Vladimir Tatlin. The model for the Monument to the Third International, 1919. A 400-m high tower with a metal frame composed of two spirals narrowing in the upward, comprised four volumes in the internal space behind the skeletal frame of the main volume. These volumes each hanging over another rotated at different speeds. The bottom cube that was the siege of the Comintern legislative bodies was to rotate at a speed of 1 turn a year. The truncated pyramid - the location of the executive bodies 1 turn a month, the cylinder with the secretariat rotated at a speed of 1 turn a week and the semi-sphere completed the composition. The tower is not so much a utility object as a striking romantic artistic symbol of the Revolution.
