Russian Constructivism!

3. -Famous Person

4. Washington
Monument

started in 1854
finished in 1885
designed by architect
Robert Mills
Washington DC, USA

5. 
Eiffel Tower
built in 1889
designed by Gustave Eiffel
Paris, France

6. Cristo
Redentor
(Christ the 
Redeemer)
made
between
1926-1931
Designed by
Heitor da
Silva Costa
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

7. Anyone know
the name of

this
monument?
Supposedly the
tallest structure
in DR?
Santo Domingo, Repulica Dominicana

8. La Basilica de
La Altagracia 
built in 1972
free to visit!
Mass daily at 6:30,
8:30, 10:00, and
12:00
Higüey, Repulica Dominicana

9. La Basilica de
La Altagracia 
(interior)
But is it a
monument if it
has a function?
Higüey, Repulica Dominicana

10. Monument
to the Third

International
1918
designed by Vladimir
Tatlin

11. Monument to the Third
International
1918

designed by Vladimir Tatlin

12. Figure it out!

13. Other Art Movements on deck…
Surrealism
Suprematism
Cubism

Futurism
Dada
Abstraction (resisting the “ism”….)
Still to be discussed….
Expressionism
Synthetic Cubism
Constructivism (LET’S DO THIS!)

14. The Goal: Art is meant to serve a social purpose. It is meant to
construct the way that people see the world.
The Process: Simple with BOLD colors and lines. Also lots of
RED.
The Look: Not always abstract. Sometimes there are references to
people, particularly “average-Joe-workers”

15. 
What happens when talented artists get ahold of these ideas???

16. V. I. Tatlin
Totes propaganda

18. -Vladimir Lenin

21. Vladimir Tatlin -- Sailor
(1911)


23. What if it had been built?
Takehiko Nagakura dreamed it up with this
short video…

24. So what about you?

If you could create a movement, what would it be called?
The Goals
The Process
The Look
Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, 1919

25. Other Art Movements on deck…
Surrealism
Suprematism
Cubism

Futurism
Dada
Abstraction (resisting the “ism”….)
Still to be discussed….
Expressionism
Synthetic Cubism
Constructivism (LET’S DO THIS!)