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Vladimir Tatlin Quotes

1885–1953 Russia

Vladimir Yevgraphovich Tatlin (8 December 1885 – 31 May 1953) was a Soviet painter and architect. With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Soviet avant-garde art movement of the 1920's; later he became an important artist in the Constructivist movement.

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It [ [his Tower ] was to be dynamic, both in its outward form and inward activity..

Let's split open our figures and place the environment inside them.

The influence of my art is expressed in the movement of the Constructivists, of which I am the founder – Tatlin.

The engineers made hard forms. Evil. With angles. They are easily broken. The world is round and soft..

[iron and glass, the] 'materials of the new Classicism'.

In reinforced concrete we have not only a new material but, of far greater consequence, new constructions and a new method for designing buildings. Therefore, in using [reinforced concrete], we have to renounce the old traditions and concern ourselves with meeting new tasks.

The dream [of flying] is as old as Icarus.. .I too want to give back to man the feeling of flight [with his 'Letatlin'-air-bike, 1929-1932]. This we have been robbed of by the mechanical flight of the aeroplane. We cannot feel the movement of our body in the air.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Vladimir Tatlin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.