arts: Defining Constructivism: Rodchenko and Popova at the Tate

Modern art is often hard and inaccessible, and "defining constructivism" has plenty of minimalist modern art, focusing of shape colour and form only... breaking away from traditional aesthetics?

The beautiful setting and expert guiding of Tate Modern make even these abstract ideas exciting and enchanting.

Also this exhibition gave a much more positive perspective on the Russian revolution, sure it all ended disastrously with Stalin, one of the wickedest world leaders of modern times. However before this, yes times were hard but there was a sense of collective ownership, joint responsibility and working for a great cause.

Soviet Russia under Lenin was also the first country to decriminalize homosexuality in 1922. The Russian Communist Party effectively legalized no-fault divorce, abortion and homosexuality, when they abolished all the old Tsarist laws. The initial Soviet criminal code kept these liberal sexual policies in place. But a decade later Stalin reversed this, and homosexuality remained illegal under Article 121 until the Yeltsin era.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin

The curator from the Design Museum waxed lyrical about the work of these communist artists who shaped much of 20th century design over several decades.