about constructivism
"For the kind of art into which my work falls, there are many terms:
Geometric Art, Geometric-Abstract Art, Concrete Art, Constructive Art, Reductive Art. But let's not forget the term constructivism*. Art historians call it a twentieth century art movement. But I would say that it was not only a movement, but a beginning of the recognition of the way art and the development of technology are inseparable. New terminology may help distinguish between differing approaches to the construction of our works. But I am never ashamed of using the term to refer to contemporary works based on the universal principles laid down by the pioneers of the movement which art historians only identify with the beginning of the twentieth century. But movement is motion; as long a we are its motor, it will continue.
*from Wikipedia: “The term Construction Art was first used as a derisive term by Kazimir Malevich to describe the work of Alexander Rodchenko in 1917. Constructivism first appears as a positive term in Naum Gabo's Realistic Manifesto of 1920. Alexei Gan used the word as the title of his book Constructivism, which was printed in 1922.”
Lucien den Arend
