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were cultivating new montage techniques, to optically indicate motion, energy and rhythm, with "unconventional viewing angles, radical foreshortening, and unsettling close-ups." El Lissitzky, for his part, developed a theory of type that could visually mimic sound and gesture so to best organize "the
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The Constructivist movement reconceptualized the aesthetics of art by stripping it to its fundamentals, and rejecting insular precedents. In practice, this meant an emphasis on the fundamentals of geometry (circles, squares, rectangles), a limited palette: black, occasionally yellow — and red
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and urban space and Suprematism sought to create "anti-materialist, abstract art that originated from pure feeling," Productivism's goal was to create accessible art in service to the proletariat, with artists functioning more like "engineers ... than easel painters."
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Meanwhile, the avant-gardes propagating accessibility "began designing objects and furniture to transform ways of life." They also created "production books" that introduced children to the world of work, and taught them how things were made. Like the
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that summarized the principles of productivist art. Only a few years later, Productivism and the movement that spawned it were suppressed by the Soviets. By then, however, its influence had already spread, influencing the
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people’s consciousness." As a group, these innovations made the Productivists persuasive, attention-getting and influential, which is why what began as political messaging was later classified as
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is an early twentieth-century art movement that is characterized by its spare geometry, limited color palette, and
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in Holland and the post-war Zero collectives that sprang up across Europe in the 1950s and 60s."
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in Central Europe, they also designed textiles, clothing, ceramics and typography.
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s chess-seat set designed for two, colored to match the competitors, 1925.
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poster, calling for Russian books in all branches of knowledge, 1924.
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s stage plan for Meyerhold's "The Magnanimous Cuckold," 1922.
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influences. Aesthetically, it also looks similar to work by
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Productivist art

Aleksei Gan
Alexander Rodchenko
Varvara Stepanova
Arts and Crafts movement
Cubism
Futurism
Constructivism
Bauhaus
De Stijl
Cubist
Futurist
Kazimir Malevich
Suprematists
Constructivism
industrial society
Aleksei Gan
Alexander Rodchenko
Varvara Stepanova
Kazimir Malevich
El Lissitzky
Liubov Popova
Institute of Artistic Culture
montages
Georgi and Vladimir Stenberg
agitprop
Secessionists
Boris Arvatov
Bauhaus

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