Avant-Garde and Revolution: Malevich, Tatlin, Constructivism The second lecture in the series "Nonconformists: Art Against the System"

Utopia on canvas.
In 1917, the long-held dreams of the Futurists seemed to come true.
Artists once out of sync with public taste suddenly became essential to the new state.
Malevich teaches, Tatlin builds the Tower, schools and manifestos emerge.
But freedom gained in a rush soon turns into a new dogma — and exile.

We’ll explore how the avant-garde became official, then inconvenient.
How Constructivism melted into slogans, and why Malevich’s Suprematism stood apart from ideology.
And yes — we’ll finally answer why the Black Square is black, and whether your kid really could paint it.