1920's Art Movements: 2008

Sunday, 9 November 2008

WE HAVE NOW DECIDED THAT THE THEME FOR THE FILM WOULD BE ARCHITECTURE AS WE WANT TO KEEP IT SPECIFIC SO IT IS EASIER TO GET ACROSS. WE DECIDED ON MAKING A CHRYSLER BUILDING OUT OF BOXES TO USE IN THE PRESENTATION. THE CHRYSLER BUILDING WAS USED AS IT WAS PROBABLY THE MOST WELL KNOWN ART DECO BUILDING CREATED IN THE 20'S. I WAS NOT SURE ON THIS IDEA, I WONDERED HOW MUCH INFORMATION COULD BE PRESENTED IN A SILENT MOVIE, AND IM QUITE RESERVED ABOUT DOING THIS SORT OF THING IN FRONT OF SO MANY PEOPLE. HOWEVER NOW WE HAVE DISCUSSED WHAT THE IDEA WILL BE I THINK IT MAY JUST WORK. I HAVE ALSO BECOME THE "TECHNICIAN" WHICH MEANS I WILL BE TIMING THE SHOW AND CONTROLING THE MUSIC, AND SLIDESHOW.

Group Part of the Project

WE HAVE NOW BEEN PUT INTO OUR GROUPS FOR THE GROUP PART OF THE PROJECT. WE SAT IN OUR GROUP EXCHANGED PHONE NUMBERS AND DISCUSSED IDEAS, WE PRETTY MUCH HAD THE IDEA BY THE END OF THE FIRST DAY BUT IT NEEDED REFINING. THE IDEA WAS TO ACT OUT A SILENT MOVIE THIS WAS GENERALLY BECAUSE NONE OF US WANTED TO TALK. THE REASON THIS IDEA WAS DEVELOPED WAS BECAUSE THE 1920'S WAS A SIGNIFICANT TIME FOR FILMS, AND THEY CONTINUED TO BE SILENT UNTIL 1929. THE SUBJECT FOR THE FILM WAS YET TO BE DECIDED.

Monday, 3 November 2008

THE MOST POPULAR POSTERS DURING THIS TIME HAVE BEEN THE POSTERS CREATED FOR THE LONDON TRANSPORT SYSTEM HOWEVER IT SEEMS THAT IN THE 1920'S ADVERTISING POSTERS WERE GROWING IN POPULARITY AND MANY OF THE ARTISTS BECAME POPULAR FOR CREATING THESE PARTICULAR POSTERS

Edward Mcknight Kauffer

Edward Mcknight Kauffer is probably best known for the 140 posters that he produced for London Underground, and later London Transport. The posters span many styles: many show abstract influences, including futurism, cubism, and vorticism; others evoke impressionist influences such as Japanese woodcuts. He was an American born artist who was very popular in the UK producing posters, book covers and other forms of design including interior design

PIET ZWART

Piet Zwart was a Dutch photographer, typographer, and industrial designer who started his career as an Architect. Zwart used the basic principles of constructivism and "De Stijl" in his commercial work. His work can be recognized by its primary colors, geometrical shapes, repeated word patterns and an early use of photomontage. He was a pioneer of modern typography as he made the decision to overlook the rules of traditional typography. I have seen his work on numerous occasions as im sure most other graphic designers have.

EL LISSITZKY

El Lissitzky was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect who has played a key role in the direction that graphic design has taken over the years. His work greatly influenced the Bauhaus and constructivist movements both of which I take interest in. He taught from the age of 15 and continued to do so for the rest of his life. He is best known for his graphic design and typography which at the time was new, modern and different.

AM CASSANDRE

AM Cassandre was a Ukrainian-French painter, commercial poster artist, and typeface designer who has produced some of the best Graphic Design that exists. He is known worldwide for his poster and type designs. His popular advertising posters enabled him to get a job working in a printing house. Inspired by cubism as well as surrealism, he earned a reputation with works such as Bûcheron (Woodcutter), a poster created for a cabinetmaker that won first prize at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs. He became very popular and opened his own advertising agency with partners producing work for a wide variety of clientele for a range of purposes.

THE TOPIC THAT I DECIDED TO USE WAS POSTERS AS MANY OF THE ARTISTS FAMOUS FOR THE POSTERS DURING THIS TIME HAVE COME TO MY ATTENTION BEFORE AS THEY ARE SOME OF THE BEST DESIGNERS TO THIS DAY

Sunday, 2 November 2008

CHOOSING TOPIC

I HAVE LIMITED THE TOPICS DOWN TO JUST THREE POSTERS, PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE AS I WOULD FIND THESE MOST THE MOST INTERESTING AND I THINK THAT THEY RELATE TO THE ART MOVEMENTS OF THE 1920'S

ARTISTS WHO HAVE LINKS TO SURREALISM AROUND THE 1920'S

JOAN MIRO
MAX ERNST
PICASSO
GIORGIO DE CHIRLCO
WASSILY KANDINSKY
YVES TANGUY

ARTISTS LINKED TO PHOTOGRAPHY AROUND THE 1920'S

ANSEL ADAMS
EDWARD WESTON
MAN RAY
ROBERT DOISNEAU
BRASSA
CARTIER BRESSON
JULIA MARGARET CAMERON
EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE
ALVIN LANGDON COBURN
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
JH LARTIGUE
LASZLO MOHOLY-NAGY
BILL BRANDT
EVE ARNOLD

