1. Notes
March 13, 2012
Key Terms
Avante Garde
Cubo-futurism
Kasimir Malevich
Supermatism
Vladimir Tatlin
El Lissitzky
PROUNS
Alexander Rodchenko
The Bauhaus
Walter Groupius
Utopian
Johannes Itten
Laszlo Moholy Nagy
Typo photography
Kandinsky – invents abstraction.
El Lissitzky – red square
· PROUN – experiments between painting and architecture
· Wrote a book called The Isms of Art
o Developed a mathematical system for the book, written in English, Russian and German. Columns what divide the page
o Sans serif type.
Alexandar Rodchenko
· Art student
· 1921 – shows canvas at at show “I reduced painting to a logical conclusion, I affirm its all over”
· Moves into constructivism
· Leads us to modern graphic illustration.
· Primitive – contemporary
· Creativity has to have a social need, a social dysfunction.
De Stijl
· 1917- 1931
· Based on a Utopian approach to aesthetics
· Functionalism
· Using primary colors and black and white.
· Squares and rectangles
· Sought to express mathematical system for universal harmony
· Theo Van Doesburg
o Embrace asymmetrical composition.
o Embraced Dadaism
o Before you can build something new, you have to tear everything down
· Piet Mondrian
o Broadway Boogie Woogie
Bauhaus
· School with a Utopian idea to change society.
· Looking for a unity to bring arts man and craftsman together
· 1919-1925 Weimar
o 1923 - First Public Exhibition
o 1924 - Letter of resignation
· 1925-1932 Dessau
o 1928 - Groupius replaced by Meyer
o 1930 - Meyer replaced by van der Rohe
· 1932-1933 Berlin
2. Personal Thoughts
Today was a very different class. The notes were, or at least seemed, a lot shorter than normal. The movies we watched were probably the oldest movies I've ever seen. It was interesting to view different countries old black and white videos. It was a big sad and depressing but that was the obvious mood of the movie, I liked it. I really love the de stijl movement. I love the modern designs with the simple lines and shapes and colors.
