Exam 1 Flashcards
43 Cards in this Set
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Style
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manner of expression
distinctive quality/form/type
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Haptic
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vision tactile perception
close-range vision
incorporating sense of touch
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Optic
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what the eye sees in 3D perspective
long-range vision
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Kuntswollen
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"an inner necessity"
Will to Art/Form
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Typisierung (Typification)
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typical form; prototypes that can be mass produced
form follows function
mass production entails standardization
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Type-Object
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Le Corbusier's translation of Typisierung
refers to prototypes for mass production
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German Werkbund
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German association of artists, architects, designers and industrialists
state sponsored effort to integrate crafts w/techniques of industrial mass-production
search for cultural identity
want to put Germany at forefront of the world export (competition w/England, France, U.S.)
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Gesamptkunstwerk
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Total Work of Art
designed everything from furniture to clothes
Wagner
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Classic vs. Modern Thought
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Classic Thought
modern arch is progress
knowledge dependent on a system that explains the world as it appears
Modern Thought
conceives world as evolving organic structure
changes over time (due to hidden factors that may exist0
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Revivalism
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to revive an existing historical style of architecture
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Eclecticism
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putting different parts of different styles together
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Historic Preservation
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a movement that protects these structures from the past
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Industrial Revolution
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new material > new method > new form of problems
new patrons > new types of buildings > new form & problems
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Gottfried Semper
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German architect/professor, art critic (1803-1879)
designed Canada section of 1851 Great Exhibition (Crystal Palace, London)
Der Stil (The Style), 1860-63
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Alois Riegl
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Austrian art historian
Late Roman Art Industry (1901)
key concept of the book: Kuntswollen (Will to Form)
analysis of form, ornament
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Henry van de Velde
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Art Nouveau (Jugendstil)
sensation & pure form
Oak Chair (1896)
Reception Dress (1902)
Havana Cigar Shop, Vienna (1899)
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Peter Behrens
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German architect/designer
Posters for AEG (1907)
AEG Turbine Factory, Berlin (1908-09)
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Kanto Earthquake
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(1923) the Issue of Engineering, Art, Nat'l Identity
destroyed 60% of homes/industries
time of mass murdering of Koreans due to rumors (arson, robbery, poisoning wells)
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Teikan Style
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"Imperial Crown Style"
Eastern style that expresses Japanese spirit/taste
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Paul Cezanne
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Portrait of Gustav Geoffroy (1895)
Man w/Arms Crossed (1899)
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De Stijl
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the style, experimental
art was plastic & dynamic not symmetrical
focused on straight lines, red/white/blue
foreground/background was perspectival construction
planes, isometric projection
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Space-Time in Arch
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tied to problem of representation
focused on pure elements of painting
straight lines, red/white/blue
(like Italian Futurists) art was plastic & dynamic
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Theo van Doesburg & Cor van Eestereen
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Counter-Constructions of the Hotel Particuliere (1923)
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Umberto Boccioni
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Development of a Bottle in Space (1913)
Italian Futurism
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Gerrit Rietveld
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Schroder House (1924)
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Mies van der Rohe
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German Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain (1929)
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Kasimir Malevich
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0.1 Exhibition (1915); Exhibition of Supremacist Paintings
Black Square (1915)
Two Squares (1915)
Supremacist Composition (1916)
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El Lissitzky
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Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (1919)
Lenin Tribune (1920)
Proun (1923)
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German Expressionism
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reaction against Art Nouveau
abstract, looking in (pathos)
empathy & abstraction
inject art w/spiritual values using color
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Synaesthesia
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Hearing something you see visually
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Bauhaus
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Germany (1925)
new type of craft/fine art school 1919-33
good design in keeping w/industrial age
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Bauhaus Curriculum
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Werklehre: instruction in crafts
Formlehre: preliminary course/instruction in form problems
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Russian Revolution
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formation of Soviet Union
2 revolutions that occurred against backdrop of WWI
inspired artists to create radically new visual language for new society
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Agit-Prop
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agitation propaganda
gave strong visual identity to socialist ideas
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Russian Constructivism
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form follows function
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Mosei Ginsburg
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Apartment Housing Study (c. 1928) Section, Constructivism
Narkomfin Housing, Moscow, Russia (1928)
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Konstantin Melnikov
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Rusakov Worker's Club, Moscow, 1927
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Wassily Kandinsky
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Composition VIII, 1923
"expression of an inner feeling"
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Russian Suprematism
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pure feeling
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Raumplan
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Adolf Loos
room space plan
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Purism
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painting style - Le Corbusier & Amadee Ozenfant in the manifesto After Cubism
more orthogonal, foreground & background
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Five Points of Architecture
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roof garden
supports/columns
free facade
free plan
long horizontal strip windows
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Walter Gropius
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Fagus Shoe Factory
Werkbund Pavilion
Sommerfeld House
Bauhaus
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