Liubov Popova, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova
LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv (LEF: Journal of the Left Front of the Arts), no. 2
1924
Journal, letterpress printed
Not on view
Moscow-based Constructivists Liubov Popova, Alexandr Rodchenko, and Varvara Stepanova contributed to several issues of the politically oriented arts and culture magazine LEF. Dedicated to the recently deceased Popova, its second issue features a cover by Rodchenko that incorporates Popova’s design work, as well as spreads with additional patterns in an abstract geometric style for printed fabric by all three Soviet artists.
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, April 20–September 13, 2025
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Aleksandr Rodchenko
Russian, 1891–1956 246 works onlineWhen The Museum of Modern Art’s first director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. , met Aleksandr Rodchenko on his trip to Moscow in 1927—one of the first times an Anglophone art historian had visited the Soviet Union in the years since the Russian Revolution—he wrote, “Rodchenko showed us an appalling variety of things—Suprematist paintings (preceded by the earliest geometrical things I’ve seen, 1915, done with compass)—woodcuts, linoleum cuts, posters, book designs, photographs, kino sets, etc….
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Varvara Stepanova
Russian, 1894–1958 63 works onlineThe collapse of the Russian Empire and the advent of the Soviet regime brought about fundamental changes in all areas of culture, and the visual arts were no exception.
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Liubov Popova
Russian, 1889–1924 27 works onlineWidely known for her abstract paintings, Popova was also an influential theoretician and educator who declared painting obsolete and committed herself to the applied arts, which became fundamental to the building of a new Soviet society after the October Revolution.
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