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Constructivism(1917) Figure 1: V.Tatlin,  Corner Counter-Relief, 1914, Constructed materials. (The Art Story, 2015)       ·        Last and most influenced modern movement to flourish in Russia in the 20 th Century. ·        It evolved when the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917. ·        It borrowed ideas from Cubism, Suprematism and Futurism which abolished the traditional artists’ ways of using composition and replace it with construction. ·          Used modern materials (this would yield ideas that influenced the mass production ending modern, communist society). (The Art Story, 2015) ·        Avant-garde artists adapted a functionalist, ant historical approach which was hand drawn and organic ornamental forms get replaced by san serif faces, geometric designs and photographic imagery. (The Museum of Modern Art, 2017) Figure 2: El Lissitzky: Beat the whites with the red wedges, 1919 (www.wikiart.org, 2017) The red wedge symbolis

The style: 1917 Piet Mondrian and Theo Van Doesburg were the headers of De Stijl movement.  The Stijl( the style) is a Dutch movement that began in 1917 and lasted till 1931. The movement was discovered by a painter named Piet Mondrian, he developed the movement as his own art, later and artists named Theo Van Doesburg developed the movement further.   The Stijl movement was all about primary colours, quadrilateral shapes of squares and rectangles and horizontal and vertical lines.   (Steyn, 2017) The Stijl movement was known to create: Spiritual harmony and order Artists wanted to express the harmony that they believed was the law of the universe to truth and purity. (Steyn, 2017) The Stijl embraced the simple terms of abstraction, it broke down the confusing parts of art into simple visual elements of squares, rectangles and lines. In simple terms the movement broke down an image to its core, to fundamentals of lines and geometric shape, this was done to achieve a plac