Influenced and closely associated with the work of Wassily Kandinsky and Naum Gabo, as well as Cubism, Futurism and Suprematism (the latter being the Russian avant-garde movement launched by Kasimir Malevich, famous for his iconic Black Square of 1915 ), constructivists sought to break art. down to its most fundamental parts. In this essay I focus on five artists Aleksandr Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova, Lyubov Popova, Vladimir Tatlin and Naum Gabo. For constructivists, the function of art is essential. They despised. Vladimir Tatlin proposed a monument that would inspire artists for years and remain "to this day one of the best-known works of the Soviet avant-garde." The monument, titled Monument to the Third International, would be a cumulation of everything Tatlin had worked for as an artist and was, Russian sculptor and designer Naum Gabo 1890-1977 was a pioneer of the constructivist artistic movement in Russia after the Revolution. . In his work he demonstrated the potential of plastics and threaded constructions. Naum Gabo changed his name from Naum Neemia Pevsner to distinguish himself from his artist brother Antoine, Vladimir Tatlin proposed a monument that would inspire artists for years and which would remain "to this day one of the best-known works of the Soviet era. avant-garde.". The monument, entitled Monument to the Third International, would be an accumulation of everything Tatlin had worked on as an artist and was,