To the artists, the Revolution a was time to wipe out the old and put in the new. A moment of anticipation, the Revolution swirled in the hearts of the artists to create a utopian culture full of vitalogy fashioned and shaped by art. In the words of Kazimir Malevich, he declared "Let us seize [the world] from the hands of nature and build a new world belonging to [man] himself" (Gray 219). Through eyes of the avant-garde the Revolution presented a for certain conversion towards utopia.
In one of the first monographs on the Russian avant-garde, Camilla Gray published The Russian Experience in Art in 1967 in which she explains "The Revolution gave reality to their activity and a long sought direction to their energies-for there was no question in their minds of not identifying their revolutionary discoveries in the artistic field with this economic and political revolution" (219). Creating art under the epoch of Cubism and Futurism, the Russian avant-garde sought to generate an innovative fresh structure to their Revolutionary art.
Energized for change, the avant-garde awaited the moment when they could prove to their countrymen their alliance with the new government. "So anxious were they to prove themselves useful contributing members of this new society they took into their hands the active reorganization of the artistic life of the country" (Gray 219). Their culture would now officially be based upon and secured by implications of the newly formed government. .
In the months immediately following the Russian Revolution of 1917, "reigning political powers elevated a cultural avant-garde to a level never since attained by modernism" (Barron and Tuchman 12). The relationship between the government and the artist can be seen through Lenin's Plan for Monumental Propaganda. In April of 1918, Lenin introduced his plan to implement Marxist ideals in conjunction with art. Lenin's Plan For Monumental Propaganda is significant because it identifies for the first time the idea of a regime to include and have art play a central role in forming a new society and thus producing an entirely new vision upon its culture.