Tuesday, April 19, 2011

HAHAHAHA IM ALIVE

Day8

El Lissitsky - proun
-its propiganda, its fuctional

suprematist - should be purely emotional not functional

constructivists

photography- modern way of creating art
montage - Eisenstein 
layering images, cutting sequences  to create
The Battleship Potemkin

Alxander Rodchenko
-Penultimate contructivism
-contructiviism the only true art has function for the people

De Stijl
-utopian approach to aesthetics 

-Rectilinaer planes
-void of surface textures or decorations except pure hues
-mathematical structure

Theo van Doesburg - founder of De Stijl

asymmetrical composition 

Mondrian 

HAHAHAHA IM ALIVE


For me the De Stijl work we saw is boring. I think if you reduce something so much it loses its idiosyncrasies that make something interesting. The Suprematist and Constructivists made interesting work. Dorian talked about them like it was so obvious what they were for, but for me they were a little ambiguous. Such as the kid throwing up cookies or a guy with nails in his mouth. Visually I think they were beautiful but I feel like reduced work is only good if it is in contrast with what is going on around it. So what Im saying is if everything was stark geometric shapes, everything becomes the same. Thats my story and Im sticking to it.

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