Wednesday, February 24, 2010

feb. 24 lecture

Here are somethings we went over in todays lecture:

De Stijil

visual forms in space, the structure of the page,

bauhaus

everyday objects would be elevated to the level of art through careful application of the principals.

New typography based on horizontal strategy, curves are eliminated

DADA free the world of it traditions

movie on the bauhaus, 150 students were women... no formal student teachers, expressionism

shape contrasts rhythm

less is more

function rules supreme

1925 first tubular chair

Bauhutte”apprentice system for Gothic Cathedrals.

1919, 1925,weimar and dessau 1933 bauhaus locations


Moholy Nagy-master

Type and image experiments helped

plot course of Modernist design. New visual literature

photomontage called photoplastics

red is the closest dominant color to black


Today we went over the Bauhaus school ,De Stijil,and DADA. I enjoyed watching the video of the Bauhaus and learning about the designers and the history about it. What I also enjoyed looking at was Maholy Nagy work, I found a lot of his work inspiring and the way he uses photography into his work.

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