Chagall: The inflated stardom of a Russian artist Nov 14, 2008
Watching "that fathead" draw, Chagall remembered, "roused a hyena in me." He enrolled at a traditional drawing school where the painter Lazar Lissitzky (later El Lissitzky) also studied. In 1907, tired of Pen's realism, he went to St. Petersburg, where he learned about experimental theater and Gauguin. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia Oct 25, 2008
The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia, an exhibition that brings together nearly 2,000 documents (of which the almost 1,000 vintage photographs and prints are of particular interest) dating from 1851 to 2008 by some 250 authors, including Lewis Hine, Eugne Atget, El Lissitzky, Herbert Bayer, Edward Steichen, Berenice Abbott, August Sander, Weegee, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Agust Centelles, Xavier Miserachs, Franco Pinna, Allan Sekula, Robert Adams, Martha Rosler... (AbsoluteArts.com)
'It is like a jewel' Nov 8, 2007
It has a sort of early modernist feel - like El Lissitzky, the Russian constructivist. "It is extremely well made," Sch. (Guardian Unlimited)
A Slap in the Face! Futurists in Russia Mar 30, 2007
This project, realised in 1913, will be contrasted with El Lissitzkys series of post-revolutionary lithographic designs for the same work in order to explore the reasons why it remained such an important piece for the Russian avant-garde ... The emphasis of the exhibition is very much on the phenomenon of Russian Futurism, but later developments such as Suprematism and Constructivism are acknowledged in collages and photomontages by El Lissitzky and designs and constructions by Alexander... (AbsoluteArts.com)
When Ukrainian means Canadian Jan 29, 2007
One of the earliest was the Abstraktes Kabinett, a stylized room created by the Russian avant-garde artist/architect El Lissitzky. Displayed in Hanover, Germany, in 1927, the Kabinett has been called by Alfred Barr (founding director of the Museum of Modern Art) "probably the most famous single room of 20th-century art in the world." Peering at a photo, Humeniuk noticed the installation contained pieces by Piet Mondrian, Lissitzky and. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
