Compare the form and content of Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, and Russian Constructivism
Umberto Boccioni, States of Mind I: The Farewells, 1911 (Futurism) compare: Picasso, Ma Jolie, 1911 (Analytic Cubism)
Luigi Russolo (left), Dynamism of an Automobile, , oil on canvas, 106 x 140 cm., Pompidou Center, Paris Umberto Boccioni (right), Dynamism of a Soccer Player, 1913, 6' 4" x 6' 7“, MoMA, NYC “Our bodies penetrate the sofas on which we sit; and the sofas penetrate our bodies.” Boccioni, Futurist Painting Manifesto
(left) Vladimir Tatlin (Russian, ) Model for Monument to the Third International, , wood, iron, and glass; model is 20’ high. Constructivism (right) Picasso, Maquette for Guitar, 1912, cardboard, string, and wire, 25 x 13 x 7.” Cubism
Russian Constructivist theater Lyubov Popova, stage design for Meyerhold’s production of Fernand Crommelynck's (1921) play, The Magnanimous Cuckold, 1922
Constructivist rationalist “factura” versus Expressionist line: “The inaccurate, trembling line traced by the hand cannot compare with the straight and precise line drawn with the set square, reproducing the design exactly. Handcrafted work will have to try to be more industrial. Drawing as it was conceived in the past loses its value and is transformed into diagram or geometrical projection." - Rodchenko (left) Wassily Kandinsky, Watercolor (Number 13), Expressionism (expressive line) (right) El (Eleazar) Lissitzky (Russian, ), Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, Constructivism (analytic line = “rationalism” of the machine)