Beginning of Set

We were given our briefs on monday starting our new project.
I am in group one doing a film set based on the story 'The Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka:
http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/stories/kafka-e.htm

Set requirement: The living room of the household and the bedroom of Gregor Samsa – for this set, the stylistic brief is constructivism and expressionism.


Constructivism:one of the main characteristics of Constructivism is a total commitment to and acceptance of modernity. The art is typically totally abstract, with the emphasis on geometric shapes and experimentation. Constructivist art is optimistic, but does not tend to be emotional in any way and subjectivity and individuality were subsumed in favour of objective, universal forms. A new order in art was being sought, with new media being experimented with. One of the characteristics of Constructivist artworks is that they would be reductive in nature, simplifying everything to the most fundamental level. The fact that the Constructivist art movement emerged immediately after World War One is no coincidence. The movement wanted to sweep away all that had gone before, all that had led to the catastrophic war. - http://www.keithgarrow.com/modern-art-styles/what-is-constructivism.html


Expressionism: is an artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse within a person. The artist accomplishes this aim through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements. In a broader sense Expressionism is one of the main currents of art in the later 19th and the 20th centuries, and its qualities of highly subjective, personal, spontaneous self-expression are typical of a wide range of modern artists and art movements. - http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/198740/Expressionism