ART 1001 Lecture : Essential Works Lectures 21 And 22
Document Summary
George grosz, pillars of society, 1926, oil o/canvas: pillars of weimar society: the capitalist, the officer, the judge, and the military. Otto dix, der krieg (the war), 1929-1932, oil and tempera o/wood. Another wwi veteran trying to come to terms with war experience. Wwi the first fully mechanized war in human history. Otto dix, prager strasse (prague street), oil and collage o/canvas, 1920. Work completes the transition towards abstract art. Mondrian: attempt to create an equilibrium of opposites . Piet mondrian, composition in red, blue, and yellow, 1930, oil o/canvas. Rietveld a close collaborator of mondrian, one of the founders of the de stijl movement. Stylistic symbiosis of mondrian"sneo-plasticism: white cube as basic building block; Aesthetic principle consistent with mondrian"s paintings or rietveld"s architecture. The bauhaus in germany: collaboration between art and industry. Walter gropius, shop block, the bauhaus, dessau, 1925-1926. Bauhaus=name of a very influential school of art and design founded in germany after.
