Modern-ism

Scientific Revolution gave way to the industrial revolution which invented mass production, making use of the lower class as unchecked labor. William Morris opposed this unchecked labor in a time when a move towards social philosophies began.

Modernism in design and art followed Arts & Crafts. At the same time, the Bauhaus in Germany had Russian Constructivism emerging. 

Bauhaus was a school which believed less is more, reductionism, minimalism. Reductionism is reducing things to their bare minimum. 

Bauhaus School Building - Walter Gropius (Germany 1926)

Mondrian has become emblematic of Modernism.

Composition - Mondrian

Russian constructivists absorb futurism and cubism to create a new movement which unifies communist ideology with visual form.

Constructivist Propaganda – Red, Yellow and Black. Diagonals. Sans-serif. Tilted axis.

 Poster - Political - El Lissitzky (Russia 1919)

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