“PROUN is understood as the creative construction of form (based on the mastery of space) assisted by economic construction of the applied material. The goal of PROUN is progressive movement on the way to concrete creation, and not the substantiation, explanation, or promotion of life.”

—  El Lissitsky

1915 - 1925, Theses on the 'PROUN': from painting to architecture' (1920)

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Soviet artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer… 1890–1941

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