![]() His autonomous, abstracted art is built up in smooth, rectangular surfaces and stripes, which can overlap in different ways. Once moved and settled in Paris, Malewitch develops an extremely stylized formal language. "Actually, Constructivism is the purest form of Cubism" Actually, Constructivism is the purest form of Cubism. The latter, in particular, maintains that art should be useful and should therefore make use of industrial materials and modern techniques. Constructivists like Malevich and Tatlin – the two great pioneers of modern art in Russia – want to construct, to achieve a new composed reality. ![]() Constructivism (1915-30) thus originates from Cubism and has many of the same characteristics. In the Netherlands, but even more so in Germany and Eastern Europe, a group of artists goes even deeper in search of even more purity, for measurable objective purity. Shape variation and the sum of overlapping views from multiple angles predominate. ![]() Color has a subordinate role, which is why artists use many 'boring' shades such as ochre, brown and grey. In geometric art, subjects are analyzed and simplified into these basic shapes. The depicted content is increasingly translated into basic geometric elements: the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. In the French capital, artists, following Picasso and Braque, long for a new design for artistic challenges. One of the most influential twentieth-century art movements, which ushered in a new way of seeing, is Cubism (1907-14). ‘Looking for even more purity, for measurable objective purity’ Partly as a reaction to the abundance of subjectivity and emotionality of other artists, this group wants to make art concrete and reduce it to a number of basic elements to the essence. This first generation of geometric abstracts seeks reference points in proportions and measures between shapes and colours. For example, around the First World War, geometric shapes are central to Cubism (Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque), Constructivism (Vladimir Tatlin and Kasimir Malewitch) and De Stijl (Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg). Although geometric abstract art in itself is not an art movement, it does play a role (more than once) in art history.
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