Tatlin, Vladmir (1885-1953) in 1919c. by Photographer Unknown to Me
Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin worked as a 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 the most important artist in the Constructivist movement.
Tatlin is regarded as a progenitor of Russian post-Revolutionary Constructivist art with his pre-Revolutionary counter-reliefs — structures made of wood and iron for hanging in wall corners. He conceived these sculptures in order to question the traditional idea of painting, though he did not regard himself as a Constructivist and objected to many of the movement's ideas.
Although colleagues at the beginning of their careers, Tatlin and Malevich quarreled fiercely and publicly at the time of the 'Zero-Ten' exhibition [1915) long before the birth of 'Constructivism', apparently over the 'suprematist' works Malevich exhibited there. This led Malevich to develop his ideas further in the city of Vitebsk, where he found a school. Suprematism came to light in 1915 at the 0.10 exhibition, one of the main shows of Russian avant-garde, also called "the last futurist exhibition"
Tatlin, Vladmir (1885-1953) in 1919c. by Photographer Unknown to Me
Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin worked as a 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 the most important artist in the Constructivist movement.
Tatlin is regarded as a progenitor of Russian post-Revolutionary Constructivist art with his pre-Revolutionary counter-reliefs — structures made of wood and iron for hanging in wall corners. He conceived these sculptures in order to question the traditional idea of painting, though he did not regard himself as a Constructivist and objected to many of the movement's ideas.
Although colleagues at the beginning of their careers, Tatlin and Malevich quarreled fiercely and publicly at the time of the 'Zero-Ten' exhibition [1915) long before the birth of 'Constructivism', apparently over the 'suprematist' works Malevich exhibited there. This led Malevich to develop his ideas further in the city of Vitebsk, where he found a school. Suprematism came to light in 1915 at the 0.10 exhibition, one of the main shows of Russian avant-garde, also called "the last futurist exhibition"