On Some Vistas Disclosed by Mathematics to the Russian Avant-Garde: Geometry, El Lissitzky and Gabo

Generally speaking, all avant-garde movements have had one characteristic in common: belief in the new. It is also true that all of those movements were aware of changes, progress and advances in science. As a consequence, non-Euclidean geometry was considered a manifesto for revolution in the arts. This article discusses the visualization of mathematics—the process of transferring concepts from mathematics to works of art—with examples from the artworks and writings of El Lissitzky and Naum Gabo.