04/07 Ornament is Crime
Vinicio Paladini
"The Proletariat" Created a lot of artworks that merged machine and man
Marcel Bruer
"nature and architecture are two different things"
Bauhaus
"the house for building" -Funded by industrialists Bauhaus remained in Weimar from 1919-1923, and then moved around Germany during Nazi occupation before it was forced to close
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret
(architect) Swiss architect active in France; one of the most influential architects and theorists of the 20th century; Villa Savoye, Poissy; United Habitation, Marseille; Pilgrimage Church, Ronchamp
Machine man
= proletariat The idea of the man and machine merger is an important concept during the 1920s
Minamilism
Adolf Loos "Ornament is crime"
Ornament is crime
Adolf Loos -Minimalism -Something that is not needed, no embellishment is needed, waste of money and time and energy
Moholy-Nagy
Artist known for light modulators
Frank Lloyd Wright
Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs. -True love was japanese architecture -Embraced modern materials
Avant Garde/Futurist Architecture
Futurists moved into the field of avant garde architecture around
kinetic sculpture
Kinetic sculpture that incorporates the use of light as a new material for sculpture
"Less is more"
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect, minimalism, used modern materials -You can make more by eliminating elements
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Professor and architect at Bauhaus -Seagram Building -Less is more Modern material
Johannes Itten
Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus -taught the first color theory class
Machine art in the 1920s
The idea that the machine is something that envelopes/intrigues the human being → humans becoming slaves to machines(?), crashing the human identity
Technology in 20s
Throughout the 20s, a lot of the artists end up being sucked into the modern era and becoming designers, engineers, people that think they can use modern machines to change the world.
Adolf Loos
Villa Muller Published the "ornament is crime" article -Simplicity is a manifesto -Limited amount of colors and designs
The Elements of Color
What differentiates and defines lines, shapes, forms, and space. Even black and white images have a huge number of different shades of gray.
Antonio Sant'Elia
Wrote *The Manifesto of Futurist Architecture* called for construction based on technology and science and for design that addressed the unique demands of modern life. He declared decoration (ornament)to be absurd and used dynamic diagonal and elliptic lines because their emotional power was greater than horizontals and verticals.
Paul Klee (1879 - 1940)
a Swiss - born painter and graphic artist whose personal, often gentaly humorous works containg allusions to dreams, music, and poetry. -Shows successful use of warm and cool colors, primary colors, and the overall language of colors
Reinforced Concrete architecture
building out of Reinforced Concrete can support a large amount of weight -skeleton of steel or iron -takes on a natural shape too
LOEB
sustained the idea of limiting the power of politicians and democracy, and substituting it with technocrats
concept of "Robo"
taken from the czech word "robota" which means "a hard worker"