Tag: Alexander Rodchenko

  • Revolution: Russian Art opens at Royal Academy

    Revolution: Russian Art opens at Royal Academy

    One hundred years on from the Russian Revolution, this powerful exhibition explores one of the most momentous periods in modern world history through the lens of its groundbreaking art. Renowned artists including Kandinsky, Malevich, Chagall and Rodchenko were among those to live through the fateful events of 1917, which ended centuries of Tsarist rule and…

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  • Tate Modern’s The Radical Eye photo exhibition assembled by Elton John

    Tate Modern’s The Radical Eye photo exhibition assembled by Elton John

    The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection (at Tate Modern until 7 May 2017). Photography is a 19th-century invention, but it was only in the 1900s that it became a medium for avant-garde vision. It took the modernist revolution in painting and the splintered perceptions of cubism to show photographers that the…

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