We must take note of the fact that the artist nowadays is occupied with painting flags, posters, pots and pans textiles and things like that. What is… - El Lissitzky
" "We must take note of the fact that the artist nowadays is occupied with painting flags, posters, pots and pans textiles and things like that. What is referred to as 'artistic work' has on the vast majority of occasions nothing whatever to do with creative effort: and the term 'artistic work' is used in order to demonstrate the 'sacredness' of the work which the artist does at his easel. The conception of 'artistic work' presupposes a distinction between useful and useless work and as there are only a few artists buyers can be found even for their useless products. The artist's work lies beyond the boundaries of the useful and the useless.
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About El Lissitzky
Lazar Markovich Lissitzky [Лазарь Маркович Лисицкий] (November 23, 1890 – December 30, 1941), more famous as El Lissitzky [Эль Лисицкий], was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer, and architect. He was an active protagonist of Russian Constructivism.
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Native Name:
Ла́зарь Ма́ркович Лиси́цкий
Alternative Names:
El' Lisickij
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Ėlʹ Lisit︠s︡kiĭ
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El Lissickij
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Eliezer Markovich Lissitzky
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Lasar Lissitzky
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Eliezer Lissitsky
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Lazar Markovich Lissitzky
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Lazar Markovich Lisitskii
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El Lazar Lissitzky
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Lazarʹ Markovich Lisit︠s︡kiĭ
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Lazar Markovich Lisi︡tskiĭ
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Lazar Markovich Lisitsky
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Eliezer Lissitzky
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Eliʻezer Lisitsḳi
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El Lissitsky
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Lazar Lissitzky
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E. M. Lissitsky
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El Lisitsḳi
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Eleazar Markovich Lissitzky
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El Lisitsky
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Eleazar M. Lissitzky
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Lasar Markowitsch Lissitzky
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Eliezer Lisitski
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Eliezer Lisitsky
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Lazarʼ Markovič Lisickij
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E. Lisitsḳi
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Lazar Markovich Lisitski
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Lazar Markovich Lisitzky
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Lasar Morduchovich Lissitsky
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We have named PROUN [the art, stepping over from painting to architecture] a station on the path to the construction of the new form.. .From being a simple depicter the artist becomes a creator (builder) of forms for a new world — the world of objectivity. This does not mean the creation of a rivalry with the engineer. Art has not yet crossed paths with science.
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