This dynamic architecture provides us with the new theater of life and because we are capable of grasping the idea of a whole town at any moment with… - El Lissitzky

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This dynamic architecture provides us with the new theater of life and because we are capable of grasping the idea of a whole town at any moment with any plan the task of architecture - the rhythmic arrangement of space and time - is perfectly and simply fulfilled for the new town will not be as chaotically laid out as the modern towns of north and south America but clearly and logically like a beehive..

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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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This is the model we await from Kasimir Malevich. AFTER THE OLD TESTAMENT THERE CAME THE NEW AFTER THE NEW THE COMMUNIST AND AFTER THE COMMUNIST THERE FOLLOWS FINALLY THE TESTAMENT OF SUPREMATISM. [But in this text postponed in a far wider concept than Malevich meant his Suprematism ]

At present we are living through an unusual period in time a new cosmic creation has become reality in the world, a creativity within ourselves which pervades our consciousness.. ..in this way the artist became the foundation on which progress in the reconstruction of life could advance beyond the frontiers of the all-seeing eye and the all-hearing ear. Thus a picture was no longer an anecdote nor a lyric poem nor a lecture on morality nor a feast for the eye but a sign and symbol of this new conception of the world which comes from within us.

Cubism demonstrated in its constructions its modernity in relation to scale, but in painting and contre-relief we have in front of us an absolute scale which is this - forms in their natural size in the ratio 1 : 1. If however we wish to transform the contre-relief into an architectural structure and therefore enlarge it by one hundred times, then the scale ceases to be absolute and becomes relative in the ratio of 1 : 100. Then we get the American statue of liberty in whose head there is room for four men and from whose hand the light streams out.

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