Week 8

All this crazy stuff is happening in the early 1900s.

Tonight, we're going to look at the effects of Cubism on design.

Axis Graphics

- more sophisticated

- more graphic

- very reductive

Ludwig Hohlwein

- has a little stamp for his signature

- very iconic work, deal with Red Cross & Jesse Owens

- preferred allies work

Cubism

- becomes popular and people start using it

- analytical cubism early phase

- new ways of understanding space

- reclining person + railroad track = bad

- exaggerated propotion scale

Kasander

- break things up and you get different levels of meaning

- Dubo ---> Dubon ---> Dubonnet

- someone gave God a French kiss

- Paul Rand worked on the Dubonnet for 10 years

- He also clowns Cubism

Some image with trains and bars (Wagon-Bar)

- you got your wines

- fancy cheeses

- even more wine in fancy cups

- Seltzer bottle

Before WWI

- workers around the world pissed off, particularly in Russia

Russia

- 1917 Tzar forced to abdicate throne

- Lenin & Friends take charge

We're in the "ism" mode

- people are looking for universal truth

- we want answers

- what do we believe in?

- we believe we know things better than anyone else

- black madonnas

Russian Avant Garde

- first wave

Cubo-Futurism

- not like Cuban Castro

- combining Cubism with Futurism

Suprematism

- art should not have utilitarian function

- work should be about color and emotion

Constructivism

- the only meaningful art have function

- things that have function are there for art

- renounce art for arts sake

- art should serve new communist society

Vladimir Tatin

Rodchenko

Lissitszcky

- painter, teacher, architect, and everything else in the world

- influences Constructivism and Bahaus and something else

- supremacist ideas

- develops idea of the prown

- looks for intersection between painting and architecture

- what is more utopian than building

- floating spatial relationships

- uses illusion, things receding/projecting

- unity between art and technology

- how can we explore space and do architecture and what not

- it's more than just painting a square

Kandinsky

- invents abstract painting

Apparently Dorian falls into "universal designer look"

Black bars become popular in design

MOVIE TIME - RUSSIAN AVANT GARDE

How do you do good art for the proletariat?

For starters the proletariat have a different taste from their counterparts the bourgeois. They are the low wealth hard working class who just try to get by every day. Because they are not very lavish or overly fancy I feel like their art should be the same. I think the art they would like deals with not only activities that they do everyday but things they can look forward to. It should be a simplistic style with meticulous attention to detail with a subject matter of achievable goals for the working class. I think if you put effort and hear into your art the proletariat will truly appreciate your work for what it is.