Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko was born on the 5th of December 1891 in St. Petersburg,Russia, he was a, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer and was one of the main components into the foundation of constuctivism and Russian design, due to him being highly influenced by the pre-Revolutionary work of Kazimir Malevich, a Russian painter and Art theorist and Vladimir Tatlin, a Russian and Soviet Architect and Painter,Rodchenko's work is also heavly influenced by Cubism and Futurism, he is seen as one of the most diverse Constructivist and Productivist artists to emerge after the Russian Revolution.
He was born into a working class family in St.Petersburg, although moved to Kazan in 1909 after the death of his father, it was at this time Rodchenko decided he wanted to study art, although not having much exposure to the art world, except from art magazines.
In 1910 he entered the Kazan School of Fine Arts where he was taught by Nikolai Feshin, a painter and Georgii Medvedev, which he graduated from in 1914 and also met his future wife Varvara Stepanova.
After graduating he went to lectures by several Russian Futurist, one of them happening to to be Vladimir Mayakovsky, he became a supporter of Futurism.
After 1914 Rodchenko continued with an artistic education at Stroganov Institute in Moscow, where he had enrolled in Graphics, this was the school at which he created his first abstract drawings, influenced by the Suprematism of Kazimir Malevich in 1915 and the next year he took part in an exhibition "The Store" organised by Vladimir Tatlin.
Rodchenko had his own exhibition between 1917 and 1921 called, ' Exhibition of works by Rodchenko (1910-17) where he made his first collages using found photography, at this time he had left behind his Futurist style for a entirely abstract and geometric look.
Rodchenko had given up painting allowing him to concentrate on graphic design for posters, books, and films. In 1922 he had worked with Dziga Vertov, a filmaker who deepely influenced Rodchenko.
In the early 1920's Rodchenko thought to take up different types of art, abdoning his painting to concentrate on the other forms of art, drawn by the photomontages by German Dadaist he started his own experiments, using found images in 1923 but from 1924 onwards he also used his own images, gaining countless commissions for book covers and postersand was one of the first to experiment with photomontages, the first one he published was for Mayakovsky's poem "About this" which illustrated the front cover in 1923, however he did use other forms of art such as furniture, poster, book and typographic design as he believed that these art forms were more effect to communicating the messages of the soviet union, up until 1928 Rodchenko and Mayakovsky worked very closely with one another on the design and layout of LEF and Novy LEF, also becoming principal designer which was the publications of Constructivist artists with many of Rodchenko's photographs featured or used as the cover.
During the 1920's Rodchenko's work majorly reflected what was happening in the communist regime during that time, that same year he had become a huge leader in the Constructivist movement, playing a large part in making constructivism what it is today and making Rodchenko who he was, he established the first working group of constructivist who also regarded themselves as more important and practical to society all together.
In 1928 he joined the october circle of artist but was removed from the group in 1931 due to being charged with 'Formalism' and after that returned to painting, he stopped his photography in 1942 and was producing abstract expressionist art, although he was still organising photography exhibitions for the goverment and he was able to gain commissions for photography and advertising for the rest of his life and achieved being part of more than 50 exhibitions before he died in Moscow in 1956.
He was born into a working class family in St.Petersburg, although moved to Kazan in 1909 after the death of his father, it was at this time Rodchenko decided he wanted to study art, although not having much exposure to the art world, except from art magazines.
In 1910 he entered the Kazan School of Fine Arts where he was taught by Nikolai Feshin, a painter and Georgii Medvedev, which he graduated from in 1914 and also met his future wife Varvara Stepanova.
After graduating he went to lectures by several Russian Futurist, one of them happening to to be Vladimir Mayakovsky, he became a supporter of Futurism.
After 1914 Rodchenko continued with an artistic education at Stroganov Institute in Moscow, where he had enrolled in Graphics, this was the school at which he created his first abstract drawings, influenced by the Suprematism of Kazimir Malevich in 1915 and the next year he took part in an exhibition "The Store" organised by Vladimir Tatlin.
Rodchenko had his own exhibition between 1917 and 1921 called, ' Exhibition of works by Rodchenko (1910-17) where he made his first collages using found photography, at this time he had left behind his Futurist style for a entirely abstract and geometric look.
In the early 1920's Rodchenko thought to take up different types of art, abdoning his painting to concentrate on the other forms of art, drawn by the photomontages by German Dadaist he started his own experiments, using found images in 1923 but from 1924 onwards he also used his own images, gaining countless commissions for book covers and postersand was one of the first to experiment with photomontages, the first one he published was for Mayakovsky's poem "About this" which illustrated the front cover in 1923, however he did use other forms of art such as furniture, poster, book and typographic design as he believed that these art forms were more effect to communicating the messages of the soviet union, up until 1928 Rodchenko and Mayakovsky worked very closely with one another on the design and layout of LEF and Novy LEF, also becoming principal designer which was the publications of Constructivist artists with many of Rodchenko's photographs featured or used as the cover.
During the 1920's Rodchenko's work majorly reflected what was happening in the communist regime during that time, that same year he had become a huge leader in the Constructivist movement, playing a large part in making constructivism what it is today and making Rodchenko who he was, he established the first working group of constructivist who also regarded themselves as more important and practical to society all together.
In 1928 he joined the october circle of artist but was removed from the group in 1931 due to being charged with 'Formalism' and after that returned to painting, he stopped his photography in 1942 and was producing abstract expressionist art, although he was still organising photography exhibitions for the goverment and he was able to gain commissions for photography and advertising for the rest of his life and achieved being part of more than 50 exhibitions before he died in Moscow in 1956.
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