Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Art Deco through De Stijl

ART DECO

-Style:
-Geometric
-Machine like designs
-Infulences
-Art Nouveau
-Vienna Secession
-Bauhaus

SUPREMATISM

-started by Kasimir Malevich
-He focused on form and color
-Style
-nonobjective
-very abstract
-geometric
-not have scence that are usually found in nature
-Example: Malevich painted on a clean white background, a black square

CONSTRUCTIVISM

-Cut all traditional ties to the traditional art
-centered themselves, as artists, to industrial, visual communication design
-no longer creating paintings but focus on posters
-Example: Aleksei Garis' Konstruckivism (1922)

DE STIJL

-Started in the Neitherlands in 1917
-Driving forces in the movement:
Theo von Doesburg
Piet Mondrian
Bart Anthony Van der Leck
Vilmos Huszan
-Artists looked for "a universal laws of equilibrium and harmony for art"
-Influences and Styles:
-Van Gogh
-uses neutrals and primary colors
-Symbolic
-Uses nature
-geometric abstraction

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