Aleksander Rodchenko (updated)

Aleksander Rodchenko is know to be one of the most important and influential avant-gard artist. Rodchenko turned out to be like any other painter but his interaction with Russian Futurists drove me to become one of the most influential founder of the Constructivism Movement.

Aleksander Rodchenko was influenced by Vladimir Tatlin and the communist party, he was an influential constructivist who believed it was his duty within the Russian communist society to produce practical designs. Rodchenko believed in pruning the chaos of life into orderly, rational forms. His interest in geometry made his artwork measured, balanced and logical.

Rodchenko was very committed to the Russian Revolution and this commitment lead him to abandon painting and fine arts and put his skills towards the service of the industry and the state and he ended up designing almost every thing including book covers and advertisements. Rodchenko was highly influenced by Art Nouveau and the work of Aubery Beadsley. He was also influenced by Kazimer Melevich and the Suprematism. A few years after that he began working on constructivism. 

The above image contain 3 of  Rodchenko's magazine design for all fields of the creative arts called Novyi lef. The design style was based on a strong, static, horizontal and vertical forms placed in machine rhythm relationship. Photomontages were regularly employed in Novyi lef, Rodchenko delighted in constructing bold, bulky, type and hard edge shape against softer forms and edges of the photomontage. The logo of Novyi Lef No1 is printed in tight registration, with the top half of the letter forms red and the bottom half in Black. In the early photomontage of Novyi Lef No 2, the montage is crossed out, negating the old order; young children symbolize the new society. The cover of Novyi lef No 3 a biplane bearing the magazine logo drops a fountain-pen bomb at a gorilla representing the traditional arts of the czarist regime. 

Rodchenko's work was purely abstract and as for photography this was of high importance to Rodchenko when he started taking photographs him self his photographic work became very importantto European photography during the 1920's
  

Philip B. meggs. and Alston W. Purvis.eds., 2012. Meggs’ History of Graphic Design. Fifth Edition. Hoboken Canada: John Wiley & Sons,Inc.pg 308

Rodchenko pushed the boundaries of photography by publishing an innovative series of photos that looked for abstract motifs in the real world, an elliptical style still characteristic of the work of many contemporary photographers. 

Rodchenko's designs concentrated on the spatial relationship between text, large areas of pure colour, and geometric construction elements. The orderly design of his work was often based on a very simple theme. the designs were not meant to perplex any viewer or draw any emotional response much of his work was political propaganda.