Photomontage.
Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Tatlin at Home is an example of the fascination with Russia occurring in art during this period. Tatlin, an avant-garde Russian artist under the regime of Lenin, developed a plan for 'constructing' monuments of leaders of the Communist Revolution that would emphasize the collective nature instead of the individualist nature of Communism. Tatlin is not even present in this modern portrait of him. Instead, the face is an anonymous one to emphasize the collective nature of the Revolution. Tatlin "formulates its 'portrait' of the modern artist through the suggestion of mechanism and calculation rather than instinct and improvisation"(Fer 270). By using photomontage, Haussman brings in the idea oficonography again as well.