1930
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1930 by Varvara Stepanova, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see bold black letters and sharp red shapes on a white sheet—like a page from a magazine or a poster. This was actually a letterhead for a Soviet journal in 1930. Stepanova designed it to look modern and fast, like the new machines and factories of the time. The letters don’t just sit there; they push forward, as if the words themselves are moving. Look up more work by Varvara Stepanova to see how she mixed words and images in the same bold way.
Varvara Fyodorovna Stepanova was a Russian artist. With her husband Alexander Rodchenko, she was associated with the Constructivist branch of the Russian avant-garde, which rejected aesthetic values in favour of…
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