Erik Nitsche and the World of Design

Horst became very involved in the art community while in Paris and

Between the end of the First World War and Hitler's seizure of power a cultural explosion occurred in Paris that altered our notions of art and reality and shaped our way of viewing the world ever since. In the 1920's, Paris became the undisputed international capital of pleasure and was regarded as the cultural and artistic center of Europe with a reputation for staging one of its most glamorous eras, as well as some of the most spectacular revues in the world. Imagine for a moment, that it really is 1920's Paris. You are leisurely strolling through the gas lit promenades. World War I is over and the exuberance of jazz musicians, symbolist painters, and American expatriates

1) This is an experiment because they are manipulating the amount of caffeine given to the participants. The dependant variable is the time spent on the puzzle. The independent variable is the caffeine.

The Design Argument The name teleological is derived from the Greek word ‘telos’ meaning ‘end’ or ‘purpose’. Thus nature is viewed as directed in order that something beneficial may result. More popularly it is referred to as the ‘argument from design’, but this wording assumes the very thing that has to be proved. A better description would be the ‘argument for design’.

When looking at what factors lead to the rise of the pictorial poster, it is clear to see that the majority of them occurred in late nineteenth century Paris and that perhaps one man, Jules Chéret, can be thanked for exploiting and mastering the techniques which made these posters reach the levels of respect previously reserved for the fine arts. As well as Jules Chéret and his mastery of lithography I will be exploring the influence of Japan and their printing techniques upon Toulouse Lautrec as well as Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann’s renovation of Paris during its Second empire, the impacts of the rising middle class, and the effects that tax had upon the walls of Paris.

So, he went to Paris, France in the 50s to learn more art techniques, that later helped him advance in his art work. He was always surrounded by creativity, even his brother Joseph Delaney was an aspiring painter. His family of 12 were hardworking people who faced much hardship. His mother was even a slave, and the Delaneys often faced intense racism. Causing only four of the children

From being successful in the economic world, he gains money to purchase a hotel. One hotel he bought was in midtown. In the hotel he had his artwork. His artwork came from many European areas. In the hotel in had detailed moldings, paneling, lead glass, and crystal chandeliers. He also created the conference

Alexandre Hogue was born February 22, 1898 in Missouri and moved to Denton, Texas soon after. He went to high school in Dallas, Texas but attended college for one year at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Alexandre got a job at Dallas Morning News as an illustrator so he maoved back to Dallas. In 1921, he moved to New York City to work with calligraphy, film advertisements, and studied in different museums. Every summer, he would travel to and from Texas to draw with Charles Franklin Reaugh and to start his painting career. He got a job at Texas State College for Women as an art teacher, and later on made head of the art department at Hockaday Junior College. Hogue became head of the art department at the University of Tulsa, where he settled down and then later on, died.

Rauschenberg’s pieces set out to redefine art through a very conscious negation of the work of an illustrious forbear. His interest in testing the boundaries took a sensational spin as his methods led him to the process of erasure; meaning to scrape. In the summer of 1951 while at Black Mountain College, Rauschenberg was creating his series White Paintings, a

Paul Rand is known as one of the most influential and finest American graphic designer of the twentieth century. He is known for his art work predominantly for design, graphic design and typography. Paul Rand was born in August 15, 1914 in Brooklyn, New York with the name Peretz Rosenbaum. Rand was known as “self- taught designer”, he learned about works of Cassandre and Moholy-Nagy from European magazines. His esteemed contribution to the design form is acknowledged by many critics and is amazingly extraordinary. However, corporate identity design was the area during his peak design career that gave him global recognition. He is looked upon as one of the genius who essentially established standards for the conception of logos for the

Roy Liechtenstein, (fig 1) was born in 1923 into to a middle class Hungarian family living in New York, there was no artists on either side of his family and throughout Liechtenstein’s schooling there were no art

Vincent tried first to learn the art works to other artists. When he was 16, he started working as a art dealer at a firm of Goupil & Co. located in Belgium and

He began to draw and paint for play, often portraying the jazz musicians he loved to listen to in Harlem theaters. He also joined a famous art school, the Ohio State University's School of Fine Arts, where he was able to follow the art classes of a famous professor. In 1945, after the war, to which he had actively participated in Europe, he moved to Paris. During this period he painted mostly geometric works, inspired by the Cubism he had always admired. Until 1951 he taught at the art school he had attended as a young man. His first solo show was just in Ohio. His paintings were not easy to understand: they were a mixture between Cubism and Expressionism, but then began

Stefan Sagmeister also has two published books under his design belt (Sagmeister). Made You Look, Sagmeister’s first book was published in 2001

With Leon Bakst he saw the reproductions of Fauve canvases, the sketches of Van Gogh and of Cezzanne his ambition to go to Paris was