Founded in 1913 by Vladimir Tatlin, the Russian Constructivist movement developed from Cubism, Futurism of Italy, Suprematism of Russia, Neoplasticism of Holland and the Bauhaus school of Germany. The term Constructivism was used to define non-representational relief construction, sculptures and paintings and was originally derived from the concept of literally ¨constructing¨ art.
Constructivists sought to depict the dominance of ¨the machine¨ in the modern world and its triumph over nature. They therefore often employed industrial materials, such as aluminum, electronics, chrome, steel, glass, celluloid, nylon, plexiglass, tin, cardboard and wire.
Their work was rationally and precisely composed of basic shapes of squares, rectangles, circles and triangles with the use of mathematics and measuring tools. <p>Constructivism was also one the first movements to adopt strictly non-objective subject matter. Wassily Kandinsky´s non-representational, abstract work was central to Constructivism and helped the movement gain international popularity.