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Musical Expression to Constructivist Painting
A Tate Modern exhibition in London, is holding a Rodchenko and Popova music event (Sat 9, May, 2009) "Composers such as Dmitri Shostakovitch , Nikolai Roslavets and Arthur Lourie gave muscial expression to many of the themes" that the Russion painters Rodchenko and Popova explored in their paintings. " Liubov Popova (1889-1924) and Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956) were pivotal figures in the debates and discussions that defined Constructivism.   ... "The Constructivists compared the artist to an engineer, arranging materials scientifically and objectively, and producing art works as rationally as any other manufactured object... There was already a distinct strain of utopianism in the Russian avant-garde – a determination to reinvent art, as if f…