1. Suprematism and Constructivism
... exhibitions promoting both Russian and Western art that shared a common vision of aesthetics steeped in technology, mass production, and social transformation. While Lissitzky was teaching architecture and graphic design at the Artistic Technical Institute in Vitebsk, his art shifted from figuration to geometric abstraction. Under the tutelage of Suprematist painter Kazimir Malevich, Lissitzky began a body of ... the new everyday life. In 1922 Constructivism was consolidated, with the first practical realizations of the Constructivists impulse to extend the formal vocabulary of earlier...
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