Rodchenko's Influences
Rodchenko's major influences were Kazimir Malevich and Vladimir Tatlin. Malevich was a Russian artist whose career coincided with the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. As the founder of the school of Suprematism, his ideas about forms and meaning would lay the foundation for non-objective, or abstract, art making.
Vladimir Tatlin was pivotal to the Russian Constructivism movement. He was inspired by Pablo Picasso's Cubist reliefs, and from Russian Futurism. Schooled as an icon painter, he abandoned the traditional painting, and focused on the materials he used - often metal, glass and wood. He desired to have art adhere to modern purposes.
A work by Kasmir Malevich.