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DES•201 Art History

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A New Language of Form

Constructivism, De Stijl, and the Bauhaus, c. 1914–1950

  1. Supremetism and Constructivism
    1. Kasimir Malevich
    2. Vladimir Tatlin
    3. El Lissitzky
    4. Alexander Rodchenko
    5. Gustav Klutsis
    6. The Steinberg Brothers
    7. Mikhail Dlugach
  2. Neo-Plasticism and De Stijl
    1. Piet Mondrian
    2. Theo van Doesburg
    3. Gerrit Rietveld
  3. Constructivism & De Stijl spread
    1. Henryk Berlewi
    2. Ladislav Sutnar
  4. The Bauhaus
    1. Walter Gropius and the Origins
    2. Lyonel Feininger, Kandinsky & Klee
    3. The De Stijl / Constructivist influence
    4. Laslo Moholy-Nagy
    5. Herbert Bayer
    6. The Bauhaus in Dessau
    7. Innovations
  5. The New Typography & the International Style
    1. Jan Tschichold
    2. Piet Zwart
    3. Herbert Matter
    4. Theo Ballmer, Max Bill, Anton Stankowski, Armin Hoffman, and Joseph Müller-Brockman
    5. Le Corbusier
    6. Frank Lloyd Wright

Supremitist Composition: Airplane Flying by Malevich

Proun

Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow by Mondrian

Henry van de Velde

Weimar Academy of Fine Art

The Bauhaus building in Dessau by Gropius

"Elementare Typographie"

Glass skyscraper by van der Rohe

Villa Savoye by le Corbusier

Falling Water by Wright