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Asphalting a Street in Moscow
Alexander RodchenkoWW-1929-008620
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Denise and Andrew Saul Gift, 2005
Catalogue
- Year
- 1929
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 24.4 x 30 cm (9 5/8 x 11 13/16 in.)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Alexander Rodchenko
Artist
Alexander Rodchenko
Painting
Alexander Rodchenko rejected easel painting on ideological grounds, pioneering abstract compositions with dynamic diagonals and monochrome canvases before turning to graphic design, propaganda posters, and photomontage as tools for integrating art into Soviet mass culture. A central figure in Russian Constructivism and the Productivist movement, he declared painting's logical endpoint with his 1921 series of pure color canvases.
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- Alexander Rodchenko
- Year
- 1929
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 24.4 x 30 cm (9 5/8 x 11 13/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1929-008620
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified