CONSTRUCTIVISM

In the decade after World War I, this term was, like Futurism, adopted by two groups, one in Russia, the other in Western Europe, whose aims were sufficiently different to distinguish between them. Coming in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution, most Soviet Constructivists were Abstract artists participating in social change with applied projects that nonetheless reflected their esthetic heritage. Thus, the historical exhibition Art into Life (1990) included large-scale graphics, environments, photomontage,...