El Lissitszy, Neville Brody and Moholy Nagy.
Lissitsky, (first image the constructor 1925) used photography as a means of creating a new image. 'I am a photographer, these are my tools, when you construct, you build'. He was very much interested in finding basic elements and bringing these together. He was a revolutionary, wanting to change things who wanted to used advertising to speak to people. His work is recognised for its strong graphic shapes and basic use of colour (red, white and black) such as in his piece 'beat the whites with the red wedge'.
'to design advertising means to be a social artist'. - El lissitsky
Neville Brody
Another pieces is by Neville Brody (the face 1984) which distinctively draws influence from the constructivist style of Lissitzsy - black and red, use of basic shape and reduced down elements.
Another pieces is by Neville Brody (the face 1984) which distinctively draws influence from the constructivist style of Lissitzsy - black and red, use of basic shape and reduced down elements.
Moholy Nagy
Moholy-Nagy - a hugarian born artist (1923-28) was an artist associated with the Bauhaus - which i shall cover later, of which he taught the metal workshops. During this time however, the Nazi's in Berlin were killing the Jews and subsequently in 1934, he left Germany for Amsterdam and the following year moved to London before coming in 1937 to the United States where he would found schools in Chicago based on Bauhaus principles.
His work was very much focused on geometry, perspectives and viewpoints. Around that the time of the new regimes, he was also interested revelution meant to artists and designers and how we can use design to create a better place.
Modernist
A word used alot to describe the new wave around this time was modernist, to be modernist was to have a new vision. The aim was to forge a new future, to be true with your own materials and to explore. Such as artists like Lissitzy and Nagy, experimenting with the use of photography, light and photograms. It was a period focused on technology and mechanical precision. A graphic economoy, keep it simple.
Moholy-Nagy - a hugarian born artist (1923-28) was an artist associated with the Bauhaus - which i shall cover later, of which he taught the metal workshops. During this time however, the Nazi's in Berlin were killing the Jews and subsequently in 1934, he left Germany for Amsterdam and the following year moved to London before coming in 1937 to the United States where he would found schools in Chicago based on Bauhaus principles.
His work was very much focused on geometry, perspectives and viewpoints. Around that the time of the new regimes, he was also interested revelution meant to artists and designers and how we can use design to create a better place.
Modernist
A word used alot to describe the new wave around this time was modernist, to be modernist was to have a new vision. The aim was to forge a new future, to be true with your own materials and to explore. Such as artists like Lissitzy and Nagy, experimenting with the use of photography, light and photograms. It was a period focused on technology and mechanical precision. A graphic economoy, keep it simple.
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