TheByte

Bruce

Ted Godwin (born 1933)
Canadian

Ted has done many different styles, but he's most famous for his rendering of water.





Here's some other stuff he's done...

Rob

Hello notic,
It is important to separate art from the art market ....they are two very different things.

Having said that, the line dividing them has become more blurred in recent years (although one could suggest Picasso, Warhol, and others, were made superstars as much by the market as through their brilliance) some contemporary artists have risen to fame more for their notoriety and shock value ....and the market has played into that as well.

Rob

I will continue with my theme of Revolutionary art.

El Lissitzky was a contemporary of Malevich's.

Lazar Markovich Lissitzky (El Lissitzky) (1890-1941)

His early work was influenced by the Italian Futurists and their love of speed and machines.

1913-1916


He became very influenced by Malevich's Suprematism and Vladimir Tatlin's Constructivism.

El Lissitsky became a major propaganda artist for the Bolsheviks. His pictures used symbolism to make their point ...as many people who were to see them were illiterate. His designs were visions of a new world, a modern Russia (and Soviet Union), trains were painted with his designs and traveled throughout the Soviet Union with their celebratory message of the achievements of the revolution.

From Wikipedia
Some of his most famous works derive from this era, with perhaps his most famous being the 1919 propaganda poster "Beat the Whites with the Red wedge" (pictured below). Russia was going through a civil war at the time, which was mainly fought between the "Reds", who were the communists and revolutionaries, and the "Whites" who were the monarchists, conservatives, liberals and socialists who opposed the Bolshevik Revolution.


Lissitzky developed his own variation of Suprematism he called Proun. These are some of the most exemplary and brilliant examples of early Modern graphic design IMO. Lissitzky's influence is obvious in the graphic design language taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany.

In 1921 he moved to Berlin after taking the job as a Russian cultural ambassador.

Untitled
1919-1920


Neuer (New Man) from Figurinen, die Plastische Gestaltung der elektro-mechanischen Schau "Sieg über die Sonne" (Figurines: The Three-Dimensional Design of the Electro-Mechanical Show "Victory over the Sun.").
1920


Study for a page of the book "Of Two Squares: A Suprematist Tale in Six Constructions".
1920


1922-1923


Proun
1922-1923


Composition.
1922


Proun 19D.
1922


Untitled (from "Proun, The First Kestner Portfolio")
1923


Book Cover 1922



Lissitzky used text as a modern visual composition -- so they had visual impact -- they communicated visually as much as literately.

Book Covers and Posters:
1922-23


Broom, vol. 5, no. 4.
1923


Dlia golosa by Vladimir Mayakovsky. 1923. Illustrated book with twenty-four letterpress illustrations


Katalog des Sowjet-Pavillons auf der Internationalen Presse-Austellung, Köln 1928.
1928


1927


1928


1925


1930


1932

Rob

About 2 Squares

About 2 squares is a childrens book by El Lissitsky published in 1922 by Skythen, Berlin.

The text also forms the powerful imagery of the story. It is a brilliant example of abstract Modernism -- a story where the "characters" are idealized abstract concepts.

Front Cover: About 2 Squares, El Lissitzky


Dedication page: To all, to all children


Title page: El Lissitzky: a suprematist story -- about two squares. in 6 constructions: Berlin, Skythen, 1922.


Instructions: Don't read this book Take --
paper. . . .fold
rods . . . .color
blocks of wood . . . .build


Here are two squares


From far away, flying towards the Earth


see black Chaos (And they see a black mess)


crash -- all scattered (They crash and scatter everything)


and on the Black was established Red Clearly (And red organizes a settlement on the black square)


Thus it ends -- further (Here it ends. . .and keeps going)


Colophon: UNOVIS, constructed 1920, vitebsk


Back cover


Images from MoMA

Rob

These are particularly well painted. I think the way he has depicted the water is superb -- first class painting. Very beautiful Bruce.

Bruce

You're welcome Rob. And thank you for posting that interesting Russian related artistic work. Very interesting.

The Diva

Leon Spilliaert (1881-1946) Belgian Symbolist/expressionist





Vertgo ,Magic Staircase ( 1908)














Self Portrait ( 1907)



The Posts 1910


and another Self Portrait (1907 too)



Ok not his but vey cool: Homage to Spilliaert inspired in the 1908 Vertigo

Bruce

Fantastic art work Car Diva...

Love this one:

That's true artwork I've ever seen it.

The Diva

Thanks, Bruce.

I really like Homage statue!

We'll continue to post great art for all to appreciate ( or scratch our heads)

Rob

The bottom right corner of this painting is particularly well depicted I think.



Very nice CD.