February 17, 2010

Important topics introduced tonight:

• Kasimir Malevich
• Suprematism - school of painting using only pure form and color.
• Suprematism- creates a theoretical model for an abstract visual language where form is understood as a set of forces soon aligned with those of revolution.
• Constructivist Movement
• Alexander Rodchenko
• Constructivism
• photomontage
• Salomon Tellingater
• EL Lissitzky
• The Steinberg Brothers
• Theo van Doesburg
• Gerrit Rietveld
• Cubism


In tonight's class we talked about the works of Rodchenko and Gustav Klutis. I was very interested in both of their works and how they mixed photography with type and still gave their message. In the work of Gustav Klutis I liked the mixture of the cut out images and how he played with the text. He used techniques of collage, which I have always found very interesting because there is always something to look at. Rodchenko's works where a little more laid back and had more white spaces, but he still played with the idea of collage and images. He used several techniques that are still used today, such as: showing simultaneous action, superimposing images,using extreme close-ups and perspective images, and rhythmic repetition of an image for
effect. Throughout the entire class we also saw many other artist's works that had the same techniques including strong diagonals and forms.