World War I and the Visual Arts
World War I and the Visual Arts
Events such as World War I (1914-1918) were the cause for some artists from various groups, painters, writers, and sculptors to gather in places to write to escape from the crisis of violence of war. Many artists were influenced to translate their works as paintings, sculptures, portraits, photographs, novels, movies, etc. Among others; Constructivism which was the inspiration for the ideas of well advanced Russian artists, the making of a new world in Art and Architecture including artists that were affected and involved by modern warfare, as well as how Film and Finance was affected.
Borrowing ideas from Cubism, Suprematism, and Futurism came Constructivism which was entirely a new approach to making objects that required to eradicate the traditional artistic concern with composition and replacing it with construction. It was the last modern movement of art to prosper in Russia in 1914.
Constructivism was a movement where the three-dimensional predominated. It highlighted sculpture, architecture, and industrial design. In fact it is where the development of products with modern materials and clean lines. In 1920, artists such as Alexander Rodchenko, Naum Gabo, El Lissitzky, and Antoine Pevsner, were integrated. At the outburst of war, Gabo travels to Christiania, Norway, and leaves academic and begins producing Constructivist art. While living in Norway, Gabo left academic figurative art behind and develops what he calls his “stereometric” method of sculpture. This technique, which consists of interlocking sheet materials pieced together with tape or glue, becomes central to Gabo’s work. Like many industrial materials, in the 1920’s celluloid was not limited to the area of engineering and science but in many aspects of daily life. La Chatte plastic décor offered audiences a modern setting for a classical love story. The ballet’s young protagonist puzzlingly falls in love with a female cat and begs Aphrodite to transform
Events such as World War I (1914-1918) were the cause for some artists from various groups, painters, writers, and sculptors to gather in places to write to escape from the crisis of violence of war. Many artists were influenced to translate their works as paintings, sculptures, portraits, photographs, novels, movies, etc. Among others; Constructivism which was the inspiration for the ideas of well advanced Russian artists, the making of a new world in Art and Architecture including artists that were affected and involved by modern warfare, as well as how Film and Finance was affected.
Borrowing ideas from Cubism, Suprematism, and Futurism came Constructivism which was entirely a new approach to making objects that required to eradicate the traditional artistic concern with composition and replacing it with construction. It was the last modern movement of art to prosper in Russia in 1914.
Constructivism was a movement where the three-dimensional predominated. It highlighted sculpture, architecture, and industrial design. In fact it is where the development of products with modern materials and clean lines. In 1920, artists such as Alexander Rodchenko, Naum Gabo, El Lissitzky, and Antoine Pevsner, were integrated. At the outburst of war, Gabo travels to Christiania, Norway, and leaves academic and begins producing Constructivist art. While living in Norway, Gabo left academic figurative art behind and develops what he calls his “stereometric” method of sculpture. This technique, which consists of interlocking sheet materials pieced together with tape or glue, becomes central to Gabo’s work. Like many industrial materials, in the 1920’s celluloid was not limited to the area of engineering and science but in many aspects of daily life. La Chatte plastic décor offered audiences a modern setting for a classical love story. The ballet’s young protagonist puzzlingly falls in love with a female cat and begs Aphrodite to transform
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