Mechanics album Word of Mouth, and the cover of the Franz Ferdinand album You Could Have It So Much Better. The poster for One-Sixth Part of the World was the basis for the cover of "Take Me Out", also by Franz Ferdinand. The end of painting In 1921, Rodchenko executed the first true monochrome paintings, first displayed in the 5x5=25 exhibition in Moscow. For artists of the Russian Revolution, Rodchenko's radical action was full of utopian possibility. It marked the end of easel painting – perhaps even the end of art – along with the end of bourgeois norms and practices. It cleared the way for the beginning of a new Russian life, a new mode of production, a new culture. Rodchenko later proclaimed, "I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: it's all over." Photobooks (published posthumously) Alexander Rodchenko. Edited by National Center of Cinematography and the moving image. New York: Pantheon, 1987. Rodchenko – Photography – 1924 ‐ 1954. Edited by Alexander Lavrentiev. UK: Könemann, 1995. Rodchenko. Edited by Peter MacGill. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2012. See also Anti-art List of Russian artists Russian avant-garde Sources Dabrowski, Magdalena, Leah Dickerman, Peter Galassi, A. N. Lavrentʹev, and V. A. Rodchenko. Aleksandr Rodchenko. New York, N. Y.: Museum of Modern Art, 1998. "Alexander Rodchenko: The Simple and the Commonplace," Hugh Adams. Artforum, Summer 1979. Page 28. References External links review of a recent exhibition of Rodchenko's art by C.B.Liddell "Partial Portrait of a Russian Artist," by William Meyers, Wall Street Journal, June 20, 2012 1891 births 1956 deaths Artists from Saint Petersburg People from Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd Abstract painters Russian avant-garde Russian graphic designers Photographers from Saint Petersburg Soviet painters Soviet photographers Constructivism (art) Collage artists 20th-century Russian painters Russian male painters Academic staff of Vkhutemas 20th-century Russian male artists Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry alumni