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The class and I are looking at links in college and are to choose two links from 20th century art movements to modern artist that take inspiration form a certain movement.


One of the links I have chosen to look at is cubisms in fashion and architecture.
When Cubism in art was growing in popularity, its influence on fashion rapidly progressed in the 1920’s with the introduction of geometric prints and muted colours, reflecting the images of cubist paintings. Forty years on in the 1960’s, designers such as Mary Quant who is best known for her hot pants and mini-skirts was heavily influenced by the cuts and shapes of Cubist paintings, and especially favoured the work of Picasso when engineering her designs. Designers such as Gareth Pugh are also known for their experimentation with Cubism in fashion, with his 2008 Autumn/Winter collection full of geometric and abstract shapes.

As for cubism in architecture.

A direct link between Cubist Art and Cubist Architecture does not exist. However both share the same characteristic of dealing with geometrical shapes and forms. Often Cubist Artists painted abstract objects, as dissected geometrical shapes. Often buildings, based on Cubist principles, are designed as geometrical interlocking shapes or quite simply as a single geometrical shape. 

Each of the buildings has a basic design, often a cuboid shape. 
Modern materials have been used, often materials not normally used in the construction of buildings.
The buildings have sharp, clean lines, ensuring that the building is viewed in perspective with ease.
The windows have a cube or rectangular form and do not necessarily line up with each other, as in traditional or conventional buildings.






The second link I'm looking at the Constructivism art movement in fashion.

Born as an artistic movement around 1919, Russian Constructivism proposed the ideology of “production art”, that is, art with a social meaning and practical purpose.

Russian constructivists saw the human body as a mobile vessel, which required practical, simple, hygienic clothing to increase, rather than obstruct, the work and life efficiency of the wearer. Going away from the symmetry, luxury and convenience of the pre-revolution attire, constructivists favoured simple geometric shapes and complementing, albeit bright, colours in their avant-garde designs.

Working with materials in an abstract fashion, they aspired to create clothes that equally reflected their artistic vision and practical aims of the time.

Space-age paper dresses, designed by Pierre Cardin in 1960s, were inspired by some in the early 1920s Constructivism work and were seen as revolutionary clothing for a utopian society of the future.



Information taken from :The Russian Fashion Blog Constructivism in Russia in the 1920s