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- 2. Constructivism was aninvention of the Russian avant-garde that found adherents across the continent. Germany was the site of the most Constructivist activity outside of the Soviet Union but Constructivist ideas were also carried to other art centers, like Paris, London, and eventually the United States. Constructivist art is marked by a commitment to total abstraction and a wholehearted acceptance of modernity
- 3. Constructivists proposed toreplace art's traditional concern with composition with a focus on construction. Objects were to be created not in order to express beauty, or the artist's outlook, or to represent the world, but to carry out a fundamental analysis of the materials and forms of art, one which might lead to the design of functional objects.
- 4. For many Constructivists,this entailed an ethic of "truth to materials," the belief that materials should be employed only in accordance with their capacities, and in such a way that demonstrated the uses to which they could be put. It borrowed ideas from Cubism, Suprematism and Futurism, but at its heart was an entirely new approach to making objects, one which sought to abolish the traditional artistic concern with composition, and replace it with 'construction.'
- 5. Constructivist art oftenaimed to demonstrate how materials behaved - to ask, for instance, what different properties had materials such as wood, glass, and metal.
- 6. The seed ofConstructivism was a desire to express the experience of modern life - its dynamism, its new and disorientating qualities of space and time. But also crucial was the desire to develop a new form of art more appropriate to the democratic and modernizing goals of the Russian Revolution.
- 7. Constructivism was thelast and most influential modern art movement to flourish in Russia in the 20th century. Constructivist art was in part a progression from Russian Futurism, with stylistic signs of the earlier movement being evident in some of the angular industrial sculptures and reliefs of artists like Vladimir Tatlin and Naum Gabo. Vladimir Tatlin Naum Gabo
- 8. Constructivism Artists Valadimir tatlin Tatlin'sCounter-Reliefs
- 9. Naum Gabo The ConstructedHead No.2
- 10. The movement wasin favour of art as a practice for social purposes. Constructivism had a great effect on modern art movements of the 20th century, influencing major trends such as the Bauhaus and De Stijl movements. Its influence was widespread, with major effects upon architecture, sculpture, graphic design, industrial design, theatre, film, dance, fashion and, to some extent, music.
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- 12. De Stijl wasa circle of Dutch abstract artists who promoted a style of art based on a strict geometry of horizontals and verticals. Originally a publication, De Stijl was founded in 1917 by two pioneers of abstract art, Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg. De Stijl means style in Dutch.
- 13. As a movement,De Stijl influenced painting, decorative arts (including furniture design), typography, and architecture, but it was principally architecture that realized both De Stijl’s stylistic aims and its goal of close collaboration among the arts. The harmony and order was established through a reduction of elements to pure geometric forms and primary colors.
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- 15. Composition with Yellow,Blue, and Red, 1937-42
- 16. Theo van Doesburg DutchPainter, Designer, and Architect Contra-Construction Project (Axonometric)
- 17. Conclusion: Like other avant-gardemovements of the time, De Stijl, which means simply "the style" in Dutch, emerged largely in response to the horrors of World War I and the wish to remake society in its aftermath. Viewing art as a means of social and spiritual redemption, the members of De Stijl embraced a utopian vision of art and its transformative potential.
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