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CONSTRUCTIVISM

CONSTRUCTIVISM. Brief Background:. The principles of constructivism theory are derived from three main movements that evolved in the early part of the 20th century: Suprematism in Russia, De Stijl (Neo Plasticism ) in Holland and the Bauhaus in Germany.

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CONSTRUCTIVISM

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  1. CONSTRUCTIVISM

  2. Brief Background: • The principles of constructivism theory are derived from three main movements that evolved in the early part of the 20th century: Suprematism in Russia, De Stijl (Neo Plasticism) in Holland and the Bauhaus in Germany. • Committed to complete abstraction with a devotion to modernity • Themes are often geometric, experimental and rarely emotional. • Simple, flat, symbolic colors • Photography (rather than drawn illustrations) and photomontage

  3. Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953) • central to the birth of Russian Constructivism. • He is remembered most for his Monument to the Third International (1919-20). • Initially trained as an icon painter. • His work shows a desire to abolish the traditionally representational function of art and put it to new, more practical uses.

  4. Monument to the Third International(Vladimir Tatlin)1919-20

  5. Title: The Fish Monger (1911)

  6. El Lissitzky (1890 – 1941) • Russian born artist, designer, typographer, photographer and architect who designed many exhibitions and propaganda for the Soviet Union in the early 20th century. • Consequently, his designs, whether for graphic productions or buildings, were often unfiltered political messages.

  7. El LissitzkyProun Room 1923 (reconstructed 1971) El Lissitzky, Beat the Whites With the Red Wedge, lithograph, 1919

  8. New Man, 1921

  9. TYPOGRAPHY

  10. TYPOGRAPHY

  11. CONSTRUCTIVISMARCHITECTURE

  12. CONSTRUCTIVISM ARCHITECTURE: • emerged from the wider constructivist art movement. • it turned its attentions to the new social demands and industrial tasks required of the new regime. • it combined advanced technology and engineering with an avowedly communist social purpose.

  13. Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam by Leendert van der Vlugt (and Mart Stam) 1927-31

  14. Narkomtiazhprom, Vesnin brothers, 1934

  15. Lovell Beach House in Newport Beach, CAby Rudolph Schindler, 1926

  16. POSTERS

  17. COLOR SCHEME

  18. JEWELRY

  19. COSTUME

  20. References: www.moma.org/collection/details.php www.thearts.org/movement.constructivism www.pinterest.com/art-russian www.designhistory.com/constructivism http://www.theartstory.org/artist

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