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And amid the thunderous roar of a world in collision WE, ON THE LAST STAGE OF THE PATH TO SUPREMATISM BLASTED ASIDE THE OLD WORK OF ART LIKE A BEING … - El Lissitzky
" "And amid the thunderous roar of a world in collision WE, ON THE LAST STAGE OF THE PATH TO SUPREMATISM BLASTED ASIDE THE OLD WORK OF ART LIKE A BEING OF FLESH AND BLOOD AND TURNED IT INTO A WORLD FLOATING IN SPACE. WE CARRIED BOTH PICTURE AND VIEWER OUT BEYOND THE CONFINES OF THIS SPHERE AND IN ORDER TO COMPREHEND IT FULLY THE VIEWER MUST CIRCLE LIKE A PLANET ROUND THE PICTURE WHICH REMAINS IMMOBILE IN THE CENTER. The empty phrase 'art for art's sake' had already been wiped out.
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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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It proved to be essential to clear the site for the new building. This idea was a forerunner of futurism which exposed the relentless nature of its motivating power. Revolutions had started undercover, everything grew more complicated. Painting economical in its creative output was still very complicated and uneconomical in its expression. cubism and futurism seized upon the purity of form treatment and colour and built a complicated and extensive system with them combining them without any regard for harmony. The rebuilding of life cast aside the old concept of nations classes patriotism and imperialism which had been completely discredited.
This is the way in which the artist has set about the construction of the world - an activity which affects every human being and carries work beyond the frontiers of comprehension. We see how its creative path took it by way of cubism to pure construction, but there was still no outlet to be found here.
In 1928 I designed a photo-montage frieze of 24 by 3.5 m for our 'Pressa' pavilion. It became the example par excellence for all larger-than-life montages, which were a permanent feature of the exhibitions from then on. During Majakovskij's stay in Berlin in 1923 I was commissioned to design his book 'For the Voice'. The book was recognized as the starting-point of a new typography, and the Gutenberg Society in Mainz made me a member. Another field of my work is the artistic and poly-graphic design of albums and periodicals.
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