Constructivism was an avant-garde art movement that originated in Russia in the 1910s-1920s. It sought to reject the past and create an art that promoted order, unity, and peace. Key artists included Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, and Alexander Rodchenko, who created reductive works using basic geometric elements that explored the relationship between art and its social function.

1. Constructivism1915-1940By: Nicole del Monaco

2. ArtistWassily Kandinsky Laszlo Moholy-NagyEl LissitzkyAlexander Rodchenko

3. ConstructivismThe term "Constructivism" describes both an art and an attitude towards life and art that originated in RussiaConstructivism was an invention of the Russian avant-garde that found adherents across the continent.The art is often very reductive as well, paring the artwork down to its basic elementsThe Constructivists sought an art of order, which would reject the past (the old order which had culminated in World War I) and lead to a world of more understanding, unity, and peace.

4. Wassily Kandinsky Was"Composition VIII". 1923 yearOil on canvas140х201 smsily Kandinsky

5. Wassily Kandinsky "Small Dream In Red". 1925 yearOil on cardboard35,5х41,2 smBern Kunstmuseum

6. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Study with pins and ribbons 1937-38, color print, assembly (Vivex) process 34.9 x 26.5 cm. Gift of Walter Clark,GEHNEG: 31357 ,78:1421:0007

7. El LissitzkyProun 2C, oil, paper and metal on wood, 60 x 40cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art, A. E. Gallatin Collection (Proun Inv. 14), c1920.

8. Alexander RodchenkoDance, an Objectless Composition 1915

9. Alexander RodchenkoSuprematist Composition 1918Suprematist Composition 191Suprematist Composition 1918

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