Avant-garde during the Lenin Era

What was Avant-Garde?

A wave of experimentation in culture

How was art impacted by Avant-garde?

Artists attempted to convey visions of the future world using styles such as Modernism and Abstract art.

What poet and playwright helped produce poster propaganda and slogans for the party?

V. Mayakovsky

What two artists known as ‘fellow travellers’ produced work in the 1920s?

Image: Malevich

K. Malevich and V. Kandinsky

Image: Painting by Kandinsky

Why did the Bolsheviks put so much stress on visual art?

The literacy rates were very low

Who led the Avant-garde movement in theatre? What play did he produce?

Vyacheslav Meyerhold who produced the pageant Mystery Bouffe (1918) which was a fantasy based on the workers defeating their exploiters.

Who was a famous filmmaker?

Sergei Eisenstein who made Strike by 1924