Revolutionary Design in Russia.

• Europe always considered to be the heart of modernity and industrialisation 
• between 1917-1925 revolutionary design took place largely due to social change and radical advances in artistic reflection. 
• Nov 7th 1917 Bolsevihks ( armed revolutionary workers).
• Lead by Lenin in St Petersburg. Attacked the government.
• Tzara over thrown workers seize control of state. 
• lenin controls russia- communist government 
• USSR 1917-1989
• Ruled by people
• not complete equality 
• 'october' directed by Sergei Einstein 1927.
• Celebrates 10 years of revolution. related to previous ideas that the king was put there by God.Modernism attacks this idea and replaces it with more scientific ideologies.
• Pre progression ( imagery)
• Expressionism in modernity 
• 60% of Russian illiterate
• Images clear and symbolic due to this illiteracy. 
• Red symbol of communism and russia. 
• Colour chosen by Bolshevihks
• symbol of the blood of the workers.
• 1917-1920's intense artistic expressionism.
• Lenin dies late 1920's 
• Stalin takes over and this symbolises a change in art and design, progression in halted.
• Stalin-totalatrianism 
• destroys expressionism
• progressive art not approved by Stalin.
• Art became very expressionate and modern
• art still very symbolic communicating to the illiterate masses
• Rodchenko was commissioned in a utilitarian project to promote public libraries and book stores. 
• Red font in this piece is symbolic of Bolsevihks.
• Photographic imagery modern(revolutionary) 
• Franz Ferdinand mimicked Bolsevihks 
• Print Became popular (cheap,easy)
• construction of a new society-exhibition 
• different disciplines working together 
• Tatlins model of the movement of the third international 
• Created as a demonstartion of russian deveopment and forward thinking 
• Vketemas russian progressive art school
• pre dates bauhaus 
• opened to train interdisciplinary constructivist design. 
• Vkutemas closed by stalin (to radical)
• Revolution=new opportunity to art progress 
• Constructivist, desire to make art useful 
• Art a chance to construct a new society 
• by the end of the 1920's artistic freedom non existent 
• 1934 Stalin decrees social realism only.