EL LISSITZKY
Lazar Markovich Lissitzky, known as El Lissitzky, was a Russian Jewish-Ukrainian artist from Pochinok. He was a prominent figure in the Russian avant-garde movement and attributed his style to Suprematism, a type of abstract art that is meant to turn the viewer’s focus towards their feelings about the art presented, rather than what the art is in reality: “pure artistic feeling.” Lissitzky was interested in several fields of art, he was a painter, designer, architect, and photographer. Some of his famous works include “Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge,” “Proun,” and “The Constructor,” which all demonstrate the suprematic use of geometrical shapes and patterns.
