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1. Gallery:

El Lissitzky, Russische Ausstellung, 1929

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• El Lissitzky, Russische Ausstellung, 1929
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• El Lissitzky, Merz-Matineen, 1923
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• El Lissitzky, Khorosho! Oktiabr’skaia poema, 1923
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• El Lissitzky, Announcer, 1923
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• El Lissitzky, Of Two Squares: A Suprematist Tale in Six Constructions, 1920
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• El Lissitzky, USSR, 1923
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• El Lissitzky ,Sentry, 1923
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• El Lissitzky, The New Man, 1923
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• El Lissitzky, Broom, 1923
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• El Lissitzky, Khorosho! Oktyabrskaya poema, 1927
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• El Lissitzky, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, 1920
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2. Gallery Paragraph:

After researching El Lissiskty, I have learned a lot about his style and attributes to society through his work. His base was surrounded by the fundamentals of architecture. Most of his bombing career was during the start of World War I, the Russians used him to create propaganda. He created “prouns”, which majority of his work is titled as. El work is linked through the use of geometric shapes to create objects and or symbolizes a bigger picture.

3. Old Bibliography:
El Lissitzky, a Russian native, architect, typographer, photographer, and painter. In his earlier work was centralized around Jewish themes and culture, but that changed. During this time in history the rise of World War I was approaching. Most of his work was for Soviet propaganda, which was a key contributor to the Soviet Union’s rise of power and brainwashing of it’s own people. That’s why much of his earlier work includes red; red symbolizes communism. One of his approaches would be to use abstract geometric shapes to define the “spatial relationship of his compositions. His approach was to create 3-D environments in which 2-D geometry shapes could co-exists in contrast to that space. Lissitzky’s limited primary color palette, black and white, geometry shapes, and limited typography were foundation work for graphic design. Architect was his favorite expressive art, he liked the structure that he could create, especially the use of “horizontal skyscrapers”. His work always had a bold message, you can see in his work that there is flow, structure, and spaces awareness within his pieces. After researching El Lissitzky I feel that I will personally carry some of his design techniques into my own work!

4. Significant Points:
1.  He used 3-D environments with the placement of 2-D objects
2. He called certain pieces of work “prouns”, project for the affirmation of the new in Russian
3. Most of his career was during the period of Russian propaganda

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Design History

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