Alexander Rodchenko famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of the object.
-- Alexander Rodchenko

#Men #Order #Perspective
We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.
-- Alexander Rodchenko

#Eye #Perception #Veils
One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again.
-- Alexander Rodchenko

#Views #Keys #Different
Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion of the objects, with a crude handling of matter. Moments altogether new, never seen before compositions whose boldness outstrips the imagination of painters Then the creation of those instants which do not exist, contrived by means of photomontage. The negative transmits altogether new stimuli to the sentient mind and eye.
-- Alexander Rodchenko

#Strong #Mean #Eye
I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of painting.
-- Alexander Rodchenko

#Blue #Yellow #Red
I want to take some quite incredible photographs that have never been taken before... pictures which are simple and complex at the same time, which will amaze and overwhelm people ... I must achieve this so that photography can begin to be considered a form of art.
-- Alexander Rodchenko

#Photography #Art #Taken
Donâ€™t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.
-- Alexander Rodchenko

#Taken #Men #Trying
The viewer who sees only a study in the picture of the glass jug illuminated from behind fails to appreciate the masterly composition, the noble purity of the lines, the rich plasticity of the form and consequently also the poetry and beauty of the picture, and still more important, its specifically photographic qualities.
-- Alexander Rodchenko

#Glasses #Appreciate #Important
Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.
-- Alexander Rodchenko

#Photography #Art #Rights
Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.
-- Alexander Rodchenko

#Photography #Art #Age

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