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What is Expressionism?
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Artists no longer care about what people think. The artists follow their own beliefs and are just expressing their inner beings.
Ex-"Eye in the village" was a dreamlike fantasy of the artist's life and it was surreal. |
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What is constructivism?
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The main premise of constructivism was the fact that the world got us in a mess, therefor, we must reject it-reject the past and show an interest in machines. It was about analysis and science and influenced by the theory of relativity.
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What was the philosophical basis of the functionalist movement in design?
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It;s essence was the simple, purest form.
A.)the beauty of an object was dependent on how it functioned. Beauty=function. B.)It was the ultimate abstraction. |
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What was the Bauhaus? What is the general idea behind bauhaus design.
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We should brutally reject the past and focus on the location of where these dieas were taught.
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reject the...
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Describe Le Corbusier's "Machines for living"
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Houses that he built for his clients, the rich.
-an honest architecture and an extreme rejection of all the architecture we have seen so far. |
diff from all other arch.
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What was Le Corbusier's "modular" concept?
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It used typically the human form and divided it using a rectangle.
A.)This lead to the standardization of measurement. Ex. from this, the length and width of a door was always the same length. B.)also, this contributes to the overall goal of functionalism. |
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What is the international style?
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Modernism also becomes known as the international style. You cannot tell by a picture where the building and landscape is or what it does.
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