The movement to abstraction in the plastic arts, that has emerged from the 1920s, was supported by the art of suprematism and neo-plasticism and then - constructivism, approve color and plastic preferences of modernist architecture.

This article was prepared within the framework of a research project carried out under the grant RGNF: Project № 14-04-00202 «Architectural colourism as method of improving of the urban environment quality».

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