Art Movement
Constructivism was the last and most influential modern art movement to flourish in Russia in the 20th century. It evolved just as the Bolsheviks came to power in the October Revolution of 1917, and initially it acted as a lightning rod for the hopes and ideas of many of the most advanced Russian artists who supported the revolution's goals. It borrowed ideas from Cubism, Suprematism and Futurism, but at its heart was an entirely new approach to making objects, one which sought to abolish the traditional artistic concern with composition, and replace it with 'construction.' Constructivism called for a careful technical analysis of modern materials, and it was hoped that this investigation would eventually yield ideas that could be put to use in mass production, serving the ends of a modern, Communist society.
Artist
Vladimir Stenberg (April 4 [O.S. March 23] 1899 – May 1, 1982) and Georgii Stenberg ( October 7 [O.S. October 20] 1900 – October 15, 1933), Soviet artists and designers.
Artworks
What is extraordinary about the Stenbergs' posters, beyond their amazingly expressive and dynamic use of color, composition and typography, which has rarely been equalled, is that, though they look like photomontage they are actually almost entirely illustration. The ever-inventive Stenbergs had constructed a prototype overhead-projector which would allow them to project filmstrips onto their posters and to copy and embellish faces and bodies (as well as to distort them if necessary), hence their photorealist look. This gave their posters a consistency and quality that would have not been possible to achieve, due to the limitations of the printing processes available at the time, by cutting and pasting photographs onto paper.
A 1927 poster for the German film High Society Wager
or The Weather Station (Carl Froelich, 1923)
This playful and energetic poster is for The Last Flight (Ivan Pravov, 1929)
This enormous poster (104" x 80", the size of 8 one-sheets) for the international export
of Eisenstein's October (1927)
The poster above is for the German film Six Girls Seeking Shelter (Hans Behrendt, 1927).
one of two posters that the Stenbergs made in 1929 for Buster Keaton’s The General (1927)
Elements:
Line: Bold,heavy
Shape: Rectangle
Value: Loud, strong
Colors: red,grey,black
Texture: soft
Alignment and proportion: slanting
Hierarchy : clean and heavy
Balance: slanting, attention on the hand
Scale: focus, contrast typo
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