Alex Villa
March 27, 2014
Modern Art Research Paper:
László Moholy-Nagy
Throughout history, many people - both men and women - have made a great deal of contributions to the art world, in one form or another. From Ancient Greek art in 1000 B.C. to impressionism in the 1870s, and the outsider art movement that is still going strong in the 21st Century, art has been shaped and molded by many people, ideas, concepts, and events that have shaped history. In this paper, I will be discussing and displaying my research on the modern artist László Moholy-Nagy and his body of works and how his contributions in art were both influenced and also influenced the Bauhaus movement.
László Moholy-Nagy was born in Bacsbarsod, Hungary on July 20, 1985 to a cousin was Sir Georg Solti, a conductor of his time. In spite of his German-Jewish origins, Moholy changed his original surname to Nagy - A Christian lawyer friend of his mother at the time. He chose the name Nagy in remembrance to honor the man whom helped raise him and his brothers and support them when their Jewish biological father, Lipót Weisz walked out on the family. Later in his life, he added the name "Moholy" to his complete surname in remembrance of the town of Mohol in which he was born and raised in. however, he did spend a good part of his childhood in the town of Ada, abet not too far from his home in Mohol. In the year 1918, he converted from his family religion to Protestantism - more specifically to Calvinism, which occurred at the local Hungarian Reformed Church. This was encouraged by his college friend, art critic, and godfather, Ivan Hevesy.
When it came down to academics, he attended Gymnasium (or better known as high school) in Szeged, Hungary as a teen...
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...ssstadt (or The dynamics of the big city in English), and him and Lajos Kassák worked together to edit Buch Neuer Kuenstler (or New book artist in English), which was the literary works of poetry and modern art alike. It was this book and Moholy-Nagy's work that got him a professor position from Gropius, who was the founder of the Staatliche Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany.
In the spring of 1923, Moholy-Nagy had the opportunity to replace the Weimar Bauhaus's head of the metal workshop Johannes Itten, which he did so. It was around this time that marked the ending of the school's focus on expressionistic teaching. Instead, it shifted more towards the original goals of being a school focused purely on industrial integration and design. It was this shift that influenced Moholy-Nagy's style and interest to more industrial design and architectural works of art of the time.
Bauhaus was a “utopian craft guild” that combined architecture, sculpture, and painting (Wilson). This idea attracted many highly experienced staff members. The staff at the school included such art figures as Wassily Kandinsky, Joseph Albers, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee, and Johannes Itten. Architectual figures at the school included Ludwig Mies van der Rode and Gropius himself. The only designer at the school was Marcel Breur. The staff members participated in one movement, the Arts and Crafts movement
geometrical elements and expressive values of colors, testify to a move away from individually handcrafted and traditionally shaped goods towards objects meeting functional requirements suitabl... ... middle of paper ... ...dynamic design of Moholy-Nagy. The color keys include green for agriculture, blue for mining, red for manufacturing, and brown for exports and imports. Mineral symbols were based on chemical elements. Drawing on Bauhaus methods, Bayer supported the concept of a total work of
The Influence of Bauhaus School of Design The Bauhaus was one of the most influential modernist art schools of the 20th century, not to say the most influential one. Their main concern was to teach, and to understand art 's relationship to society and technology. The school was founded by the German Architect: Walter Gropius. Consequently, The Bauhaus of Design had a huge impact in Europe which is the central continent of art and the United States even after it has been closed, and has forever shape
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