Proun 19D

Mediums: plywood, oil, varnish, pencil, colored and emery paper, foil.
Location: Museum of Modern Art of New York (the USA).

In the proun-collage (short for “project of the approval of the new”), Lissitzky not only solved the problems of constructing the structure but also introduced textured innovations. For this purpose, he used sandpaper and silver metal foil. Like other Constructivists, the artist used drawing instruments – a ruler, a square, a pair of compasses, which was completely unacceptable in traditional painting. While Cubists, having gone the way of geometric experiments, mainly returned to Realism, Lissitzky, getting some knowledge of exact construction, reached the junction of painting with architecture. His prouns did not become a game with geometric objects, but surrealistic resemblances of plans for non-existent buildings.