Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Cubism and stuff

Peter Behrens
first running sans serif
identity system
lots of circles and squares
architecture
building houses turbine
Narrow tracks freak us artists out.
Different interests include design.
Design is trying to take over the world.
The way of thinking-design
1914 WWI   1917 Russian Revolution   1918 Czar Assassinated WWI Ends   1919 Bahaus opens   1926 NBC First national radio network   1929 stockmarket crash

ask "What's it all about, Alfie?"
design relates into everything!!

Lucien Bernhard Priester (matches)


less traditional and more abstract
Julius Klinger war bond posters

Uncle Sam by James Flag
Bauhaus 1919-1933
cubism create 3d form in 2d space
Dada 1916-1920 "A European artistic and literary movement (1916-1923) that flouted conventional aesthetic and cultural values by producing works marked by nonsense, travesty, and incongruity."

1920s entertainment posters, cubism
travel posters

reductive design, abstraction

mathmatics is in everything...(sigh.)

Paul Rand cubism, collage

Avant Garde

Thoughts
It seems today that all forms of art, new and old styles, are used in all media because there is a broader base of artists. Since each generation composes something creative by modifying multiple styles, there are also opportunities to create more styles of art and design in all forms of media.


Questions

When did writing letters and using the post office become popular?

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