This document summarizes the Constructivism art movement from 1919-1934 in Russia. It discusses key Russian Constructivist artists like El Lissitzky, Vladimir Tatlin, and Lyubov Popova who believed art should serve practical purposes and promoted the use of industrial materials. They incorporated photography, photomontage, and graphic design into their works. Lissitzky in particular sought to combine Suprematist painting with architecture by creating three-dimensional environments using two-dimensional shapes. Constructivism had a significant influence on design and architecture in both Russia and Germany in the early 20th century.

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1919-1934

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CONSTRUCTION

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

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

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

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9. 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

10. Books (The Advertisement Poster for the Lengiz
Publishing 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)

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 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)

12. 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

13. 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

14. Vladimir Tatlin,
Corner Counter-Relief (1914)
Sculpture with spatial qualities made of Iron,
copper, wood and strings
El Lissitzsky
Proun Room (1923)
Geometric Proun compositions into a room
environment

15. 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?

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 Vasilily Yermilov
 Victor Pasmore
 Lyubov Popova
 Alexander Vesnin
 Vladimir Mayakovsky

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