El Lissitsky Quote

It proved to be essential to clear the site for the new building. This idea was a forerunner of futurism which exposed the relentless nature of its motivating power. Revolutions had started undercover, everything grew more complicated. Painting economical in its creative output was still very complicated and uneconomical in its expression. cubism and futurism seized upon the purity of form treatment and colour and built a complicated and extensive system with them combining them without any regard for harmony. The rebuilding of life cast aside the old concept of nations classes patriotism and imperialism which had been completely discredited.


'Suprematism' in World Reconstruction (1920)


It proved to be essential to clear the site for the new building. This idea was a forerunner of futurism which exposed the relentless nature of its...

It proved to be essential to clear the site for the new building. This idea was a forerunner of futurism which exposed the relentless nature of its...

It proved to be essential to clear the site for the new building. This idea was a forerunner of futurism which exposed the relentless nature of its...

It proved to be essential to clear the site for the new building. This idea was a forerunner of futurism which exposed the relentless nature of its...