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Unit 4 DQ2_20th Century Art

Unit 4 DQ2_20th Century Art

Q • How did the Constructivists redefine the role of the artist in society? • What teaching innovations introduced at the Bauhaus school are still present today? • Were the ideas pursued by Constructivists and at the Bauhaus purely utopian?

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For Constructivists, the role of the artist in society is to build new things. The word construct in constructivism clearly means building a new object and by building a new object, the constructivists mean a new society. As mentioned in the textbook, the role of the artist was to “build the new-post revolutionary society.” The man who introduced constructivism was Vladimir Tatlin and he wanted to build a completely new society. He believed in integrating social life into art and wanted that artists take this art to the streets and the countryside for the people to see.