![]() ![]() The New Art Movement: Constructivism El Lissitzky, The Constructor: Self-Portrait, 1924, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK. At the time artists were all about moving forward. It is futuristic, containing new tools, and new styles. Lisskitzky’s poster exemplified the objectives of the Constructivist movement. The white background may represent a bright future ahead of the nation. It symbolically refers to the Red revolutionaries penetrating and prevailing over the White Army. In this dynamic composition, a vast red triangle pierces into a white circle. Two sides of the conflict are represented by the red triangle (the revolutionary Red Army) and the white circle (the anti-Communist White Army). Lissitzky attempt at propagandistic art was in support of the Red Army. Composition and Symbolism El Lissitzky, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, 1919, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MS, USA. Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge was created shortly after the Bolsheviks had waged their Russian Revolution of 1917, during the Russian Civil War. ![]() After a series of Revolutions, the abdication of the Tsar, and the Civil War, a new government was established. This, combined with the rise of the revolutionary consciousness led to social unrest, workers’ strikes, and military rebellion. People were moving to the cities where the working class was growing. Some of them were famine, inflation, and the economic crisis after World War I. To give a little bit of context, Russian society faced numerous problems at the beginning of the 20th century. Historial Background Lenin speaks to the public during the 1917 Revolution, 1917, Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is considered a symbol of the Russian Civil War, showing both sides of the conflict in a propagandistic manner. ![]() Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge ( Клином красным бей белых!) is a 1919 lithographic Soviet propaganda poster by artist Lazar Markovich Lissitzky, better known as El Lissitzky. ![]()
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