Vladimir Tatlin Quotes

Russian artist (1885–1953)

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Vladimir Yevgraphovich Tatlin (8 December 1885 – 31 May 1953) was a Soviet painter and architect. With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Soviet avant-garde art movement of the 1920's; later he became an important artist in the Constructivist movement. He is most famous for his design for 'The Monument to the Third International'.

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Native Name: Владимир Татлин

Alternative Names: Vlagyimir Jevgrafovics Tatlin • Vladimir Levgrafovitch Tatline • Wladimir Tatlin • Vladimir Levgrafovitch Tatlin • Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin • Vladimir Yevgrafovitch Tatlin • Vladimir Evgrafovič Tatlin • Vladimir Evgrafovich Tatlin • Lot • Wladimir Jewgrafowitsch Tatlin • Vladimir Evgarfovitch Tatline • Vladimir Tatljin • Volodymyr Yevhrafovych Tatlin • Volodymyr Tatlin • Владимир Евграфович Татлин

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Let's split open our figures and place the environment inside them.

[to create] A union of purely artistic forms for a utilitarian purpose.. [referring to his Tower / Monument, with a height of 400 meters, but never constructued]

It [ [his Tower ] was to be dynamic, both in its outward form and inward activity..

[the task of material culture is] to shed light on the tasks of production in our country, and also to discover the place of the artist-constructor in production, in relation to improving the quality both of the manufactured product and of the organization of the new way of life in general.

In reinforced concrete we have not only a new material but, of far greater consequence, new constructions and a new method for designing buildings. Therefore, in using [reinforced concrete], we have to renounce the old traditions and concern ourselves with meeting new tasks.

[iron and glass, the] 'materials of the new Classicism'.

The dream [of flying] is as old as Icarus.. .I too want to give back to man the feeling of flight [with his 'Letatlin'-air-bike, 1929-1932]. This we have been robbed of by the mechanical flight of the aeroplane. We cannot feel the movement of our body in the air.

The engineers made hard forms. Evil. With angles. They are easily broken. The world is round and soft..

The influence of my art is expressed in the movement of the Constructivists, of which I am the founder – Tatlin.