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Constructivism The movement all about your own understanding 1915-1940 An abstract art movement based in Russia and founded by: Vladimir Tatlin Alexander Rodchenko Further artists involved in this avante garde movement included the following Alexandra Exter, Wassily Kadinsky ,  Alexander Rodchenko,  Robert Adams  ,El Lissitzky Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.  What made an Constructivist Artwork ? Having slight resemblances to the futurist fundamentals and treatment of artwork as well as the viewpoint on life constructivists artists believed ion conveying the importance of organisation in the mechanical, physical or man-made materials they used as well as the artwork having to work together not in just parts but instead as a whole object or a complete unit. Vladimir, who believed that art should be constructed rather that just thought of, really made making art made the idea of rejecting (autonomous art) which was seen as when the artist does not care or represent his/her artwork ba

All you need to know about The Style (De Stijl)

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The Style (De St ij l) An abstraction movement that spanned from 1917 up to the late 1930's as a reaction to the over decoration and complicated structure resembled by the Art Deco movement, but allowing hints of inspired works from Dada , Suprematism and shape treatment from the Cubist 's movement De Stijl was there to revamp and get back to the basics of art and breaking it down to its simplest and fundamental forms.(designhistory.com) A Dutch based movement led by artists by the name of  Theo Van Doesburg Piet Mondrian Gerrit Reitveld This collaboration of writers, architects, painters and art critics aimed to deconstruct art and represent it with the most basic principles and values that were harmony and order.( designhistory.com) reports. Piet Mondrian, Composition A (1920), source: cloudfront.net Like many movements that came before "The Style" it published its own public declaration that was written by Van Doesburg as a cont