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• Kazimir Malevich
• Russian painter,and art theorist
style // Suprematism
Black Square (Malevich, 1913), State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• Kazimir Malevich
• Art is the “expression of feeling, seeking no practical values, no ideas, no promised land.”
style // Suprematism
Black Square (Malevich, 1913), State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• Malevich and Kandinsky
• art is a spiritual activity apart from utilitarian needs
on the other hand...
• Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko
• rejected art for art’s sake
• sought practical application
the debate of the 20s
Tatlin’s Tower
Kandinsky -- Composition VIII
• Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge
• by El Lissitzky, 1919
• Whites - Kerensky’s forces
• Red Wedge -the Bolsheviks
style // Constructivism
• Philosophy:
• Rejected ‘art for arts sake’
• Design can help to achieve political purposes
style // Constructivism
El Lissitzky,exhibition poster
• Characteristics:
• grid alignment
• sans serif type
• bars and rules
• reverse type
style // Constructivism
• Russian
• a major player in Constructivism
• philosophy: Design can be an agent of change
people // El Lissitzky
• Russian
• a major player in Constructivism
• philosophy: Design can be an agent of change
• influenced the Bauhaus, and De Stijl movements
• believed photo-mechanical tech. would replace type-setting
people // El Lissitzky
• 1917–1931
• De Stijl (the style)
• Netherlands
• aka Holland
• Dutch refers to the people and the language
style // De Stijl
Piet Mondrian
• Famous Dutch designers:
• Piet Mondrian,painter
• Gerrit Rietveld,furniture designer
style // De Stijl
• Theo van Doesburg
• writer, painter, critic
• published De Stijl,a magazine that promoted De Stijl principles
people // De Stijl
• Characteristics:
• Planes of primary color
• squared terminals on type
• abstracted forms
style // De Stijl