Word: tatlin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vinaver, sent him to Paris that year. He took a studio in a rickety building near the slaughteryards and found that his neighbors were Soutine, Leger and Modigliani. Back in Russia by 1914, Chagall waited out World War I (and was plunged into the Revolution) in the company of Tatlin, Malevich and Kandinsky...
...their own formal inventions as clichés. Most, though not all, of Nevelson's work is free from that tendency. If she is not one of the great formal innovators of modern sculpture-and her contribution to its syntax cannot fairly be compared with Picasso's, Tatlin's, Brancusi's or even David Smith's-she has a very deep reservoir of feeling that has infused her art and saves it from looking arid or repetitious. As a sculptor of feeling, her only peer among living American artists is Isamu Noguchi. In a time...
This deep hostility to modernism, a permanent legacy of Stalin, seems especially ironic to Western eyes because it was in Russia, between 1910 and 1925, that one of the great experiments of modern art was carried out. The leaders of the avantgarde, among them Kasimir Malevich, Naum Gabo, Vladimir Tatlin, Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky, wanted to serve the new power of the left by combining revolutionary art with revolutionary politics. Russian constructivism was, in fact, the only heroic modernist style that drew its strength from the revolutionary impetus. Yet its sin was in being abstract, and for that...