“In 1922 Kozintsev and I exhibited in the “Left Stream Exhibition” in Leningrad, which included not only the famous “Black and White Square”, but also another picture by Tatlin which represented nothing at all—the canvas was simply and uniformly covered with a wash of pink paint. That was really the end of the line.

Our paintings . . . were joyous collages. . . . Variegated mosaics, strong in colour. . . .

And they earned us criticism. . . . I recall . . . Punin . . . saying to us scornfully, ‘If you go on in this fashion you’ll end up in the cinema.’”

—Sergei Yutkevitch, 1966; Cinema In Revolution, edited by Luda and Jean Schnitzer and Marcel Martin, translated by David Robinson, 1973.