rocket zine blog: August 2011

Saturday 27 August 2011

alexander rodchenko

“Russian painter, sculptor, designer and photographer. He was a central exponent of Russian Constructivism, owing much to the pre-Revolutionary work of Malevich and Tatlin, and he was closely involved in the cultural debates and experiments that followed the Revolution of 1917. In 1921 he denounced, on ideological grounds, easel painting and fine art, and he became an exponent of Productivism (CONSTRUCTIVISM) in many fields, including poster design, furniture, photography and film. He resumed painting in his later years. His work was characterized by the systematic way in which from 1916 he sought to reject the conventional roles of self-expression, personal handling of the medium and tasteful or aesthetic predilections. His early nihilism and condemnation of the concept of art make it problematic even to refer to Rodchenko as an artist: in this respect his development was comparable to that of Dada, although it also had roots in the anarchic activities of Russian Futurist groups.” Source: all-art.org

rodchenko, exponent of russian constructivism, and wife varvara stepanova

Wednesday 24 August 2011

grunge

woody allen and paris

Everyone Says I Love You (1996)

“I'd really love you to come to Paris with me...”

“I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier.”

Hollywood Ending (2002)

“Cos here I'm a bum, but there a genius! Thank God the French exist!... This is my life's dream that I'm going to live in Paris!”

Midnight in Paris (2011)

“I can see myself living here, I feel like the Parisians kind of get me. I can see myself just strolling on the left bank with a baguette under my arm... what did Hemingway say?... He called it a 'movable feast'...”