Vladimir Tatlin

(noun)

(1885 – 1953) A Russian and Soviet painter and architect. With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Russian avant-garde art movement of the 1920s, and he later became an important artist in the Constructivist movement. He is most famous for his attempts to create the giant tower, The Monument to the Third International.

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Examples of Vladimir Tatlin in the following topics:

  • Soviet Constructivism

    • Inspired by Vladimir Mayakovsky's declaration "the streets our brushes, the squares our palettes," artists and designers participated in public life during the Civil War.
    • Some of the most famous of these were by the poet-painter Vladimir Mayakovsky and Vladimir Lebedev.
    • The canonical work of Constructivism was Vladimir Tatlin's proposal for the Monument to the Third International (1919) which combined a machine aesthetic with dynamic components celebrating technology such as searchlights and projection screens.
    • This was opposed to the utilitarian and adaptable version of Constructivism held by Tatlin and Rodchenko.
    • Tatlin's work was immediately hailed by artists in Germany as a revolution in art.

  • Assemblage

    • Russian constructivist artist Vladimir Tatlin created his "counter-reliefs" in the middle of 1910s.
    • Alongside Tatlin, the earliest woman artist to try her hand at assemblage was Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, the Dada Baroness.

  • Painting in the Middle Byzantine Empire

    • The Theotokos of Vladimir, an icon of the Virgin and Child, represents the new style of icons that were created in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
    • The image was given as a gift to the Grand Duke of Kiev in 1131 by the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople and is an important and protective icon of the Russian cities of Vladimir and Moscow and the country of Russia itself.
    • Theotokos of Vladimir.
    • Vladimir, Russia.

  • Icon Painting in Byzantine Russia

    • The two painted icons for the Assumption Cathedral in Vladimir in 1408 and the Church of the Trinity in the Trinity-St.Sergius Lavra monastery from 1425-1427.