Vladimir Tatlin and Naum Gabo Modern Art Essay -- compare, contrast, ar

This paper will explore Vladimir Tatlin and Naum Gabo differences on the role of the Avant-Garde artists and how their beliefs influence the kind of work they produced. A pioneer of Russian design Vladimir Tatlin is a representative of Russian Realism. He left home when he was fifteen and served on the shipboard. When he became a painter, he often represented sailors in his pictures Art and culture in Russia after Revolution was a tool for creating industrially aesthetical reality. Tatlin’s project The Monument to the Third International (1920) one that so much can be considered an architectural work as a sculptural piece, it constituted by a spiral of iron that is expanded diagonally and enclosed by walls of glass of a much higher height to that of the Eiffel tower. It was never embodied into life, but this project shows that socialist order propagation was of primary concern for artists of the beginning of 20th century in Russia (Avant-Garde, Tatlin). Thus, in accordance wit h Tatlin, avant-garde artist transfers ideas of social reality of his modernity. In his project Tatlin wanted to reflect technological progress of post-revolutionary Russia. He was called â€Å"artist of great culture, a true master, who is a devoted worker for the proletarian revolution† (Avant-Garde – Abstraction in Constructivism). Tatlin, V. Model of the Monument to the Third International Naum Gabo is another representative of Constructivism and in his Realist Manifesto (1920) Gabo claimed that it was relevant and in the spirit of an epoch to substitute static mass with a dynamic form. He said about himself: â€Å"making images to communicate my feelings of the world†(Gabo, 1962). Gabo considered an artist as a talented master, who is able to catch up mome... ...sthetics and defends the liberty of creation; he defends the subjective thing in the work of art, the conscious process of creation. In conclusion Vladimir Tatlin and Naum Gabo have differences on the role of the Avant-Garde artist. According to Tatlin, avant-garde artist transfer ideas of social reality of his modernity and Gabo claimed that it was relevant in the spirit of an epoch to substitute static mass with a dynamic form. Even though both Tatlin and Gabo’s work were influenced by conceptually different beliefs their works are both represented abstractedly. Works Cited Avant-Garde – Abstraction in Constructivism: Vladimir Tatlin's 'The Monument to the Third International'. Available from: Gabo, N. Of Divers Arts. New York: Faber and Faber, 1962.