Vladimir Tatlin
Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin was a Russian and Soviet painter, architect, and stage-designer. Tatlin achieved fame as the architect who designed The Monument to the Third International, more commonly known as Tatlin's Tower, which he began in 1919. With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Soviet avant-garde art movement of the 1920s, and he later became an important artist in the constructivist movement.
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- Born in
- Moscow
- Educated at
- Penza Art School
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Trending topics shown first"to shed light on the tasks of production in our country, and also to discover the place of the artist-constructor in production, in relation to improving the quality both of the manufactured product a…"
"The influence of my art is expressed in the movement of the Constructivists, of which I am the founder – Tatlin."
"The dream is as old as Icarus.. .I too want to give back to man the feeling of flight . This we have been robbed of by the mechanical flight of the aeroplane. We cannot feel the movement of our body i…"
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1885
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