The Reality of Our Plan is Active People
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.Razulevich initially produced this photomontage in 1932 to decorate Leningrad’s Uritsky Square (now Saint Petersburg’s Palace Square) for the fifteenth anniversary of the October Revolution. The artist combined more than three hundred images from the state archives into an enormous, seamless whole, about twenty-three yards long. The industrial landscape in the background was a composite of several images of the major construction projects undertaken as part of Stalin’s first Five-Year Plan (1928–32). Smaller copies of the photomural were installed in train stations throughout the city.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Reality of Our Plan is Active People
- Artist: Mikhail Rozulevich (Russian, active 1930s)
- Date: 1933
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: Image: 28.8 x 47 cm (11 5/16 x 18 1/2 in.)
Frame: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Fellows of Photography Fund
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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