reimagining design histories – Constructivism Research

Constructivism movement Research.

Constructivism movement was a movement in the design and area that was created in Russia in the time of 1915 but didn’t really take off till 1920 to the Vladimir tatlin exhibit on his work of ” Monument of the Third International” where work from the constructivism movement was shown and seen by people. within in the time of constructivism movement there was a civil war going on between Russia and the red and white army this had a lot of impact on certain designs, the movement ran effective to 1940’s , however people in 2018 still use the design movement layouts and basic elements as inspiration then use it on their own work as a mix.

what is the constructivism movement ?

The constructivism movement was a huge move in the art and design area that forbidden the traditional idea of arts that designed for the middle class in the days before this movement started .This movement was to express artist freedom of breaking rules however it was also direct art towards the social issues and political messages that was taking place in this century for example the government were trying to help people to build a community up again and not go to and join the war and help the changes in the social world then it was used more further in the century by posters to do advertising events or products this movement even widen to making product covers such as book covers, logos

Constructivism movement had a couple of different movement work used into this movement one that can be found cubism and futurism even realism as theses movement took place beside this movement and they work into the this movement as inspiration and to show the movement more.

Typical conventions that are include in a lot the posters and design work in this movement include the same elements such as;

powerful images or a images – way to catcher someone else on poster was to include an image in most of the poster theres a image or an illustration include on the layout somewhere, a lot of the images have a happy lighter mood on the posters.

typography – typography plays a big part of the constructivism movement, text is used to give information on the posters and work and due to the movement mostly about giving changes information to everyone text is used to give it across. Bold text is used as it easiest to see by everyone the typeface are a mixture of serif and san serif all text is blocky

Russian words– Most of the posters and work that made within the time of the movement all include the Russian language meaning the Russian alphabet was used to some people that don’t known Russian can say it looks like shapes or letters back to front.

angled items – everything on the page is on an angle, this could be for any reason such as showing the movement or making it a bit more creative.

strong geometric’s – the Russian ideas were a lot of laying shapes and make the designs as creative as they wanted this was a way to should futurism in their designs.

simple colour theme – primary colours are only found on the posters theses were red,white, black ,yellow and somethings blue and the basic colours of white and black are seen in very design that was made in this century as they were easy to be seen on the layout page people also say that the red and black were representing the deaths with in the wars it can also been see as the different army’s that were included in the cvill war.

This movement was created by a handful of of constrivist arts some of the graphics designers that were in the movement were;

Vladimir tatlin-

vladimir was known as the founder of the Constructivism movement in 1919 when it first started to be found by people this because of Vladimir created an art piece called ” Monument of the Third International” and put it in his own exhibition. vladimir was born in 1855 in Moscow and died in 1953, Vladimir went to a school in Moscow to study art and sculptor.Within his work he used a lot of woods metals as he believe that he should bends traditional ideas of art.After working the movement for a while he decided to go to be a teacher.

El lissitzky-

El Lissitzky was a typographer and designer within the years of .El Lissitzky was born in November 1890 in a places called Pochinok that’s in Russia he died in the year 1941 at the age of 51, from a young age Lissitzky was very creative as he was spotted and taught by the artist called Yehuda Pen who taught many of celebrities designers. Lissitzky was turned down by his art college in 1909 so he moved to Germany to go to the university called Technische Houchschule to study engineering while at university learnt to free draw and using illustrations.

After El Lissitzky graduated from university he worked on art and teaching graphics and engreeing while being a teacher in a college he became friends with an artists called Kazimir Malevih who was creating the movement ‘suprematism’ he used this movement with his work he mixed both art movement tougher while El Lissitzky was alive he created the most famous typography art piece was “Beat the white with the red” everything of his was all shapes and simple colours such as red, black,white and blue.

Alexander Rodchenko-

Alenander was a vital artist in the constructivism art and design movement as he was one of the founders of this movement , Alexander was born in 1891 in Petersburg in Russia and died in 1956 at the age of 68.While Alexander was alive he was a photography, painter,designer and a sculptor he had a huge interest in the creative design Industry before making his way into the industry and the constictivism movement he studied in Kazan School of art within the year 1910-1914 then went onto Citral Stronganov School of Industrial Art where he ended up living other artist that came into be a handy contacts.

Rodchenko started to work extremely hard with his designs work from the year of 1918 his style of work was very geometric shapes meaning he suited the constructivism movement well as his style was one of the main elements in the movement, based at the start of Alexander design and art journey he was more of a painter then in 1919 decide to use more 3D martials in his work such as wood and metals to show his styles more. In 1920’s Alexander took more to more design ares like photography and the mainly the graphic side of the movement by creating posters, book covers and making typography designs. his most famous arts piece were his photography but his advertising posters where known very well, if you put constructivism posters in most of the posters will be his.

The stenbregs borthers

Two brothers that were well known in the constructivism movement was the Stenbregs brothers that were called Valadimir who was born in 1899 and died in 1982, the other brother that was called Georgii who was born in 1900 a year after his brother however Georgii died in 1933 in an accident. The brothers were designers that were born in Moscow and went to school engreeing but they went onto another school for applied art.

The brothers started to work in 1920’s in the constructivism movemvent they started off making sets and costumes for Alexanders Tairov’s Moscow chambers theatre the two brothers went on to maybe different art area’a but mainly stayed into designing for theatre but they were interesting in the design of posters for movies and threatens they went to making their own for films and this became their biggest breaker through for them as they were known for this, they went onto make thousands of movie posters even after Georgii died Valadimir kept this interesting work area .

References to all the resources I used in this project

book – Bojko – new design in Revolution Russia.

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/five-things-graphic-designers-owe-to-russia

https://www.theartstory.org/movement-constructivism.htm

https://www.theartstory.org/artist-tatlin-vladimir.htm

https://www.britannica.com/biography/El-Lissitzky

http://www.designishistory.com/1920/el-lissitzky/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aleksandr-Mikhailovich-Rodchenko

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0734447/bio

https://monoskop.org/Stenberg_brothers

https://creativepro.com/russian-constructivism-and-graphic-design/

http://www.designishistory.com/1920/constructivism/