CONSTRUCTIVISM

CONSTRUCTIVISM1919-1934

CONSTRUCTION

The Sailor: Self-Portrait (1911) Oil on canvas

Model for the 3rd International Tower (1919-1920)

Model for the 3rd International Tower (1919-1920)

The Staircase (1930)Woman with a child against the stern geometry

Camera position – innovative, yet balanced and flowing composition

PHOTOGRAPHY

Dance. An Objectless Composition (1915)No recognizable dancer can be seen

Only a divine spark of dance comes across

FUTURIST PAINTING

Books (The Advertisement Poster for the LengizPublishing House) (1924)

He updated Russian advertising, using geometric compositions and strident(harsh) colors to trumpet modernity

PHOTOMONTAGE

Maquette for the Advertisement of the Red October Bisquittes (1923)

Mayakovsky-Rodchenko: Advertising Constructors

DESIGN (work for Russian industry)

Believed that the artist could be an agent for change, which he summarized to “goal-oriented creation”

Began his career in illustrating children books, a teacher for much of his career and an innovator

Although often highly abstract and theoretical, Lissitzky's work was able speak to the prevailing political discourse of his native Russia, and then the nascent Soviet Union

His Proun series of two-dimensional Suprematist paintings sought to combine architecture and three-dimensional space with traditional, albeit abstract, two-dimensional imagery.

He was important in exporting Constructivist ideas to Germany

El Lissitzky in a self-portrait (1914)

The Runner (1930)The segmented photo mimics the effect of perceiving objects in motion

PHOTOMONTAGE

Proun 99 (1925)An effort to create three-dimensional environments in which

two-dimensional shapes could exist in direct contrast to the space

SUPERMATISM

Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (1919)Red wedge – Bolsheviks

White circle – Kerensky forces

LITHOGRAPHY

USSR, The Russian exhibition poster (1929)

Equality of the sexes

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Vladimir Tatlin,Corner Counter-Relief (1914)

Sculpture with spatial qualities made of Iron, copper, wood and strings

El LissitzskyProun Room (1923)

Geometric Proun compositions into a room environment

Naum Gabo,Head No. 2 (1916)

Stereometric construction – Form through space rather than mass

Lyubov Popova,Textile Design (1924)

Vladimir Mayakovsky, Agitprop poster (1924)"Want it? Join“

1.You want to overcome cold?2. You want to overcome hunger? 3. You want to eat? 4. You want to drink?

Vasilily Yermilov

Victor Pasmore

Lyubov Popova

Alexander Vesnin

Vladimir Mayakovsky

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