Constructivism
Revolutionary geometric abstraction
Constructivism was an early twentieth-century art movement originating in Russia that emphasized abstract, geometric forms and the use of industrial materials.
Artists like Tatlin and Rodchenko rejected decorative art in favor of functional design serving social purposes: The museum's Constructivism exhibit featured angular sculptures of metal and glass.
The movement influenced architecture, graphic design, and typography. (Lowercase constructivism is the philosophical or educational theory.)
Belief in group dominance
- geometricRelating to mathematical shapes
- collageAssembled mixed-media artwork
- montageAssembled sequence of images
- assemblageCollected group of things
kinetic · sculpture · avant-garde · industrial · propaganda · photomontage · relief · abstraction
Arranging letters for display
- posterDisplayed printed notice
- BauhausInfluential modernist design school
- photomontageCombined image artwork
- graphicVividly detailed or visual
layout · diagonal · sans-serif · propaganda · agitprop · book design · exhibition · furniture
Beam supported one end
- geometricRelating to mathematical shapes
- industrialOf factories and production
- concreteSolid building mixture
- glassTransparent solid from sand
steel · asymmetry · dynamism · functionalism · communal housing · modernism · utopian · volumetric
suprematism
Belief in group dominance
- geometricRelating to mathematical shapes
- collageAssembled mixed-media artwork
- montageAssembled sequence of images
assemblage · kinetic · sculpture · avant-garde · industrial · propaganda · photomontage · relief · abstraction · agitprop
typography
Arranging letters for display
- posterDisplayed printed notice
- BauhausInfluential modernist design school
- photomontageCombined image artwork
graphic · layout · diagonal · sans-serif · propaganda · agitprop · book design · exhibition · furniture · textile
cantilever
Beam supported one end
- geometricRelating to mathematical shapes
- industrialOf factories and production
- concreteSolid building mixture
glass · steel · asymmetry · dynamism · functionalism · communal housing · modernism · utopian · volumetric
- architectureEiffel Tower, buildings, architects, design, thatching
- art stylesimpressionism, surrealism, cubism, realism, pop art
- paintingoil painting, watercolor, acrylic paint, oils, oil paints
- architecture stylesart deco, Art Nouveau, minimalism, modernism, Modernism
- art historyart history, Renaissance, Baroque, Impressionism, modern art
- Design HistoryArt Nouveau, Bauhaus, mid-century modern, Modernism, Postmodernism
ConstructivismArt Nouveau
Curvilinear decorative movement, 1890s
Rococo · Baroque · decorative arts · Aestheticism · Arts and Crafts movement
Constructivismrealism
Accepting things as they are
objectivism · neorealism · positivism · essentialism · foundationalism