Example sentences for: rodchenko

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  • Soon Rodchenko had renounced any art divorced from practical application and was driving down every useful avenue, designing clothing (the factory uniform by way of Buck Rogers), printed fabrics, newspaper kiosks, logotypes, magazine covers and book jackets, and printed advertisements of all sorts.

  • To view the large, multifaceted exhibit of his work at MoMA is at once exhilarating and poignant--exhilarating because of the nearly 20 years of unabating discovery, astounding energy, and constant renewal at its heart; poignant because the main inspiration for the work was a ladderlike series of delusions that inevitably toppled Rodchenko into the void.

  • László Moholy-Nagy essentially invented the diagonal, for instance, and Umbo (Otto Umbehr) shares credit with his Russian colleague Aleksandr Rodchenko for discovering the graphic power of the shadow as seen from a perpendicular perspective.

  • Many of the artists associated with Bauhaus were, like Rodchenko, out to remake the world beginning with the appearance of material objects, but unlike him they did not feel the burden of responsibility toward a society in progress.

  • Rodchenko and his friends in the various groupings of the left wing of Soviet art in the 1920s saw themselves as embattled representatives of the true spirit of the Revolution, in the face of various currents of reaction, mediocrity, timidity, and stasis.


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