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Rodchenko and Photomontage
For Mayakovsky's poem About This, 1923.
The use of photomontage was being used by other designers in Europe who had communication with the Russian constructivists....Dada, Germany (J. Heartfield), Poland, Netherlands designers and offset printing, was this printed offset or letterpress? More questions in my mind.
Szymon Bojko writes in his New graphic design in Revolutionary Russia Against the back-drop of Mayakovsky's poem Pro Eto (About This) Rodchenko created his first series of eleven photomontages, one of his best works. In them we do not find a literal illustration of the poetic text, but rather the artist's own commentary. Through the use of ambiguous metaphors Rodchenko wove his reflections on such concepts as love, happiness and the middle-class ideal of life. But in this anonymous collection of objects and people, anonymous photographs and reproductions taken from old prints, a personal motif appeared: the superimposed photographs of the poet and his lover Lili Brik. This totally unexpected incursion deepened the artistic fiction, transporting the reader into the realm of philosophical deliberation. Collage, photomontage, typomontage, photogram and photograph become elements ever more widely used in Rodchenko's creative pursuits. In 1924 he decided to take up photography himself, and this step was decisive for his future career as an experimental photographer and had influence on his general artistic thinking. The photographic lens and photosensitive paper helped the artist to overcome stereotypes of perception as well as the conventional appearance of things.'
Rodchenko and Photomontage
For Mayakovsky's poem About This, 1923.
The use of photomontage was being used by other designers in Europe who had communication with the Russian constructivists....Dada, Germany (J. Heartfield), Poland, Netherlands designers and offset printing, was this printed offset or letterpress? More questions in my mind.
Szymon Bojko writes in his New graphic design in Revolutionary Russia Against the back-drop of Mayakovsky's poem Pro Eto (About This) Rodchenko created his first series of eleven photomontages, one of his best works. In them we do not find a literal illustration of the poetic text, but rather the artist's own commentary. Through the use of ambiguous metaphors Rodchenko wove his reflections on such concepts as love, happiness and the middle-class ideal of life. But in this anonymous collection of objects and people, anonymous photographs and reproductions taken from old prints, a personal motif appeared: the superimposed photographs of the poet and his lover Lili Brik. This totally unexpected incursion deepened the artistic fiction, transporting the reader into the realm of philosophical deliberation. Collage, photomontage, typomontage, photogram and photograph become elements ever more widely used in Rodchenko's creative pursuits. In 1924 he decided to take up photography himself, and this step was decisive for his future career as an experimental photographer and had influence on his general artistic thinking. The photographic lens and photosensitive paper helped the artist to overcome stereotypes of perception as well as the conventional appearance of things.'