Art Movement
The art movement that I choose for this project is Constructivism.
I choose it because, it features lots of straight lines, with only a few colors, but it feels really powerful.
I choose it because, it features lots of straight lines, with only a few colors, but it feels really powerful.
What is Constructivism?
Constructivism was the last and most influential modern art movement to flourish in Russia in the 20th century. It evolved just as the Bolsheviks came to power in the October Revolution of 1917, and initially it acted as a lightning rod for the hopes and ideas of many of the most advanced Russian artists who supported the revolution's goals.
It borrowed ideas from Cubism, Suprematism and Futurism, but at its heart was an entirely new approach to making objects, one which sought to abolish the traditional artistic concern with composition, and replace it with 'construction.' Constructivism called for a careful technical analysis of modern materials, and it was hoped that this investigation would eventually yield ideas that could be put to use in mass production, serving the ends of a modern, Communist society.
Here is a example of motion graphic with the Constructivism art movement:
https://vimeo.com/37484683 'Hot house' by Robert Grleves.
Artist and Artworks:
1. Georgii and Vladimir Stenberg - poster designer and sculptors (1900-1933, 1899-1982)
What is extraordinary about the Stenbergs' posters, beyond their amazingly expressive and dynamic use of color, composition and typography, which has rarely been equalled, is that, though they look like photomontage they are actually almost entirely illustration. The ever-inventive Stenbergs had constructed a prototype overhead-projector which would allow them to project filmstrips onto their posters and to copy and embellish faces and bodies (as well as to distort them if necessary), hence their photorealist look. This gave their posters a consistency and quality that would have not been possible to achieve, due to the limitations of the printing processes available at the time, by cutting and pasting photographs onto paper.
Poster for the movie 'Man with the movie camera' (1929)
The film is famous for the range of cinematic techniques such as double exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme close-ups, tracking shots, and many more.
In my opinion, this poster is perfect for the movie because it is surreal design that explodes with color and movement, and revels in dynamic composition and expressive typography; Its like the poster is trying to tell us that the film is thrilling, exciting, and features alot of new things that people never seen.
Design Elements:
Line: mostly vertical lines, slanting vertical lines to create different point of view.
Shape: Organic and non-organic shapes.
Value: The value is low because it dont have much lightness in the poster.
Color: Split complementary.
Texture: rough texture
Eye Movement: Bottom to above point of view, because of the position of the girl and the buildings.
Principles Analysis:
Unity: Yes.
The girl and the buildings look unity because the value and color of theirs are match with each other.
Balance. No.
Because the slanted buildings and the position of the girl.
Rhythm: Rotation.
The typography and the circle creates the illusion that the girl is falling down while spinning.
Some other artworks of them:
Mospolygraph Pencil (1928). Courtesy Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York.
Symphony of a Large City (1928). Courtesy Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York.
A Shrewd Move (1927). Courtesy Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York.
In the Spring (1929).
