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Aleksander Rodchenko

1891–1956

In Tate Britain

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2 artworks by Aleksander Rodchenko
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Biography

Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (Russian: Александр Михайлович Родченко; 5 December [O.S. 23 November] 1891 – 3 December 1956) was a Russian and Soviet artist, sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova.

Rodchenko was one of the most versatile constructivist and productivist artists to emerge after the Russian Revolution. He worked as a painter and graphic designer before turning to photomontage and photography. His photography was socially engaged, formally innovative, and opposed to a painterly aesthetic. Concerned with the need for analytical-documentary photo series, he often shot his subjects from odd angles—usually high above or down below—to shock the viewer and to postpone recognition. He wrote: "One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again."

He is also known for developing the early corporate identity of the airline Dobrolyot, later Aeroflot, and designed its world-famous "Winged Hammer and Sickle" logo.

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  • From ‘The History of the VKP(b) [All-Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik)] in Posters’, no. 2 of a series of 25 posters

    Aleksander Rodchenko
    1926
  • From ‘The History of the VKP(b) [All-Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik)] in Posters’, no. 3 of a series of 25 posters

    Aleksander Rodchenko
    1926
  • From ‘The History of the VKP(b) [All-Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik)] in Posters’, no. 4 of a series of 25 posters

    Aleksander Rodchenko
    1926
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  • From ‘The History of the VKP(b) [All-Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik)] in Posters’, no. 6 of a series of 25 posters

    Aleksander Rodchenko
    1926
  • From ‘The History of the VKP(b) [All-Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik)] in Posters’, no. 15 of a series of 25 posters

    Aleksander Rodchenko
    1926
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