Sergei Yakovlevich Senkin (1894–1963) was a twentieth-century

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artist, photographer, and illustrator. Senkin studied with Kasimir Malevitch during the 1920s in Vkhutemas. He sometimes visited Malevitch in

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with his friend

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. There, he developed his own approach to

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. He used a variety of artistic techniques such as graphic and poster design, photography and

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as well as painting. He worked together with Gustav Klutsis on agitational posters in 1922-1937. In 1928, he joined the Constructivist October Group. The same year, Senkin collaborated with artist and architect

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to create the

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for the '' Pressa'' exhibition in Cologne, Germany.

Gallery

File:Proletarian Student no. 2.jpg, Second edition of ''Proletarian Student,'' a 1923 journal by Senkin and

File:Sergei Senkin Non Objective Composition 1921.jpg, Non Objective Composition (1921)

References

{{Russia-artist-stub 1894 births 1963 deaths Russian male artists Constructivism (art) Russian muralists Russian graphic designers

Gallery

See also

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