Week 4

24th MARCH 2011
EARLY MODERNISM 1910 - 1935

-Avante garde - the front line, bravery of trying something new.

MOVEMENTS

• bauhaus
• constructivism
• dada
• de styl (poster art)
• expressionism
• heroic realism
• new typography
• surrealism
• vorticism
• plakstil

*Modernists were in love with geometry and despised ornament.

[PIA MONDRIAN]

*Expressionists - concerned about human connection, deep empathy, for poor social outcasts.


h/w look up the first photomontages JOHN HEARTFIELD


*Bauhaus influenced Constructivism and vice-versa 
- tilted axis
-colour scheme




***I HAD TO LEAVE HALF WAY THROUGH THE CLASS AS I HAD TO CATCH A PLANE TO QUEENSLAND

JOHN HEARTFIELD

John Heartfield (19 June 1891, Berlin – 26 April 1968, East Berlin) is the anglicized name of the German photomontage artist Helmut Herzfeld. He chose to call himself Heartfield in 1916, to criticize the rabid nationalism and anti-British sentiment prevalent in Germany during World War I.  [Wikipedia ]