Rodtchenko Alexandre 1851 1956

One of the most versatile artists of Russia for years 1922 1924 and leader of the Russian avant. He was a painter and graphic artist. He designed posters for the film, for stores factories. In correlation with posters and models book Rodtchenko interest between 1922 and 1924 in collage. He said the painting easel obsolete and turns to technology, and especially photography. He spent the rest of his life to develop with Lissitsky photomontage, whose precursor was Heartfield. It tries to give his collages in a visual equivalent of my poetry of Mayakovsky and the result will be an altogether synthetic original photomontage and placing no scene. He developed a constructivist art. At the time of the Revolution of 1917 he hosted the Federation of the Union of Painters and works for the EWL magazine in which he holds the coverage.
His work is complemented by many formal research, combining painting, gluing or typography.

In 1928, the magazine Sovetskoïe foto batteries Rodtchenko too inspired by the Western research (including the Bauhaus and therefore Moholy - Nagy. This is the beginning of a long controversy about it, which would cost him a lot of energy to defending his photographic work.