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"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
concept which art historians only identify as a movement at 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
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