Moholy-Nagy in Dialog with the Russian Avant-Garde

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Let's start with the beginning: Malevich; his Peasant Woman that Goes for Water is one of the most important steps in his journey beyond Cubism


Kazimir Malevich - A Peasant Woman Goes for Water
lithograph

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Ivan Puni - Suprematist Construction Montage, 1915-1916
painted wood, metal and cardboard

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El Lissitzky, the most fascinating artist of Rusiann Avant-Garde

El Lissitzky - Wendingen, 1921
lithographic cover for the journal Wendingen

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That's what I like most, from this room: the oil on wood by Rodchenko; an ancient Russian tale expressed in Avant-Garde style.

Aleksandr Rodchenko - Untitled, 1919
oil on wood

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And here comes László Moholy-Nagy!

...a lithograph suggesting a neon tube turning in space...

Moholy-Nagy - Construction, 1923
Lithograph

...a drawing that pulls light from carbon paper...

Moholy-Nagy - Q, 1922-1923
collage with watercolor and pen and ink over graphite on carbon paper

...a painting that seems to refract light through translucent prisms...


Moholy-Nagy - Z VII, 1926
oil on canvas

...a camera-less photograph (with a print made from it) in which objects placed on and above photo-sensitized paper leave mysterious shadows, literally fixing light - or unfixing it...

Moholy Nagy - Untitled, 1925-28
gelatin silver print

Moholy Nagy - Untitled, 1925-28
gelatin silver print photogram

Moholy-Nagy - Radio Tower Berlin, 1928
gelatin silver print

Moholy-Nagy - Abstraction II, 1922
linocut

Moholy-Nagy - Abstraction III, 1922
linocut

(the same, with flash)

Moholy-Nagy - Europa, c.1921
collage with ink on paper

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(Washington DC National Gallery of Art)

(Suprematism and Constructivism)