White Circle
1918
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Location in museum
The Benois Wing
Open the panorama of the hall in the virtual tour
Room 77 - Period Early 20th century
- CategoryAbstraction
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Alexander Rodchenko’s abstract compositions vary the simplest geometric figures. The artist constructs a new representational spatiality, the optical effect of which is intensified by the textural working of the surface of the canvas and the logical colour combinations. Line, colour and space are the main components of Rodchenko’s painterly technique. Russian Museum: From Icons to the Modern Times. Palace Editions, St Petersburg, 2015. P. 340.
In 1918, Alexander Rodchenko wrote that he was «persistently studying projection into depth, height and breadth, opening up the endless possibility of constructing beyond the bounds of time.» He called his works «compositions of coloured movements and projected parts.» Rodchenko clearly received the impulse that led him along this path from Kazimir Malevich. Unlike Malevich, however, Rodchenko was a true materialist and in essence closer to Vladimir Tatlin and his relationship with art as a handicraft and the process of creation as one of invention. Russian Museum: From Icons to the Modern Times. Palace Editions, St Petersburg, 2015. P. 340.