Proun

 

                    

                                             

El Lissitzky

Proun 

Art

Proun is a series of paintings by El Lissitzky. The medium used for this particular painting is collage, gouache, ink and graphite. The dimensions of this painting are roughly 50×60 cm. It is a relatively medium sized painting. El Lissitzky’s style of painting was suprematism and at the time, suprematism was conducted using very flat, 2D shapes and forms. Lissitzky had a taste for architecture and 3D forms so he decided to expand the boundaries of suprematism which thus led to “Proun”.

Artist

El Lissitzky was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. He was born on November 23rd 1890 and died on December 30^th 1941. His work greatly influenced the Bauhaus and constructivist movements. Lissitzky’s experimentation with production techniques and stylistic devices would later go on to dominate 20^th century graphic design. He designed several exhibition displays and propaganda works for the Soviet Union.  In 1941, he created a Soviet propaganda poster rallying the people to construct more tanks for the fight against Nazi Germany. El Lissitzky style of painting was of course, suprematism.

(I could not find the specific name of this painting anywhere, not sure if it really had one.....)

P.S. I will not be able to attend this week's meeting on 10/8/12. I have an extra Irish language that I really cannot miss.