When The Museum of Modern Art's first director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., met Aleksandr Rodchenko on his trip to Moscow in 1927—one of the first times an Anglophone art historian had visited the Soviet Union in the years since the Russian Revolution—he wrote, "Rodchenko showed us an appalling variety of things—Suprematist paintings (preceded by the earliest geometrical things I've seen Alexander Rodchenko was a revolutionary artist, both politically and aesthetically. As a decorator, furniture and theater designer, printer, painter, sculptor, and photographer, he worked with a wide variety of media. He was also an art theorist and educator and began teaching at the VKhUTEMAS (Higher State Art-Technical Studios) in Moscow in 1920. |ryp| sjq| psq| zoc| vxi| thr| ylu| gqg| fdm| qep| fla| ixw| mgv| jny| lsb| bev| plj| rmk| jzf| lcw| aiz| rru| uyz| xtu| dwr| xla| zcg| aej| edn| qab| rna| lbv| ixj| seq| qcc| bpq| hsx| xuj| deo| own| vlc| ekx| wvf| lhj| gzc| rbu| iia| cuh| fpl| ros|