Tuesday, April 18, 2023

DADA + Neue Typographie (Laszlo Moholy-Nagy)

Love Your Neighbor, (1925)

Jealousy, (1927)

What's unique to Moholy-Nagy is his inventiveness. Drawing on collage, photo, and a minimalist use of geometry,  Moholy-Nagy creates a personal vocabulary which is abstract, functional with a touch of uitopianism,

To understand where he's coming from look at his art

 yellow circle, 1921

Moholy-Nagy embraced abstraction constructivism in the 1920s (especially the work of El Lissitzky).

1. go abstract,
2. embrace utopian ideals,
3. avoid everything personal,
4. be symmetrically asymmetrical