The second conception of the world via the medium of matter required both a visual and a tactile perception of things. In this case the whole design … - El Lissitzky

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The second conception of the world via the medium of matter required both a visual and a tactile perception of things. In this case the whole design process tends to emanate from the specific characteristics of the respective medium used. The leader of this movement (Tatlin) assumed.. ..that the intuitive and artistic mastery of materials would lead to inventions on the basis of which objects could be constructed. He believed he could prove this theory with his design for the 'Monument to the Third International' (1920), [never built]. He accomplished this task without having any special technical knowledge of construction.

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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 Ėlʹ Lisit︠s︡kiĭ El Lissickij Eliezer Markovich Lissitzky Lasar Lissitzky Eliezer Lissitsky Lazar Markovich Lissitzky Lazar Markovich Lisitskii El Lazar Lissitzky Lazarʹ Markovich Lisit︠s︡kiĭ Lazar Markovich Lisi︡tskiĭ Lazar Markovich Lisitsky Eliezer Lissitzky Eliʻezer Lisitsḳi El Lissitsky Lazar Lissitzky E. M. Lissitsky El Lisitsḳi Eleazar Markovich Lissitzky El Lisitsky Eleazar M. Lissitzky Lasar Markowitsch Lissitzky Eliezer Lisitski Eliezer Lisitsky Lazarʼ Markovič Lisickij E. Lisitsḳi Lazar Markovich Lisitski Lazar Markovich Lisitzky Lasar Morduchovich Lissitsky Lissitzky
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From the beginning of the [Sovjet] Revolution I was a member of the Committee for Art. Was commissioned for the first Soviet flag for the First of May 1918, which was carried across Red Square by members of the government. Later I worked at 'Izo Narkomprosa'. From 1919 I taught at the Higher Artists' Workshops in Vitebsk (our students Suetin, Judin and others).

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One of our [his] utopian ideas is the desire to overcome the limitations of the substructure, of the earthbound. We have developed this idea in a series of proposals (sky-hooks, [like Lissitzky's paper-architecture design 'Wolkenbügel' (1924)] stadium grandstands, Paris garage].. .It is the task of technology to make sure that all these elementary volumes that produce new relationships and tensions in space will be structurally safe.. .The idea of the conquest of the substructure, the earthbound, can be extended even further and calls for the conquest of gravity as such. It demands floating structures, a physical-dynamic architecture.

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