Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Isims & Depressing Movie

Depressing movie...*ORGAN* suprematism... Malevich. Revolution. Advent Guard art. Individuality in art not allowed. Socialist Realism was the only art accepted by communists. All the Cubism and suprematism stuff was hidden away... don't remember anymore...Hitler says that art needs to be understood by the Proletariat(common man and worker). In the times of the proletariat, maybe the art was understood, but honestly, I doubt it was fully understood until later.

Bauhaus 1919-1933

isims

illustrations, romantic. Allies powers.

reductive, sophisticated. Axis powers.
Hohlwein's work recognizable with stamp mark that looks like a Z. 1914. reductive form. figure downplay with figure's hat and background Red Cross. emotional appeal to donate to the Red Cross. 1936, winged figure souring through sky over the olympic flag. Stencil reductive form. 
Hitler propaganda says the allies posters were superior... ironic because axis was more superior.
Germany Und du? And you? Masculine poster
Hohlwein's work is tainted because he worked to Axis side.

1918, Edward McKnight Kauffer. ideas of cubism applied to communication design(like the cube-like birds and women & rain with umbrella) generous use of negative space. cubism.

Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.... cubism. analytical cubism = beginning. synthetic cubism= later, the collages.

1925 Adolphe Mouron Cassandre....language of abstraction. telegraph poles, structure. The telegraph
pictorial posters. north star, paris to amsterdam poster. white star and train track. Pullman car poster. graphically interesting. 
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ship is a rectangle, little tugboat. 
Dubonnet poster. The type words work with the art so well. It has greater meaning.
Train bar poster. Picture of train wheel, cubism bar items on top.

Russian Avent guard. 
Cubo-Futurism, suprematism, constructivism. 

Bala's dog. little dog, movement. 

Kazimir Malevich. Motion, cubism. Cubo-Futurism. Black Square and Suprematism Composition dude. suprematism.

cut paste, hand-done stuff.
Suprematism. Color & Emotion. primary elements. rejects pictorial. no narrative, just feeling. black square idea, red square. 1915.

Constructivism. Function is meaningful art according to constructivism. Vladimir Tatin. Rodchenko. El Lissitzky. Art should serve the new communist society.

abstract painting.... Kandinsky.

El Lissitzky. proum, an acronym. building. intersections, spacial, illusions. Beat the whites with the red wedge. Bolshevik is the red wedge. Conservatives is the white. 

The Isms of art... attempts to decode all of the isms. German, French, and English separated with big thick black bars. Grid system layout. Modern aesthetic. sans-serif typography. 

1 comment:

  1. I love that you place the images in your blog, but what I really want is to see that you are thinking and making connections. If you want your posts to easily go from ✓ to ✓+, be sure to give me your thoughts about the night's topic. Take advantage of the time at the end of class to think and write for 1o minutes.

    This evening I gave the class a specific topic to write on, "How do you do good art for the proletariat" and you didn't even attempt it.

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