It first started after the WW1 in Russia 1917 - 1922 and was used as a political tool, it was about putting art to the service on constructing a new society. Constructivism was influenced by cubism and Italian futurism. the charateristics of constructivism were geometry, abstract, clean lines and flat colours. constructivism was in textiles, graphic design, film, theatre and they also developed the photo montage.
Aleksander Rodchenko was one of the first to experiment with photo montage and he also designed furniture, posters, books & typographic, believing these forms of art to be more effective is communicating the messages of the soviet union. He became one of the most important leaders of constructivism (whose followers favoured strict geometric forms and crisp graphic design) in Russia. During the movement he formed the first working group of Constructivists.
Rodchenko also did a photo montage illustrations for Mayakovsky’s poem “Pro eto" and also all of Mayakovsky's book covers. His graphic designs were very flat with only limited colour palette of only black, red, white and greys also letters of the alphabet taken from photographs.
Varvara Stepanova was Aleksander's wife, she was also a painter, designer and photographer. She spent her career dedicated to trying to use her work to create revolutionary change within society. She designed books, textile designs for costumes. Stepanova was also a leading figure of the contructivist movement and also designed textiles from 1923 to 1924 for the First state textile factory. She designed 150 bold geometric textiles of which 25 or so were put into production. Stepanova concentrated on graphics and worked with her husband Aleksander on posters, books, magazines and typography.
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