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PROUN alters the conventional forms of the arts and leaves behind the image of the petty individualist, who locked himself in his office and hid seat… - El Lissitzky
" "PROUN alters the conventional forms of the arts and leaves behind the image of the petty individualist, who locked himself in his office and hid seated before a drawing easel, starting one picture and finishing another.
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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
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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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During my stay in Germany in 1922 I collaborated with the writer Ehrenburg, on the Magazine 'Veshch' (Gegenstand) [= Object] (first pro-Soviet edition). [I] Took part in organizing the First Russian Art Exhibition 1922-23 in Berlin and Amsterdam. My works were purchased by European and American collectors and museums. The museum in New York acquired a 'Proun' from the Soviet Exhibition. At this time, in 1923, I contracted pulmonary tuberculosis.
We analyzed the first stage of our construction, confined to two-dimensional space, and found it to be as durable and resistant as the earth itself. We build in this space just as we would on the ground, and therefore must take as our point of departure the concepts of gravity and force of attraction, as the foundation of everything built on the land. In PROUN the reciprocity of the effects of gravity [Newton, 'for every action an equal and opposite reaction'] manifests itself in a new capacity. We see that on the surface (plane) of the picture, the PROUN ceases to exist as such and becomes a building surveyed from every direction — considered from above or examined from below. The result of this turns out to be the destruction of the single axis that leads to the horizon.
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