ARTISTS WITH LINKS TO ARCHITECTURE AROUND THE 1920'S

WILLAM VAN ALEN
LE CORBUSIER
BERTHOLD LUBETKIN
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH
ANTONI GAUDI
EDWARD LUTYENS
CHARLES VOYSEY

ALL OF THESE ARTISTS ARE LINKED TO GRAPHIC DESIGN AROUND THE 1920S

AM CASSANDRE
EL LISSITZKY
PIET ZWART
RAYMOND LOEWY
JOCK KINNEAR
HERBERT SPENCE
ARCHIBALD KNOX
EDWARD JOHNSON
ALFONS MUCHA
HERBERT BAYER
DOROTHY DIX
EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER
MAN RAY
SALVADOR DALI

Saturday, 1 November 2008

SURREALISM

Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and humour; however many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artifact.

"Leader Andr'e Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was above all a revolutionary movement".

Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities of World War I and the most important center of the movement was Paris. From the 1920s on, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film, and music, of many countries and languages, as well as political thought and practice, and philosophy and social theory.

THIS IMAGE WAS PRODUCED BY MAX ERNST IN 1921 AND IS NAMED THE ELEPHANT CELEBES

Thursday, 30 October 2008

ART DECO

ART DECO WAS A POPULAR INTERNATIONAL ART MOVEMENT FROM 1925 - 1939 AND IT AFFECTED ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR DESIGN, INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, FASHION, PAINTING, GRAPHIC ARTS AND FILM. IT WAS SAID TO HAVE PEAKED DURING THE "ROARING 20'S". THIS MOVEMENT IS STILL POPULAR TODAY WITH MANY PEOPLE DESIGNING ART DECO HOUSES AND FURNITURE.

CITY HALL OF BUFFALO NEW YORK, DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT GEORGE DIETEL WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF JOHN J WADE

BAUHAUS

The Bauhaus is one of the first colleges of design. It came into being from the merger of the Weimar Academy of Arts and the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts. It was founded by Walter Gropius in 1919 and was closed in 1933 by the Nazis. The Bauhaus is one of the most important Design Movements in the twentieth century. It took place in Germany of the 1920s and early 1930s. This was the age of the Bauhaus, a movement which was a reaction to social change and which aspired an aesthetic relevance

Wednesday, 29 October 2008

CONSTRUCTIVISM

"Constructivism was an artistic and architectural movement in Russia from 1919 onward which rejected the idea of "art for art's sake" in favour of art as a practice directed towards social purposes. Constructivism as an active force lasted until around 1934, having a great deal of effect on developments in the art of the Weimar Republic and elsewhere, before being replaced by Socialist Realism. Its motifs have sporadically recurred in other art movements since."

Photomontage by Tatlin showing his clothing designs, 1924

Tatlin's tower started a period of exchange of ideas between Moscow and Berlin, something reinforced by El Lissitzky and Ilya Ehrenburg's Soviet-German magazine Veshch-Gegenstand-Objet which spread the idea of 'Construction art', as did the Constructivist exhibits at the 1922 Russische Ausstellung in Berlin, organised by Lissitzky. A 'Constructivist international' was formed, which met with Dadaists and De Stijl artists in Germany in 1922. Participants in this short-lived international included Lissitzky, Hans Richter, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. However the idea of 'art' was becoming anathema to the Russian Constructivists: the INKhUK debates of 1920-22 had culminated in the theory of Productivism propounded by Osip Brik and others, which demanded direct participation in industry and the end of easel painting. Tatlin was one of the first to answer this and attempt to transfer his talents to industrial production, with his designs for an economical stove, for workers' overalls and for furniture. The Utopian element in Constructivism was maintained by his 'letatlin', a flying machine which he worked on until the 1930s.

MAGIC REALISM

Magic realism : (magical realism), is an artistic genre in which magical elements or illogical scenarios appear in an otherwise realistic or even "normal" setting

THE TERM MAGIC REALISM WAS INITIALLY USED BY THE GERMAN ART CRITIC FRANZ ROH TO DESCRIBE PAINTING WHICH DEMONSTRATED AN ALTERED REALITY.

Tuesday, 28 October 2008

1920 - art movements

THERE WAS QUITE A LOT OF MOVEMENT IN THE ART WORLD DURING THE DECADE THAT I WAS GIVEN FROM 1920 ONWARDS, AT THE START OF THE 1920'S MODERNISM WHICH HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN UNDERATED BROKE THROUGH TO DEFINE THE AGE.
SUCH MOVEMENTS WERE DADA, SURREALISM AND BLOOMSBURY GROUP. INTERESTINGLY I HAVE DISCOVERED THAT AT THE SAME TIME AS THESE MOVEMENTSTHE 1920'S WERE KNOWN AS THE "JAZZ AGE", AND THE PUBLIC SHOWED INTEREST AND ENTHUSIASM FOR CARS, AIR TRAVEL, THE TELEPHONE AND OTHER TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES.
ART DECO WAS ALSO ESTABLISHED AROUND THESE YEARS, I FIND THIS MOVEMENT QUITE INTERESTING AS I FIND ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING INTRIGUING AND HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL.

1920's Art Movements