1 / 11

László Moholy-Nagy

László Moholy-Nagy. 1895-1946. László Moholy- Nagy had a large impact on visual arts today. A Hungarian painter and photographer, his work was shaped by a core belief that art not simply autonomous, but was for greater purpose. Self portrait 1944.

kane
Download Presentation

László Moholy-Nagy

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. László Moholy-Nagy 1895-1946

  2. László Moholy-Nagy had a large impact on visual arts today. A Hungarian painter and photographer, his work was shaped by a core belief that art not simply autonomous, but was for greater purpose. Self portrait 1944

  3. As a professor for the legendary Bauhaus (in Chicago), he worked hard to integrate technology and industry into the arts. Bauhaus was known for its versatility of artists, and László was no exception- he brought new energy and innovation to the fields of photography, typography, sculpture, painting, printmaking, and industrial design.

  4. László is credited for the term “New Vision” as it relates to photography. The basis of New Vision, is the belief that photography holds a whole new way of seeing and perceiving the world around us in which the human eye cannot.

  5. Lászlówas always experimenting with light. He created the “Light-Space Modulator” which was made up of glass and metal, with a sliding ball and perforated discs that created light effects for stage performances. It is viewed as a pioneer to kinetic sculpture. “Light-space Modulator” 1922-30

  6. “The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light” • László Moholy-Nagy Photogram 1938

  7. His major contribution to photography is a process known as “Photogram” in which light sensitive paper is exposed with objects lain on top. Gelatin silver print photogram 1939

  8. “The photogram can be called the key to photography because every good photograph must possess the same fine gradations between white and black extremes as the photogram.” -LászlóMoholy-Nagy Photogram 1922

  9. In summary,LászlóMoholy-Nagy was a visionary who was not afraid to expand beyond the borders of what was known. He was an artist, yet innovative; and the arts today are richer because of his influence.

  10. “In photography we must learn to seek, not the “picture”, not the aesthetic of tradition, but the ideal instrument of expression, the self-sufficient vehicle for education.” -László Moholy-Nagy

  11. Resources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/László_Moholy-Nagy http://mondo-blogo.blogspot.com/2011/11/get-into-laszlo-moholy-nagy.html http://designarchives.aiga.org/#/entries/%2Bid%3A12132/_/detail/relevance/asc/0/7/12132/moholy-nagyfotoplastikthe-bauhaus-years/1 http://moholy-nagy.org/about/photo-album/ http://getty.edu/art/gettyguide/

More Related