Art And Visual Design : El Lissitzky And Modern Visual Design

Though the start of the modernisation may trace back to the beginning of Industrial Revolution. “Modernism in the design world did not exist in a fully developed form, until well after First World War.” (Wilk, 2006) Causing the great loss of lives and other countless damage to the world, it reshaped many people’s way of thinking the world. With the inspiration of early avant-garde movement, the modernism began to emerge advocating an utopian future and shared certain core principles by various styles of modernists: rejecting the past and applied ornament; forms follow function, a preference for

Frank Gehry is a typical post-modernism and deconstructivism architect, Americans like to call him “another Frank” because of Frank Lloyd Wright who was famous as a modernism architect. And he did not like to be constantly compared with Wright, emphasizing their differences. Under the influence of deconstructivism, a lot of Frank Gehry’s design shows full comprehension of the structures and the principle of designing by using the twisted shapes and some uncovered structure form. In this passage, I will analyze the influences of Frank Gehry’s design; the extent of influence that he got from Frank Lloyd Wright, and compare and contrast their works by using Frank Gehry’s house and Jacob’s house by Frank Lloyd Wright

The transition between the 19th and 20th century has brought further development of modernistic ideas, concepts and techniques in art. Inspired by Cezanne’s idea, saying that all nature objects can be illustrated with just three geometrical figures: cube, sphere and cone, Pablo Picasso created his first paintings, which became the icons of modern art and cubism movement in

The innovative and passionate presence in both Jackson Pollock’s and Wassily Kandinsky avant-garde paintings exemplifies the redefinition of boundaries throughout their art making practices. Both artists challenged traditions both materially and conceptually using innovative and diverse approaches to materials and techniques when painting. Wassily Kandinsky goes against traditions and academies to create vivid, sensual and symbolic large-scale semi abstract expressionist oil paintings in a heightened state of mind. Many artworks of his convey bright and cheerful spontaneous colours that make the audience fully consumed within his works due to hypnotic and distorted semi realist shapes. Consequently, Jackson Pollock also goes against

Gropius, inspired from the constitutive beliefs of the arts and craft movement, had a utopian dream to combine art, design and the industry of architecture in ideal unity. Hence the Bauhaus movement was founded on collaboration of all different art forms. Instructors such as Paul Klee, Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy each specialized in their own field of designs and craftsmanship. With these artists shaping the Bauhaus movement, the style and the elements that came along with it are immortalized even today. Walter Gropius’ form-follows-function philosophy still influences every aspect of art including advertising, typography, architecture, and people’s living spaces. The Bauhaus expressed an

Phones are the easiest and most common way to get connected. Through his art, Pawel Kuczynski is warning the audience of problems that phones cause among people. The artist has created many paintings to convey the idea of technology causing people to become separated and disconnected from one another. Kuczynski’s art could be seen as a metaphor for young people, being connected through technology but still isolated in loneliness. Phones are most likely the most commonly used source of communication in the world; which begs the question of how they could possibly be disconnecting people. The title alone, Islands, suggests to the audience a sense of distance and isolation. That is also conveyed in the painting itself with the use of perspective

Architecture had a great influence on graphic design from the 1900's to 1950's. Many art movements and artists influenced Graphic Design. Peter Behrens, El Lissitesky, Bauhaus, and Futurism all greatly impacted the Graphic Design concepts of today. Design was blended with architecture, especially in the Bauhaus school in Germany.

Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian-born artist, whose contributions to the world of modern art are innumerable. On an artistic level, Kandinsky's maturation process from representational art to abstract art is fascinating. From his earliest work, with an impressionistic flair, to his later work, which was pure abstraction, Kandinsky was an innovator and a genius. He bridged the gap between reality painting of earlier decades and the fantasy pastime of the twentieth century.

Most often artist influence of movement or design from another pattern. These designers influenced by movement such as De Stiji, Bauahaus. According designers,

[The Bauhaus Reassessed] What unique about the Bauhaus is the fact that its ideologies epitomize changing concepts concerning the nature and purpose of design in the early twentieth century. The art inherited reinterpreted and then rejected the

This essay will compare two artists from different countries, one is a Russian artist called Wassily Kandinsky and the other one is Guan Zhong Wu, he comes from China which is my own country. The two artists lived in different cultural backgrounds during the same period, so they had significant similarities and differences. First, this essay will compare the similar artistic spirit between the two artists. Second, this essay will examine the different drawing tools that the two artists used for their paintings. Third, this essay will discussion the two artists using the similar “point and line to plane” (Kandinsky 1979:1) to paint different style pictures. Finally, this essay will analyses the influences of European and oriental culture on

We begin with one of the most important factors, the designers themselves. Without the designers to create the style, there would be no style. Josef Müller-Brockmann was a leading figure of Swiss graphic design in the 1950’s and 1960’s. He began his path towards the Swiss style in the early 1930’s as a student of Ernst

The Bauhaus school was founded in 1919 in Weimar by German architect Walter Gropius (1883 - 1969). In 1923, Walter Gropius introduced the agreement between “creative artists and the industrial world”. The Bauhaus is most famous for the idea of combining forms and functions. They combined both fine arts and design elements to create a curriculum that trained artists and designers to be capable of producing both functional and aesthetic work. One of the main goals was to bring design and technology together. During the Bauhaus period, Fine art and craft were combined together and aimed toward problem solving for an innovative, modern and industrial society. Nowadays, the Bauhaus legacy continues in modern designs, such as minimalism, or design brands like IKEA. In this essay, I will analyze Bauhaus’s influence on modern design, including architecture and furniture design by exploring different examples from different periods of time.

THREE DIMENSIONAL DESIGN VOCABULARY LIST Prof. Leisek CATEGORIES OF ART • Fine art – aesthetically pleasing and intellectually brilliant work. • Commercial art – graphic art created specifically for ads, illustrations, books, etc. • Applied art – the adornment of everyday objects. • Functional art/

The beginning of 20th century was a time of drastic change. New developments were made in the arenas of the classical sciences, social science, psychology and philosophy - each challenging traditional thought. Industrialization and the introduction of many new, challenging concepts in the fields of politics as well as the development of new technologies gave artist more freedom to innovate and break the rules of traditional art. By using new materials, techniques and the new approach artists were pushing boundaries of what has previously been accepted art practice in order to invent radically new styles.