The High Point of Modernism

The high point of modernism was around the 1930's. This was around the same time when Modernism movements such as the Bauhaus, Constructivism and Dada were at the peak of their.
Constructivism was produced after the Russian Revolution in 1917. It was an Architectural and Artistic movement, which emphasized art as a practice for social purposes. It was also reflected in most artistic fields, not limiting it's power.
There are many key features found in work from Modernism, including Black and White photography and art, the use of geometric shapes, 2 dimensional picture planes, the use of text in an image or piece of art, the re-use of found images and posters/ graphic design.
One artist who did work during this time was John Heartfield, who was a Dada supporter, meaning he made art that objects to war. One of his most famous pieces was 'Adolf the superman swallows gold and spouts shit'. This image showed a picture of Adolf Hitler with a swastika as his heart and coins as his bones. This was making an objection to how Hitler was funding with reference to another key feature of modernism - celebrating technology, with the use of the x-ray style image.

Another artist who worked during the Modernist period was Alexander Rodchenko. In 1921 he exhibited 3 monochrome paintings titles 'The end of painting'. This was typical of Modernism, because he's celebrating technology and making us appreciate technology in the modern world.