NEW Artists Added - in the OBMOKhU Category!

Stenberg Vladimir and Georgii. Cinema Poster
for 'Process o 3 millionakh' (The Case of Three Million),
Directed by Yakov Protazanov. 1929.

The OBMOKhU Movement is a most interesting and special one, as the artists who represent it have chosen a completely different artistic path. In fact, they have created a whole new profession, a new branch of art, which before them has not really existed. Certainly not on its own. Today it is known as design.

These artists have chosen to denounce art as a pure form of expression, art for art. They believed that art is a tool, which is to be used only for the benefit of people, creating daily life objects and delivering messages, educating the masses, and art which is fails to be useful in this way . They have called their artistic form Constructivism and formed the OBMOKhU (Society of Young Artists) movement.

Stenberg Vladimir and Georgii. Cinema Poster
for 'A Man With A Camera', a Film Without Words,
created and directed by Dziga Vertov. 1929.

Two members of this movement I have already published a couple of years ago: Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova. This month I have added another pair, who have worked mostly as a single entity, though not always. These two artists are the Stenberg brothers.

Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg were designers at heart, brilliant ones at that. Their work encompassed theatre design; buildings, interiors and exteriors; transportation; exhibition pavilions; street decor for celebrations; and much more. But most of all their name is connected today to their numerous, revolutionary in their boldness and artistic mastery, cinema posters. 

You may see the page of the Stenberg Brothers' work under the OBMOKhU movement with 141 of their amazing works!