Well, all the same collect his thoughts and write, but do not be alarmed: half - quotes.
About Tatlin difficult to write because this great artist, in fact, - a man - the myth:
Genius painter, who, according to the memoirs of contemporaries, did not receive sketches - just finished work. "He has not obtained sketches from the model and a model, but quite complete, accurate calculated products - the monumental, compelling and beautiful in shape and color ... Ivory burning or soot, gas, and some ochres, sienna, umber and emerald greens - his favorite color. Looking at his work, it is impossible to guess how he managed to dispose of these unpretentious colors, contrasting them so that it seems a rich, multi-color palette. (Khodasevich). All of his paintings is dense - he burned his own built in stove.
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The brilliant innovator, who always accused of plagiarism: the idea he allegedly spied on a Picasso. From picturesque landscape - corner reliefs - kontrrelefov. From the name change - are not changed - it is the picture "tearing the plane and" throw-away "in the surrounding three-dimensional reality." Preserved, mostly only photographic reproduction in magazines and catalogs. Apparently, because the store in its original form was not possible. Even loyal fans Punin kept kontrrelef Tatlin "in parts of the closet.
The brilliant designer of unrealized projects:
Monument III International - Tatlinskaya tower.
Even if most have seen photos of models, very few people that, in fact, was to represent themselves from this "monument". Here is an excerpt from the brochure, which speaks for itself:
N. Punin. Monument III International. Petersburg, 1920
In 1919, the Division of Fine Arts of the People's Commissariat of Education was charged thin. VE Tatlin to draft a memorial III International. Artist Tatlin immediately started to work and performed the project. Then artists VE Tatlin, IA Meerzon, MP Vinogradov, and TM Shapiro, united in a "creative collective", detailed the project and built the model. (In fairness, it should be noted that the glass work performed S. Dymshits-Fat).
The main idea of the monument was formed on the basis of the principles of organic synthesis of architecture, sculpture and paintings, and had to give a new type of monumental structures, which combine the purely artistic form with a form of utilitarian. In agreement with this idea of design of the monument consists of three large glass room constructed on an elaborate system of vertical rods and spirals. These facilities are located one above the other and placed in various harmonically related forms. Thanks to a special kind of mechanisms, nor should be in motion various speeds. Bottom area (A), introducing in its form a cube moves around Svay axis at a rate of one revolution per year and is intended for legal purposes. It can happen International Conference, meetings of international congresses and other major legislative assembly. The next room (B), in the form of a pyramid, rotates on an axis at a rate of one full fight in a month and is intended for the purposes of the executive (the International Board, the secretariat and other administrative and executive bodies). Finally, the upper cylinder (C), rotating at a speed of one revolution per day, has in mind centers information purposes: information bureau, newspapers, leaflets, pamphlets and manifestos, in short, all the diversity of a widespread awareness of the international proletariat, such as the telegraph, the projection lights for the big screen, are placed on the axes of the spherical segment (A1 - B1), and for the sake of masts which rise above the monument. No need to specify the scope of equipment and all facilities; details of the project does not provide, they can be discussed and selected for further development of the monument. Should be pointed out that, according to the artist Tatlin, glass rooms designed for double wall with vacuum (thermos), so it will be easy to keep the temperature inside the room. Some parts of the monument, as well as all the buildings will be connected to the ground and between them extremely complex design with electric lifts, adapted to different rotational velocities of the premises. These are the technical basis of the project.
Another "Letatlin" - the same unfinished project, but some constructive ideas Tatlin interest of aircraft and something they have been used in the design of aircraft. Tatlin even received money for it. There have been several attempts to make a real test "Letatlina. However, for various reasons, the test never took place.
"Letatlin" exhibited in the Pushkin Museum of Art and the Museum of the history of aviation, Monino, Moscow region.
Nikolai Punin, great admirer of Tatlin, tried to link it with the new Renaissance of art. Paradoxically, but after 100 years Tatlin really be compared to Leonardo: by how little was left of his creative offspring. I can only hope that after many years of his paintings and constructive ideas will be implemented yet ...