Entry 8

Notes-

Suprematist believed in the idea of jus pure color in their work. 

El Lissitzky-

El Lissitzky he's a painter, he helped pioneers but he's not dogmatic as moliavich and influenced distil and the bauhaus. He uses primary and simple shapes like black, white and red. he explores the interaction between the painting and arcitechtture. he develops P.r.o.u.n s which stands for project for establishment of the new art. He takes a scientific approach of he new art. Beat the whites with the red edge, it's a propaganda poster that's the most remembered of his work. wrote a book called the ism's of art, where he looks on what's going on with art. He has a interesting page system where he develops a mathematical grid system for the pages. It's written in english, german,and french languages. he brings modern ideas, with asymmetrical balance, white space, san serif type and  he shows that grids are a system of rules. 

The Battleship Potemkin- Video

Alexander Rodchenko-

in 1924, he attended art school from 1910-1914. He explored line and circles during one of his projects. he did simple pieces were he was influenced by Suprematism. 'I reduced painting to it's logical conclusion" as he says when he shows the primary colors of red, yellow, and black. he says painting doesn't serve society and moved to construcitivism. the style was primitive, raw and experimental. in 1928, it evolves and looks almost contemporary. After the revolution, people soon wanted power and creates teams where personal expression isn't aloud. Constructivist art is all about product like ads. 

De Stijl- 

it functions in a little window of time. it ends abruptly and it's based on an utopia approach to aesthetics. it's based on functionalism and relates to constructivism, 

 uses primary colors and black and white. it sought to express mathematical structures and express the universe and universal harmony. the groups known member and leader is Theo Vandosbergs. when he dies, it's that when the movement stops. They soon embrace asymmetrical composition in their magazine. the type makes you move around the page. it happened in 1922. 

Dadaism- 

Dadaism is where they say the world is chaos and the world has no meaning, so why should art have meaning? Theo actually embraced Dadaism. cause he believed in order to establish a new art, you had to destroy everything else, destroy the old tradition. Piet Mondrian is the most famous De Stijl Artist. Theo and Mondrian were buddies but had a fight. Theo wanted to use diagonals with the art, Mondrian was pissed about that. You can see an evolution of Mondrian work when he paints the same thing with a different interpretation. 

Bauhaus- 

it was a school like Ringling. in germany, it sucked, they lost the first world war, had pictures of people buying bread with a wheel-barrel of money. it;' built around and ideal to create a spiritual idea of utopian society. it was based around of looking for a unity to build a new future of craftsmanship. it exist in three different cities. in 1919-1925 in Weinar, Peope question how they were spending their  money for their art students. they have their first exhibition to earn money. in Dessau ,they were harassed by Nazi's and criticized the art students for their work with the art school. the built their school their. When the Nazi's kick them out. they go to a nasty place Berlin with awful environment. 

(get dates about Bauhaus from slideshow)

Personal Thoughts- Class was really depressing, the movies made me sad. Hahaha, just screwing with you. It was good to get a reminder as to how the Bauhaus operated with not a lot of money for an art school to stand. Especially with the poor surroundings and the Nazi's scooting them away. It's also nice to know about artist who use geometric shapes and mathematical grid systems as the way Lissiitzky had done. Another simplicity that was used in art with influenced Suprematism that I thought could be another relatable artist was Rodchenko. I thought his style and inspiration was new and creative but despite wanting to evolve from raw and primitive work as he calls it I still think all types of work can still be appreciate as we still look back at our work today. Dadaism keeps on reminding me that since life has no meaning, then why should art. I'm thinking about adding chaos to my personal work so I can make my work mean more to me than just a grade. The movie about the Bauhaus was moving shown how far people were willing to go for their art and what it takes to stand against oppression of the Nazi's. Have lots of thought on how I'm going to memorize this for the quiz and test. and seeing if their work will help with my style someday. 

Questions-  What did Theo and Mondrian have to relate to about their work before they had the big fight about the diagonal debate?