Constructivism Movement In Russian Art

In this essay I’m going to discuss Russian Constructivism and how it influenced and changed art in its time but also how it has then influenced other key design movements through the years after Russian Constructivism. Developing after World War I, the movement sought to push people to rebuild society in a Utopian model rather than the one that had led to the war.

The Russian avant-garde was a large and very important upsurge of modern art that rose in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union in 1890 to 1930. This word covers many different and also much related art movements that rose at the time such as Suprematism, Constructivism, Russian Futurism, Cubo-Futurism, Zaum and Neo-primitivism.

Russian Constructivism had started in 1913 and lasted

The themes are usually geometric and often experimental and never show any emotion due to the colours and shapes used. Objective methods carrying general meaning were far more suitable to the movement than biased or distinctive forms. Constructivist themes were also more quite minimal. Their artwork was broken down and made into the most basic elements.

The key designers of the Russian Constructivism movement were Vladimir Tatlin, El Lissitzky Laszlo, Moholy-Nagy, Alexander Rodchenko and many more. A lot of these designers’ ideas were photographic and graphic images for such things as posters, books, logs and advertisements. All these artists all had one thing in mind to create art work that was basic but also made you think about the materials and how the materials could do that. They all would use the same formula of less is more so they would use basic shapes and colours in their designs to create a message from there

Bauhaus was an art movement that started off as the modernist art school of the 20th century. Some of the lectures from the Bauhaus school were a number of constructivists. These lectures brought their methods of teaching and adopted them into the school. It had an approach of teaching and understanding technology to society. It was then later renamed as the arts and crafts movement which was all about fine arts and industry design. The Bauhaus building also has very clear influences from Constructivist architecture such as the shape of the building but most importantly the amount of light trying to be brought into the building its self. One side of the building is mostly a glass wall with a steel frame that is clearly visible just like the buildings from Constructivist. A lot of designs are very alike between both movements of Constructivism and Bauhaus as they both share the idea of odd shapes but while experimenting and trying to problem solve. Bauhaus idea was to unite design and manufacturing as it was starting to drift apart rethinking design for everyday life Vladimer Lenin is known as the father of the Soviet Union but he and Stalin had the same views on some things such as getting rid of religious but Stalin was much harsher in his rule. Lenin was one of the best architects from 1917 to 1924 but since both men were very alike they both had different ways of trying to