This article will explore Vladimir Tatlin and Naum Gabo's differences on the role of avant-garde artists and how their beliefs influence the type of work they produced. A pioneer of Russian design Vladimir Tatlin is a representative of Russian realism. He left home when he was fifteen and served on board the ship. When he became a painter, he often depicted sailors in his paintings. Art and culture in post-revolutionary Russia was a tool for creating an industrial aesthetic reality. Tatlin's project The Monument to the Third International (1920), which can be considered both an architectural work and a sculptural piece, consists of an iron spiral that expands diagonally and is enclosed by glass walls much higher than of the Eiffel Tower. It was never embodied in life, but this project demonstrates that the propagation of the socialist order was of primary importance for the artists of the beginning of the 20th century in Russia (Avant-garde, Tatlin). Therefore, according to Tatlin, the avant-garde artist transfers the ideas of the social reality of his modernity. In his project Tatlin wanted to reflect the technological progress of post-revolutionary Russia. He was defined as “an artist of great culture, a true master, a devoted worker for the proletarian revolution” (Avant-Garde – Abstraction in Constructivism). Tatlin, V. Model of the Monument to the Third International Naum Gabo is another representative of Constructivism and in his Realist Manifesto (1920) Gabo argued that it was relevant and in the spirit of an era to replace static mass with dynamic form. He said of himself: “making images to communicate my feelings towards the world” (Gabo, 1962). Gabo considered the artist a talented master, capable of achieving mome...... middle of paper ......aesthetics and defending the freedom of creation; defends the subjectivity of the work of art, the conscious process of creation. In conclusion Vladimir Tatlin and Naum Gabo have differences on the role of the avant-garde artist. According to Tatlin, avant-garde artists transfer ideas of the social reality of his modernity, and Gabo stated that it was relevant in the spirit of an era to replace static mass with dynamic form. Although both Tatlin and Gabo's work were influenced by conceptually different beliefs, their works are both depicted in an abstract manner. Works cited Avant-garde – Abstraction in constructivism: "The monument to the Third International" by Vladimir Tatlin. Available from: Gabo, N. Of Divers Arts. New York: Faber and Faber, 1962.