Art Deco + Colonialism. Adrian Allinson, 1931. Jules Isnard Dransy, Visit the International Colonial Exhibition, 1931

Art Deco + Colonialism

Adrian Allinson, 1931.

Jules Isnard Dransy, Visit the International Colonial Exhibition, 1931.

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De Stijl

De Stijl - “The Style”•Common aim and utopian vision. Universal harmony. Response to the trauma of World War I.

•Influenced by Cubism and geometric abstraction.

• Rejection of the decorative arts of Art Nouveau and over-emotional Expressionism.

•Favored a simple, logical style that emphasized construction and function.

•Appropriate for every aspect of modern life.

Key Players - Founded in 1917 by a group of artists and architects1. Theo Van Doesburg2. Piet Mondrian3. Bart van der Leck4. Gerrit Rietveld



Piet Mondrian, Tablueau 2, 1922.



Theo Van Doesburg and Vilmos Huszar, De Stijl, 1919



Theo Van Doesburg





Theo Van Doesburg, NB De Stijl, 1921.



Bart Van Der Leck, Rotterdam-London, 1915.



Theo Van Doesburg and Kurt Schwitters, Kleine Dada Soiree, Small Dada Evening!),1922.

De Stijl and Dada

Russian and the Revolution



Suprematism - Fine art medium. Direct emotional appeal to viewer.

Kasimir Malevich, Suprematist composition; Airplaine Flying, 1914-1915



Dmitri Moor, Have you enrolled as a volunteer?, 1920.



Dmitri Moor, Have you enrolled as a volunteer?, 1920.



Alfred Leete, Your Country Needs You!, 1914.

Suprematism - Fine art medium. Direct emotional appeal to viewer.



El Lissitzky, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (1920)

El Lissitzky, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (1920)



The Constructivists declared themselves for the revolution.



Alexander Rodchenko, Dobrolet, 1923.

Constructivism - Coined in 1921, rejection of self-expression combined with a commitment to industrial materials that made it a natural fit with the ideological goals of new communist regime.



Rodchenko and Stepanova

Alexander Rodchenko, Kakao, 1923.

“Comrades, don’t argue! Soviet citizens will become stronger in sport.

In our might is our right. And where is strength? In this cocoa.”

Gustav Klustis, Under the Banner for Lenin for Socialist Construction, USSR, 1931.

Photomontage - composite image made up of a variety of photographic source materials.





Alexander Rodchenko, Kino Glanz (Film Eye), 1924.







Franz Ferdinand's cover was inspired by Rodchenko's Poster (1924) and his photograph of "Lilya Brik" (1924).

Stenberg Brothers, The Man with the Movie Camera, 1929.



Stenberg Brothers



Stenberg Brothers



Documents

Art Deco + Colonialism. Adrian Allinson, 1931. Jules Isnard Dransy, Visit the International Colonial Exhibition, 1931