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Alexander Rodchenko

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Alexander Rodchenko

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Also known as Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodchenko, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Alexandr Rodchenko, Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Rodčenko, Alexander Rodčenko, Alexander Michajlowitsch Rodschenko, Alexander Michailowitsch Rodtschenko, Aleksandr. Rodčenko

Russian artist, sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer (1891—1955)

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Alexander Rodchenko was a Russian painter, photographer, sculptor, and architect associated with the Constructivism, cubism, and Suprematism movements. Born in Saint Petersburg, he worked in Paris, Kazan, and Moscow. His artistic output included abstract art, portraits, geometric abstraction, and genre art, with a specific focus on photography, visual arts, and the avant-garde. He was married to Varvara Stepanova.

Rodchenko’s works are held in collections including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. He was buried in the Donskoe cemetery in Moscow. His citizenship included the Russian Empire, the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, the Soviet Union, and Russia.

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Person · Open Library

Works
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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Austria
Active from
1926-06-30
Active to
2011-02-12
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Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2
Total plays
2

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

    · 2012 · cited 51,063x

  2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,600x

  3. ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge

    · 2015 · cited 30,538x

  4. SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

    · 2012 · cited 24,595x

  5. QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials

    · 2009 · cited 22,968x

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Quotes

  • “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.”
  • “[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.”
  • “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.”

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Key facts

Born
Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko , ( 1891-12-05 ) 5 December 1891, Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire
Died
3 December 1956 (1956-12-03) (aged 64), Moscow , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
Known for
Painting, photography
Notable work
Books-Poster (1924)
Movement
Constructivism
Spouse
Varvara Stepanova

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Encyclopedic overview

Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (Russian: Александр Михайлович Родченко; 5 December [O.S. 23 November] 1891 – 3 December 1956) was a Russian and Soviet artist, sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova.

Rodchenko was one of the most versatile constructivist and productivist artists to emerge after the Russian Revolution. He worked as a painter and graphic designer before turning to photomontage and photography. His photography was socially engaged, formally innovative, and opposed to a painterly aesthetic. Concerned with the need for analytical-documentary photo series, he often shot his subjects from odd angles—usually high above or down below—to shock the viewer and to postpone recognition. He wrote: "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."

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