El Lissitzky

El (Lazar Markovich) Lissitzky (1890 - 1941) Proun 19D (omkr. 1922) (gips, olja, collage etc på plywood) The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Proun (pronounced pro-oon) is an acronym for the Russian words for "Project for the Affirmation of the New," with which Lissitzky entitled his work between 1919 and 1927. The collaged and painted forms reconceive space and serve as a metaphor for the fundamental transformations in society that Lissitzky thought would result from the Russian Revolution. In the early 1920s, while many of his colleagues renounced painting, which they viewed as elitist, in favor of utilitarian arts such as furniture and graphic design, Lissitzky remained committed to painting as a means to articulate his utopian vision. Ref. MoMA