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Sergei Eisenstein – Formal Critique of Strike Art is often looked at in relationship to the historical context of the art and the connections that may or may not exist between the artwork and the artist, but when reading the critiques of critics such as Roger Fry, one can see a different approach to criticizing art. Fry suggested through his writings that art has little or no meaningful connection with either the artist who makes it or the culture to which it belongs and that we should analyze works of art out of context –as pure form, rather than as expressions of time and place. He and many other formalist critics concluded that art can be viewed without its cultural context and can viewed in the alphabet of the artist, the language of line, shape, space, color, light, and dark, and through this understanding of the art language, the work of many can be formally critiqued. Film is a form of art and a form of expression, and through Sergei Eisenstein’s Strike and his use of the infamous montage, one can see that his films are no different from the artwork of many masters of paint or marble. Sergei Eisenstein, a Russian film director, screenwriter, editor, and theoretician who was educated in engineering but took a tu