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1917
- Period Early 20th century
- CategoryAbstraction
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Line, colour and space are the main components of Rodchenko''s painterly technique. In 1918 in the Anarchy newspaper, he wrote that he was "persistently studying projection into depth, height and breadth, opening up the endless possibility of constructing beyond the bounds of time". The artist called his works "compositions of coloured movements and projected parts". The impulse that led Rodchenko along this path was clearly provided by Kazimir Malevich. Unlike Malevich, however, Rodchenko was a true materialist. He was, in essence, closer to Vladimir Tatlin and his relationship with art as a handicraft and the process of creation as one of invention. It was this that later helped Rodchenko to achieve such unique results in design, architecture and photomontage.