NEW Works Added for an Existing Artist

Lunch. From a documentary 'Fabrika Kukhnya'
(Factory-Kitchen). 1931.

As I mentioned in the previous article, about two years ago I have published the works of the first OBMOKhU artists on the Russian Avant-garde Gallery. One of them is Alexander Rodchenko, whose talent is unparalleled. But his real genius was photography. 

Ever since I made his page I have received many requests to add more photography by Rodchenko, and finally, I have gotten around to do it.

At a time when photography was but budding, due to the technological leap of the portable small camera, which made it possible to carry it around everywhere and take pictures everywhere and at any time, Rodchenko with his belief in the idea of Constructivism has brought the art into photography and raised it to a whole new level, while at the same time remaining true to his belief that art must only be used as a tool. He uses it to artfully document and bring to the masses the daily life scenes and the country's projects, large and small. Even the most propagandist work manages to remain artistic caught by his innovative and unexpected viewpoints.

The Constitution. Sports Parade
at the Red Square. 1937.

His photographs range from the endearing shots of children going fishing, bathing or buying ice cream; to the historically fascinating, seemingly mundane details of street signs and transport junctions, or workers having lunch; to the obviously propagandist documentaries of the various technologies and worker professions or sports parades, which are gradually replaced by military parades demonstrating the might of the USSR; and even to the horrific documented evidence of slave labor at the monumental Soviet construction projects, such as the Belomorkanal, chilling the blood in the historical significance of the ChK soldier guarding the GULAG prisoners driven there as slaves to work to death, hungry and  cold.

I have also added some illustrations and a few other works.

You may see the page of Rodchenko's work under the OBMOKhU movement with 108 new works added, or the page of Rodchenko's work under the Mass and Agit Art category, with 50 new works added.

This brings the total number of his works at the Gallery to 369!