Open AccessAVANT-GARDE DIALOGUES
Author(s) -
Alexander Lavrentiev
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
dom burganova. prostranstvo kulʹtury
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2618-7965
pISSN - 2071-6818
DOI - 10.36340/2071-6818-2021-17-5-104-108
Subject(s) - constructive , sculpture , element (criminal law) , art , avant garde , art history , aesthetics , computer science , law , process (computing) , political science , operating system
The article is dedicated to comparative analysis of spatial constructions created by the Russian Avant-Garde Artist Alexander Rodchenko and the famous kinetic European and American artist Alexander Calder in the first half of the 20-th century. For both artists technology played the decisive role in constructing spatial objects, both of them used line as a basic expressive element. Still there is a certain difference stressed by the author: Rodchenko used linear elements to express structural and constructive qualities of spatial objects, while Calder was more intending to represent emotion and movement. Rodchenko and Calder belong to the common abstract artistic trend in 20th century sculpture. But their works served as the basis for the two different traditions: minimalist conceptual and geometric art of Donuld Judd on one side and spontaneous mechanisms of Jean Tinguely on the other.