Abstract
The aim of this article is to connect the history of Red Sport International (RSI) with the history of Constructivist Art in Russia and Czechoslovakia in the years of 1921–1928. It investigates the various ways in which avant-garde artists were engaged in promoting worker sports. It shows then how it differed from traditional sport-themed artworks as Constructivists intended to reject museums and galleries in favour of creating art for proletarian masses. Architectural sketches, photomontages, postcards, photography, film, sport, and artistic magazines were the means by which artistic propaganda of RSI in Russia and Czechoslovakia up to the 1st Spartakiad in Moscow and the 2nd Spartakiad in Prague (1928) evolved. Showing a range of artistic projects made by Constructivists from Vkhutemas school in Russia and Devětsil members in Czechoslovakia this article shows that the ideas of fighting for socialism promoted by RSI took place not only in the field of sports, but also in the artistic field – in the field of physical and visual culture alike.
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