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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  • 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.

  • Vladimir I and Christianization

    • Vladimir I, also known as Vladimir the Great or Vladimir Sviatoslavich the Great, ruled Kievan Rus' from 980 to 1015 and is famous for Christianizing this territory during his reign.
    • The major player in the Christianization of the Rus' world is traditionally considered Vladimir I.
    • Vladimir fled to his kinsman Haakon Sigurdsson, who ruled Norway at the time.
    • In 978, Vladimir returned to Kievan Rus' and successfully recaptured the territory.
    • Outline the shift from pagan culture to Orthodox Christianity under the rule of Vladimir I

  • 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.

  • Ivan I and the Rise of Moscow

    • Moscow was only a small trading outpost in the principality of Vladimir-Suzdal in Kievan Rus' before the invasion of Mongol forces during the 13th century.
    • Ivan I continued the family tradition and petitioned the leaders of the Golden Horde to gain the seat of Grand Prince of Vladimir.
    • This new title, which he kept until his death around 1340, meant he could collect taxes from the Russian lands as a ruling prince and position his tiny city as a major player in the Vladimir region.
    • He was born around 1288 and died in either 1340 or 1341, still holding the title of Grand Prince of Vladimir.
    • Sarai, the capital of the Golden Horde, sat to the southeast, while Moscow (not visible on this map) was tucked up in the northern forests of Vladimir-Suzdal.

  • Democratic Socialism

    • Leninism is based on the philosophy of Vladimir Lenin, who advocated organized revolution led by a vanguard party.

  • Yaroslav the Wise

    • He was also vice-regent of Novgorod from 1010 to 1015 before his father, Vladimir the Great, died.
    • Yaroslav was the son of the Varangian Grand Prince Vladimir the Great and most likely his second son with Rogneda of Polotsk.
    • Evidence from the Primary Chronicle and examination of his skeleton suggests he is one of the youngest sons of Vladimir, and possibly a son from a different mother.
    • In this same time period Vladimir the Great granted the Kievan throne to his younger son, Boris.
    • Yaroslav refused to pay Novgorodian tribute to Kiev in 1014, and only Vladimir's death in 1015 prevented a severe war between these two regions.

  • The Bolsheviks

    • The Bolsheviks, founded by Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov, were by 1905 a mass organization consisting primarily of workers under a democratic internal hierarchy governed by the principle of democratic centralism, who considered themselves the leaders of the revolutionary working class of Russia.
    • Discontent and the weaknesses of the Provisional Government led to a rise in the popularity of the Bolshevik Party, led by Vladimir Lenin, which demanded an immediate end to the war.
    • The Bolshevik party, led by Vladimir Lenin, and the workers' Soviets, overthrew the Provisional Government in Petrograd.

  • Author Acknowledgements

    • Vladimir Logvinenko (deceased), Mo Geraghty, Rupinder Sekhon, Javier Rueda, Carol Olmstead; Also, Dr.

  • Properties of Alkenes

    • The factory of the Shukhov cracking process by the great Russian engineer and scientist Vladimir Shukhov (1853-1939) in 1934.