Filippo Marinetti lectured in Russia. Russian artists absorbed cubism and futurism and quickly added innovative directions of their own.
Ilya Zdanevich insert cover for Milliork by Aleksei Kruchenykh 1919
Ilja Zdanevich, pages from Le-Dantyu as a Beacon, 1923
David and Vladimir Burliuk, pages from Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy, 1914
Kasimir Malevich Black Square 1913
Kasimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition, 1915 Kasimir Malevich, First Circle of Lectures, by Nikolai Punin, 1920
By 1920 a philosophical split had formed within the art and design community. Some artists, including Malevich and Kandinsky argued that art MUST remain a spiritual activity separate from the needs of society. They wanted nothing to do with a political agenda.
Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko led a group of artists who supported the opposing viewpoint. They condemned ART FOR ART S SAKE to devote themselves to industrial design, visual communication and applied arts serving the new communist society.
The Constructivist ideal was shown through the work of El Lissitzky
El Lissitzky, PROUN 23, no. 6, 1919 El Lissitzky, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, 1919
El Lissitzky, cover art for Veshch, 1921-22 El Lissitzky, title page for Veshch, 1922
El Lissitzky layout for a cover of Broom, vol. 5 1922
El Lissitzky, ad for Pelikan carbon paper, 1924 El Lissitzky, poster for Pelikan ink, 1924
El Lissitzky cover of For The Voice by Mayakovsky 1923
El Lissitzky, pages from For the Voice, 1923 Beat your drums on the squares of the riots, turned red with the blood of revolution
El Lissitzky, pages from For the Voice, Order for the Army of the Arts
El Lissitzky book cover for The Isms of Art 1924
El Lissitzky, text format for The Isms of Art, 1924
El Lissitzky title page for The Isms of Art 1924
El Lissitzky, pictorial spread from The Isms of Art, 1924
El Lissitzky cover of Notes of a Poet by Ilia Selvinskii 1928
El Lissitzky exhibition poster 1929
El Lissitzky, exhibition design for Pressa, 1928
Typographer Jan Tschichold would later write: Lissitzky was one of the great pioneers... his influence was widespread and enduring... a generation that has never heard of him stands upon his shoulders.
Alexander Rodchenko, covers for Lef no. 1, 2 &3
Alexander Rodchenko poster, 1937 (The podium is a newspaper proclaiming, Peace! Bread! Land! )
http://www.youtube.com/embed/dj_6_vo8uak
Alexander Rodchenko paperback book covers 1924
http://youtu.be/mqurcu6jn58
Color was used as an important structural element. Red was favored because of its visual power AND because of its association with revolution.
Salomon Telingater cover for The World Belongs to Kirsanov 1930
Georgy and Vladimir Augustovich Stenberg film poster, undated
G. & V. Augustovich Stenberg, The 11th Year of the Revolution poster, 1928 G. & V. Augustovich Stenberg, The General poster, 1929
Gustav Klutsis Spartakiada postcard 1928 His work is often compared to that of John Heartfield.
Gustav Klutsis, We Will Repay the Coal Debt to the Country poster, 1930 Gustav Klutsis, Everyone Must Vote in the Election of Soviets poster, 1930 Gustav Klutsis, Building Socialism Under the Banner of Lenin poster, 1931
Vladimir Vasilevich Lebedev, page from the book, The Adventures of the Scarecrow, 1922
Vladimir Vasilevich Lebedev page spread from the book, The Adventures of the Scarecrow, 1922
Vladimir Vasilevich Lebedev from the book, Circus 1928
Vladimir Vasilevich Ledebev, page spread, Circus, 1928
Launched in the Netherlands in the summer of 1917, Théo van Doesburg is considered the founder and guiding spirit of the De Stijl movement.
Piet Mondrian Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue 1922
Théo van Doesburg and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy book cover 1925
Vilmos Huszar, cover and title page designs for De Stijl, 1917-18
Théo van Doesburg, cover and ad designs for De Stijl, 1921-22
Piet Mondrian and van Doesburg had a parting of the ways in 1924 when van Doesburg declared the diagonal to be a more dynamic compositional principle than horizontal and vertical construction. Mondrian believed in purely vertical and horizontal composition
Théo van Doesburg, exhibition poster, 1920 Théo van Doesburg and Kurt Schwitters Kleine Dada Soirée poster, 1920
Théo van Doesburg, dadaist poetry from De Stijl, 1921
El Lissitzky, cover and page from De Stijl, 1922
The Schroeder House, Utrecht, 1924
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, cover and page spread designs for i10, 1927
http://youtu.be/9fmikoovluo