I have always had trouble in working out where I belong in this world and where home is. I left England for New Zealand ten years ago trying to find my place on this planet, but I still feel lost. I have chosen to work with artists’ books because they occupy a liminal space in the art world

Vertov , Manifesto The Council of Three (1923) The innovative theories and filmmaking techniques of Dziga Vertov revolutionized the way films are made today. Man With a Movie Camera (1929), a documentary that represented the peak of the Soviet avant-garde film movement in the twenties, displayed techniques in montage, creative camera angles, rich imagery, but most importantly

Western Influence on Chinese Music China has long been the cultural hub of Asia, and has had the longest amount of contact of any Asian country with other Western countries. Ever since the Silk Road was established, China has been trading with other Western countries and exchanging aspects of their cultures with one another. One of these aspects is music. But how exactly has Western music influenced Chinese music? In order to understand this, we must look at the history of Western encounters

Introduction Vsevolod Emielevich Meyerhold, considered one of 20th century greatest theatrical innovators, was born on February 10, 1874 in the Russian town of Penza. He was originally born into a Lutheran German-Jewish family with the name Karl Theodore Kasmir Meyergold. In 1895 he took the name Vsevolod Emievich Meyerhold after converting to the Russian Orthourdox Church. Meyerhold studied Law at Moscow University for two terms. He became fascinated with the art of theatre and as his interest

broken into several big movements that developed certain style and culture, and some of them had several small movements within them. Modern movement is an example of such a movement and it was split into several smaller ones (De Stijl, Bauhaus, Russian Constructivism or Italian Futurism are only few examples). Just like during previous ones, Modern Movement has its founders, key designers and designs, and characteristics. In this essay we will talk about origins of De Stijl, its key designers, designs

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To those of us in the west, Russian realism is most commonly associated with the literary movement that took place in the late 19th-century lead by authors such as Leo Tolstoy, and philosopher Fyodor Dostoevsky. A defining feature of the realist literary movement was the examination and description of everyday life, this characteristic carried over into the visual arts of the era literary figures influencing and intermingling with Russian realist painters. Inspired by the social and economic disparity

Man with The Movie Camera: Shot Change constructs a New Perspective Avant Garde Film Midterm 11395 Question #4      Time was used by Vertov as an important factor in editing as well as in the daily lives of humans.      With editing he utilized the essence of time to his advantage. Vertov wanted a certain rhythm of cuts to exist in the movie. He desired a choppy effect. The cameras, themselves, were supposed to produce a rithym in movements, too

of the socialist system. The movement was an important influence on graphic design techniques. His art was simplified to shapes and colors. His entire career was based on the belief that artists were an agent for change. When he took a job as the Russian cultural ambassador in