Jane Angelini

A two part talk with a short break on Russian revolutionary art from 1910 - 1940 By the turn of the 20th century Russia had become a cauldron of radicalism, where Avant Garde artists like Malevich, El Lissitsky, Popova, Tatlin and Rodchenko worked with a remarkable sense of creative urgency, and an aspiration to affect unprecedented socio-political transformation. Their movements – Constructivism and Suprematism were harnessed to the war effort by Lenin, when new tools of propaganda were needed to…