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Constructivism was an avant-garde art movement that originated in Russia in the 1910s and 1920s. It aimed to replace traditional artistic concerns with a focus on the construction of functional objects using modern industrial materials. Constructivists believed that art should serve social purposes. The movement had a significant influence on later styles like Bauhaus and De Stijl. De Stijl was a Dutch movement founded in 1917 with a strict geometric style based on horizontals and verticals. Key artists included Piet Mondrian, known for his primary color compositions, and Theo van Doesburg. Both Constructivism and De Stijl aimed to integrate art with architecture and design.

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Constructivism Art

Constructivism was an avant-garde art movement that originated in Russia in the 1910s and 1920s. It aimed to replace traditional artistic concerns with a focus on the construction of functional objects using modern industrial materials. Constructivists believed that art should serve social purposes. The movement had a significant influence on later styles like Bauhaus and De Stijl. De Stijl was a Dutch movement founded in 1917 with a strict geometric style based on horizontals and verticals. Key artists included Piet Mondrian, known for his primary color compositions, and Theo van Doesburg. Both Constructivism and De Stijl aimed to integrate art with architecture and design.

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  • Constructivism Art Overview: Explores the origin, principles, and impact of Constructivism art with focus on total abstraction and modernization.
  • Constructivism Artists: Profiles key Constructivist artists like Vladimir Tatlin and Naum Gabo with their contributions.
  • De Stijl Art Overview: Discusses the De Stijl movement's principles, its foundation, and stylistic aims.
  • De Stijl Artists: Highlights influential De Stijl artists and their renowned works.
  • Conclusion and References: Concludes with reflections on avant-garde movements and provides references for further reading.

Constructivism Art

Constructivism was an invention 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
Constructivists proposed to replace 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.
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.'
Constructivist art often aimed to
demonstrate how materials behaved -
to ask, for instance, what different
properties had materials such as wood,
glass, and metal.
The seed of Constructivism 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.
Constructivism was the last 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
Constructivism Artists
Valadimir tatlin
Tatlin's Counter-Reliefs
The Constructed Head No.2
Naum Gabo
The movement was in 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.
De Stijl Art
De Stijl was a 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.
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.
Arist
Piet Mondrian,
Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red, 1937-42
Theo van Doesburg
Dutch Painter, Designer, and Architect
Contra-Construction Project (Axonometric)
Conclusion:
Like other avant-garde movements 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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