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Alexander Rodchenko
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“I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue and yellow. I affirmed: it's all over. Basic colors. Every plane is a plane and there is to be no representation.”
Alexander Rodchenko (1891–1956) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rodchenko is looking back: in 1921 he executed what were arguably some of the first true monochromes (artworks of one color; source, Wikipedia:Rodchenko)
“[my goal is] to photograph not a factory but the work itself from the most effective point of view.. ..in order to show the grandness of a machine, one should photograph not all of it but give a series of snapshots.”
Alexander Rodchenko (1891–1956) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote, 1930: from Rodchenko lecture at the October group's meeting; as quoted by Margarita Tupitsyn in Chapter 'Fragmentation versus Totality: The Politics of (De)framing', in The great Utopia - The Russian and Soviet A…
“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 (1891–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source