Looked at Suprematism this week. This art movement was started in 1915 in Russia by Kazimir Malevich. It focused primarily on basic geometric forms such as squares, circles and lines painted in a range of colours. He developed in conjunction with his student El Lissitzky. Malevich was influenced by Cubism and Futurism.
Constructivism was started in 1913 in Russia by Vladimir Tatlin. It was a rejection of autonomous art and revolved around the idea of art being a ‘practice for social purposes’. Extract from http://www.google.co.uk/search?safe=active&ei=BI7AW7ODJI3ygQa33oLAAQ&q=constructivism+art&oq=co&gs_l=psy-ab.3.1.0i67k1l7j0i131k1l3.182884.183074.0.185242.2.2.0.0.0.0.162.286.0j2.2.0….0…1.1.64.psy-ab..0.2.286…0.0.rKnq2Bbs5ik
Wassily Kandinsky a colour theorist and is one of the first to have made a purely abstract art piece.
Piet Mondrian a Dutch painter and theoretician who was influenced by Cubism and Futurism.
Zaha Hadid influenced by Malevich. She said abstraction was moving away from certain social dogmas.
Composition with yellow, blue and red by Piet Mondrian 1937-1942.
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