A Revolutionary Impulse The Rise Of The Russian Avant Garde. The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde traces the arc of the pioneering avant-garde from World War I and the 1917 Russian Revolution through the completion of the Soviet Unions First Five-Year Plan in 1932. The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde.
The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde traces the arc of the pioneering avant-garde from its flowering in 1912 to the mid-1930s after Socialist Realism was decreed the sole sanctioned style of art. The Museum of Modern Art presents A Revolutionary Impulse. This constructionthink Constructivismis composed of plywood painted silver and cut in ovals joined by wire and suspended so that its shadow is cast upon the wall composing a heart.
With 260 works A Revolutionary Impulse makes a convincing case for the spread of the Russian avant-garde from the plastic arts during the pre-Revolutionary period with its mystical underpinnings to photography film graphics and industrial design of the 1920s when the avant-garde morphed into a progressive aesthetic for the masses.
The exhibition will be on view December 3 2016 March 12 2017. Registration opens at the Member Desk in the Museum lobby beginning one hour prior to each talk. Rodchenko certainly as innovative as any of these avant-gardists switched from painting to creating objects like that extraordinary thing hanging from the ceiling. The exhibition will be on view December 3 2016 March 12 2017.
