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Constructivism (Date)

1920

Constructivism (Country)

Russia

Constructivism (Influences)

1. The new communist state


2. Futurism

Constructivism (Philosophy)

Design is a powerful political force

Constructivism (Designers)

1. El Lissitzky


2. Alexander Rodchenko

Constructivism (Characteristics)

1. red, white and black


2. dynamism


3. sans serif type


4. bars and rules


5. justified columns


6. grid alignment


7. type set reverse

De Stijl (Date)

1920

De Stijl (Country)

Holland

De Stijl (Designer)

Piet Mondrain

De Stijl (other name)

Mondrain Style

De Stijl (Influences)

1. cubism


2. constructivism

De Stijl (Philosophy)

1. Pure abstraction


2. order and harmony

De Stijl (Characteristics)

1. Thick Bars


2. Planes of Primary colors


3. Asymmetrical layout


4. squared sans serif type

Surrealism (Date)

1930

Surrealism (Country)

France

Surrealism (Influences)

1. Response to WWI


2. Dada

Surrealism (Philosophy)

1. Defy logic


2. Reality isn't what we perceive

Surrealism (founder)

1. Andre Breton


2. Salvador Dali


3. Rene Magritte


4. M.C. Escher

Surrealism (Characteristics)

Real objects in unreal situations

Art Nouveau (Date)

1890-1905

Art Nouveau (Country)

France

Art Nouveau (Influence)

1. cafe society


2. Japanese Art


3. impressionism


4. arts and crafts


5. Rococo

Art Nouveau (Philosophy)

design is a part of life

Art Nouveau (Characteristics)

1. organic line


2. fluid energy


3. female form


4. thick and thin


5. asymmetrical

Cubism (Date)

1910

Cubism (Country)

France

Cubism (Founders)

Pablo Picasso


George Braque

Cubism (Name Origin)

Art reminded of cubes

Cubism (Influences)

1. African Mask


2. Response to realism

Cubism (Philosophy)

1. require viewer to participate


2. nature is realism; design in abstraction

Cubism (Characteristics)

1. Geometric planes


2. flat form


3. overlapping elements


4. muted colors

Dada (Date)

1920

Dada (Country)

France

Dada (Founder)

Marcel Duchamp

Dada (Influences)

1. disgust within WWI


2. cubism


3. futurism

Dada (Philosophy)

1. Anti-mainstream


2. see in new ways


3. tradition and heritage inhibit creativity

Forces to see objects in new ways

Dada

Futurism (Date)

1909

Futurism (Country)

Italy

Futurism (Founders)

Filippo Marinetti

Futurism (Influences)

1. Cubism


2. Future technology

Futurism (Philosophy)

1. Challenge the norm


2. unite art and technology


3. a motion of speed


4. energy

Futurism (Characteristics)

1. Variety of fonts


2. variety of point sizes


3. Asymmetrical layout


4. dynamism


5. type forms images

Minimalism (Date)

1910

Minimalism (Country)

USA

Minimalism (Other Name)

Object Poster

Minimalism (Founder)

Lucian Bernhard

Minimalism (Influences)

response to Art Nouveau

Minimalism (Philosophy)

simplification enhances clarity

Minimalism (Characteristics)

1. Flat background


2. large product images


3. company names

Constructing the new government


Constructed from the inside out. The information is the skeleton that supports the visual appearance.

Constructivism

The Isms of Art

El Lissitzky


1914-1923

Red, White and Black (Bonus)

Red: New State Color


White: Purity


Black: Clarity

The most influential design school of all time

The Bauhaus

Founder of the Bauhaus

Walter Gropius

The Bauhaus

Started in Weimar (1919)


Moved to Dessau (1933)


(Bonus)- moved in 1924


The Bauhaus Philosophy

1. Provide foundation in all crafts


2. upgrade design consciousness


3. release creative abilities


4. unify art and technology


5. respect nature of materials


6. establish global design style


(did all but 6)

"Less is more"

Mies van der Rohe


A later director of the Bauhaus

Universal alphabet


Research of what is the easiest to read: Flush left ragged right

Herbert Bayer

7 ways to set body copy

1. flush left ragged right


2. flush right ragged left


3. centered


4. justified


5. asymmetrical


6. wraparound


7. image shape

"Beyond Realism"

surrealism

The first founder of surrealism

Andre Breton

"The only difference between the Surrealist and me is that I am a surrealist."


Persistence of memory


Destino

Salvador Dali

"This is not a pipe"

Rene Magritte

War Propaganda Posters

WWI 1917


WWII 1945


Started in France


Help war cost


War Propaganda Posters Philosophy

Propaganda relies on emotion over intellect

Icons for the New World (USA)

1. Pocahantas


2. Yankee Doodle


3. Columbia


4. Uncle Sam

Uncle Sam

Samuel Wilson (1832)


Thomas Nast rendered him


Most prevalent icon for America

"I want you for the US army"


Most well known propaganda

James Montgomery Flagg

"We can do it"

Rosie the Riveter

Commonalities of Propaganda Posters

1. powerful images


2. overlapping layers


3. worm's eye view

First Global Design Style

Art Nouveau

First multimedia design style


thick and thin borders

Arnold Bocklin Font

Father of Modern Poster

Jules Cheret

Moulin Rouge

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

the founder in 1895 of " La Maison de l'Art Nouveau " in Paris


it was his art gallery and exhibition hall that gave its name to the famous artistic Style Art Nouveau.

Samuel Bing's Gallery

Subway entrances

Hector Guimard

Furniture makers


steam wood to bend it


bentwood

Thonet Brothers

Found American Dada Movement

Man Ray

Furniture that is steamed to bend

bentwood

pasted paper

collage


diagonal lines create more life than straight

dynamism

when you take an object out of its normal context you force the viewer to think in new ways

readymades

most remembered for his contributions to the French Art Nouveau movement at the turn of the century

Alphonse Mucha

the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining two or more photographs into an illusion of an unreal subject. Sometimes the resulting composite image is photographed so that a final image may appear as a seamless photographic print

photomontage

important; famous


projecting from something; protuberant

Prominent

founding member of Köln Dada; surrealist pioneer

Max Ernst

one of America's most beloved artists working during the "Golden Age of American Illustration." He achieved incredible artistic renown and critical acclaim during his lifetime and has continued to interest new audiences ever since

Maxfield Parrish

the leading English illustrator of the 1890s and, after Oscar Wilde, the outstanding figure in the Aestheticism movement

Aubrey Beardsley

information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

Propaganda