What was Constructivism?

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Constructivism

Tate - http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/century-city/century-city-moscow-1916-1930

The Art Story- http://www.theartstory.org/movement-constructivism.htm

Art Movements - http://www.artmovements.co.uk/constructivism.htm

BBC Video - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15561017

The Guardian - http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/nov/04/russian-avant-garde-constructivists

Vladimir Tatlin, Monument to the Third International

Video - Vladimir Tatlin. Model for Pamiatnik III Internatsionala (Monument to the Third International). Constructed by Tevel’ Shapiro, Sofia Dymshits-Tolstaia, Iosif Meerzon, and Pavel Vinogradov under Tatlin’s direction, 1920; reconstruction 1979 http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/audios/339/4315

Tate- http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/lost-art-vladimir-tatlin

The Art Story - http://www.theartstory.org/artist-tatlin-vladimir.htm  

BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15561017

Naum Gabo - Construction in a Niche 1930

Tate - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gabo-construction-in-a-niche-t02145

Tate - http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/naum-gabo-and-quandaries-replica

Tate - http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/naum-gabo-soviet-emigre-berlin

Tate - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/naum-gabo-1137

Tate - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gabo-construction-in-space-diagonal-t06973/text-summary

Antoine Pevsner, Maquette of a Monument Symbolising the Liberation of the Spirit, 1952

Tate - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/antoine-pevsner-1761

Tate - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/pevsner-maquette-of-a-monument-symbolising-the-liberation-of-the-spirit-n06162

Tate - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/pevsner-model-for-the-statue-of-aphrodite-in-the-ballet-la-chatte-t02242/text-catalogue-entry

Aleksandr Rodchenko, Composition No. 47, 1917

Tate - http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/aleksandr-rodchenkos-lines-force

The art story - http://www.theartstory.org/artist-rodchenko-alexander.htm

Constructivism
, c1907-early 1920s, Country: Russia 

A geometric abstract art movement. They produced work in

response to the Russian Revolution and wanted to create a new 

society by applying geometric design principles to all areas of life 

including architecture, furniture, clothes design etc.