the constructs of Constructivism.........and Frankenstein???

Constructivism was an avant-garde tendency in 20th-century painting, sculpture, photography, design and architecture, with associated developments in literature, theatre and film. The term was first coined by artists in Russia in early 1921 and achieved wide international currency in the 1920s. Russian Constructivism refers specifically to a group of artists who sought to move beyond the autonomous art object, extending the formal language of abstract art into practical design work, which led artists to seek to create a new visual environment, embodying the social needs and values of the new Communist order.

International Constructivists were inspired by the Russian example, both artistically and politically. They continued, however, to work in the traditional artistic media of painting and sculpture, while also experimenting with film and photography and recognizing the potential of the new formal language for utilitarian design.

The term Constructivism has frequently been used since the 1920s, in a looser fashion, to evoke a continuing tradition of geometric abstract art that is 'constructed' from autonomous visual elements such as lines and planes, and characterized by such qualities as precision, impersonality, a clear formal order, simplicity and economy of organization.

here are some examples of cunstructivist art

and some humorous modern day adaptations

whats most impressive however is the application to movie posters (modern day of course)

artist and graphic designer Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 – April 25, 1996) was great at utilizing the constructivist from to make movie posters

his work, along with constructivism, has even inspired another artist to follow a similar path

Artist Tom Whalen creates posters in this form for old movies

artists to movement and bcak to artists, constructivism just cant stop it seems!