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Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
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to problems of the proletariat. Lenin supported this idea and suppressed
many areas of art regarded as useless from the point of view of the pro-
letariat. For example, Tatlin and Rodchenko determined that an artistic
representation would be of no use to a worker in his day-to-day life and
decided that painting was an invalid form of art!
In 1921, this new understanding of art, called "constructivism," be-
came the Soviet Union's official art policy. Tatlin, in the forefront of this
way of thinking, thought it was necessary to do something "useful" like
designing houses and furniture, instead of painting useless pictures. To
contribute to the life of the proletariat, he designed clothing for them to
wear during their long working hours, to provide them with the greatest
warmth and flexibility with the least weight and expenditure of raw ma-
terials. He also designed a kind of stove, which would give the greatest
heat with the least amount of fuel.
All artists did not become "engineers" like Tatlin, but they did ac-
cept the idea of "proletarian art" and used their talents to serve
Communist ideology. Almost all Soviet artists of the time produced
posters, signs and slogans for use in workers' clubs and small gatherings
called "soviets." All shared common images: vigorous, well-muscled
Soviet villagers and workers with a hammer or a sickle in hand, angry
proletarian figures standing up and breaking their chains into pieces,
armed soldiers marching beneath
red banners under Lenin's leader-
ship...

Aleksander
Rodchenko, a
leader in
"Socialist
Realism."