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‘Constructivism & Dada. Between 1928 and 1914[ce] there emerged an antisculptural movement, called Constructivism, that attacked the false seriousness and hollow moral ideals of academic art. The movement began with the relief fabrications of Vladimer Tatlin in 1913[ce]. The Constructivists & their sympathizers preferred industrially manufactured materials, such as plastics, glass, iron, and steel, to marble and bronze. Their sculptures were not formed by carving, modelling & casting, but by twisting, cutting, welding, or literally constructing: thus the name Constructivism.

‘Unlike traditional figural representation, the Constructivists’ sculpture denied mass as a plastic element and volume as an expression of space; for these principles, they substituted geometry and mechanics. In the machine, where the Futurists saw violence, the Constructivists saw beauty. Like their sculptures, it was something invented; it could be elegant, light, or complex, and it demanded the ultimate in precision & calculation.

‘Seeking to express pure reality, with the veneer of accidental appearance stripped away, the Constructivists fabricated objects totally devoid of sentiment or literary association.… their aesthetic principles are reflected in much of the furniture, architecture & typography of the Bauhaus.’

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* – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 27:] 109

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