Teactonics
Facture
Constructivism
Creating material form by assembling its elements and parts efficiently to create a
viable structure; and giving intellectual form to the overall concept (think “form-
giving”)
El Lissitzky’s principles for objects in the home
They represent themselves and nothing else. They are honest.
The eye not wander over them and become distracted by complex forms.
They are clear.
They are simple and energetic. They are elementary.
One can design the whole object as well as detail using a ruler and a compass.
They are produced by man using the help of machines.
They are industrial.
An objects sole justification is its social utility.
Philosophy
A new sty;e that reflected the new needs of the proletariat had to be created, as this
was a dominant new group of consumenrs
Proletariat=wage earners, those who do not have capital but sell their labor (e.g
students)
The style would be, born of clamourous life steeped in the odors of the street, it’s
maddering tempo)
Vladimir tatlin
His counter-reliefs were attempts to synthesize painting, sculpture
Vladimir tatlin
Production art
Monument to the third international (1920)
Celebration the third anniversary of the revolution
Become the symbol if artistic avant-garde
Also became symbol of revolutionary modernity
It was to be taller than the Eiffel tower yet another attempt to show up the french
The cube would turn completely in one year
In the highest level, the cylinder turned aound its axis once eash day
Axis was parallel to the axis of the earth
Height….=400
He designed the letatlin the peoples air-bicycle
Built of wood, rawhide, silk, whalebone, and cork
Aleksandr Rodchenko
Hi did photo, postes, furniture, clothing
Designed workers club
For the 1925 exhibition in Paris
