Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Hungarian-born László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was influential not only as a photographer but also as a filmmaker, teacher, and painter. He taught at the Bauhaus in Germany and, after fleeing the Nazi regime, settled in Chicago, where he founded the Institute of Design. He pioneered the photomontage and created the camera-less medium of the "photogram."

Sixty reproductions from the J. Paul Getty Museum's outstanding collection of the work of this important photographer—each described by Katherine Ware—serve as an exciting introduction to Moholy-Nagy's work. This book, the second publication in the In Focus series, includes the edited transcript of a recent colloquium that provides the historical and critical perspective necessary for understanding Moholy-Nagy's vital contribution to the art of the twentieth century.

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Richard Huelsenbeck

Huelsenbeck was born in Frankenau, Germany in 1892.

He joined the Caberet Voltaire as a result of his friend Huge Ball. He annoyed the public in a way rivalled only by Tzara, Huelsenbeck annoyed the world with his 'school boy insolence' - he was a loud, noisy upstart and delighted in irritating people.

Huelsenbeck was more prolific a writer than an artist, he was obsessed with Negro rhythms - his public readins of poetry were usually accompanied by a large tomtom drum. Ball said that Huelsenbeck would like to "drum literiture into the ground."
Huelsenbeck came to Berlin in 1917 and found a war weary city riddled with corruption. He promptly denounced his Dada colleagues and said that to have any relevance in Germany Dada must be stronger and even mre provocative than in Zurich - it must be ready to 'make literature with a gun'. He joined with other artists Franz Jung, George Grosz, Raoul Hausmann and Johannes Baader who declared himself 'super-dada'. Together they founded the 'Christ & Co. Ltd.' and stormed the Weimar Diet and threw down leaflets declaring themselves rulers of the Glob

Huelsenbeck, Cover of En avant Dada


Monday, April 21, 2008

Herbert Bayer

Herbert Bayer was born in 1900, in Austria. In 1919 he became 
apprentice to architect George Schmidthanmer who worked 
in architecture decorative arts.
At the age of nineteen Herbert Bayer took up an apprenticeship with the architect and designer Georg Schmidthamer in Linz, where he produced his first typographic works. From 1921 Bayer worked at the Darmstadt artists' colony as assistant to the architect Josef Emmanuel Margold. In the same year Bayer enrolled as a student at the Weimar Bauhaus, where he initially attended the pre-course under Johannes Itten followed by a workshop on mural painting, lead by Wassily Kandinsky. In 1925 the artist completed his training with a final examination. Bayer was appoined head of the newly created workshop for print and advertising at the Dessau Bauhaus, where they also produced the school's own printworks. His a work is a very nice pretty workof art i would also put this work of art my house with no problem.It is colorful.
Herbert Bayer, Chromatic GatesHerbert Bayer, Chromatic GateHerbert Bayer, Undulated Wall

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser, Great Illustrators posterArt is Work
Born June 26 1929 -

Milton Glaser is a graphic designer, best known for his "Bob Dylan" poster, the I Love New York logo, and the "DC bullet" logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005. He also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968.

Glaser was educated at New York City's High School of Music and Art (now Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts), graduated from the Cooper Union in 1951 and later, via a Fulbright Scholarship, the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna under Giorgio Morandi.

Bart Van der Leck

Bart Van der Leck
This art work is by  Bart Van der Leck is a picture i would say is hard to understand can be what u want it to be. Its like Visual Art.
Bart van der Leck (November 261876Utrecht - November 131958Blaricum) was a Dutch painter, designer, and ceramacist. With Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondriaan he founded the De Stijl art movement.
Son of a house painter, he started his career learning how to make stained glass in a shop in Utrecht. An example of his later stained glass work is in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Hoge Veluwe, Netherlands.
He tried his hand at typography, stained-glass work, interior design and ceramics, but – contrary to what he himself aimed at - owes his reputation mainly to painting.

Alphonsa Mucha

This is a work of art by Alphonsa Mucha and this pieces of art is call women and flowers. I think that this art work is say how much women love flower and how pretty flowers and women are and I love this art work because it is so pretty. This is something i would bring in to my house and hang up that how pretty this is to me i would buy this art work. He use typography  and what he use is art nouveau. This is a picture at the top to see.
Alphonse Mucha was born in 1860 in Ivancice, Moravia, which is near the city of Brno in the modern Czech Republic. It was a small town, and for all intents and purposes life was closer to the 18th than the 19th century. Though Mucha is supposed to have started drawing before he was walking, his early years were spent as a choirboy and amateur musician. It wasn't until he finished high school (needing two extra years to accomplish that onerous task) that he came to realize that living people were responsible for some of the art he admired in the local churches. That epiphany made him determined to become a painter, despite his father's efforts in securing him "respectable" employment as a clerk in the local court.

Monday, April 14, 2008

Hand Painted

Hand Painted is a font that look like someone has written it. It is very understandable depending on how the person has written it most of it look like letters with lines on it. Some may look like bubbles letters some may be funny looken  but that is what hand painted is.