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Constructivism
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Also known as: Konstruktivizm
Tatlin, Vladimir: Monument to the Third International
- Russian:
- Konstruktivizm
- Key People:
- Joaquín Torres-García
- Naum Gabo
- Antoine Pevsner
- Related Topics:
- art
Constructivism, Russian artistic and architectural movement that was first influenced by Cubism and Futurism and is generally considered to have been initiated in 1913 with the “painting reliefs”—abstract geometric constructions—of Vladimir Tatlin. The expatriate Russian sculptors Antoine Pevsner and Naum Gabo joined Tatlin and his followers in Moscow, and upon publication of their jointly written Realist Manifesto in 1920 they became the spokesmen of the movement. It is from the manifesto that the name Constructivism was derived; one of the directives that it contained was “to construct” art. Because of their admiration for machines and technology, functionalism, and modern industrial ...(100 of 239 words)