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