General Election 2010: The history of British democracy. Modernism in design. Loos Haus, Vienna. 1 of 3 Description Change this The Looshaus in Vienna (also known as the Goldman & Salatsch Building) is regarded as one of the most important structures built in the "Wiener Moderne".
The building marks the rejection of historicism, as well as the ornaments used by the Wiener Secession. its appearance shocked Vienna's citizens, since their overall taste was still very much historically oriented. Because of the lack of ornaments on the façade, people called it the 'house without eyebrows'. History In 1909, the owners of Goldman & Salatsch, Leopold Goldman and Emanuel Aufricht, arranged an architecture competition, but broke it off to award the commission to Adolf Loos who refused to take part in it. Architecture Despite its aesthetic functionalism, the building is not a simple functional buildings - especially in the materials. The Tuscan columns on the street level - intended as an allusion to the portico of St. Afterlife Design Zone Looshaus Comments. Homes - Design - Art nouveau period style.
William Morris and the Art of Printing. Illustration: Kelmscott Press logo, 1890s.
Artwork of the Day: Peter Behrens' "The Kiss" Art HistoryPublished:February 28, 2011Ola Robbins This 1898 woodcut by German artist Peter Behrens, “The Kiss,” was published in the arts and literary magazine Pan, printed in Berlin at the turn of the 20th century.
Pan was largely responsible for popularizing the Jugendstil (or German Art Nouveau) movement. In this iconic colored woodcut, Behrens depicts two lovers engaging in a kiss, with sinuous locks of hair framing their faces. Such undulating lines were recurrent motifs in the Art Nouveau movement, as they refer to the ever-present and sometimes irrational movement within nature. SP91.9.2.Coleman. The Bauhaus Art Movement. We think of white walls, clean lines and the use of glass and concrete as modern and contemporary ideas.
And they are, except that those same ideas have been around for nearly a century now thanks to the unique influence of the Bauhaus school of design, art and architecture... The Bauhaus was founded in Weimar, Germany in 1919 by architect, Walter Gropius with the aim of bridging the gap between art, design and industry and unifying all three. It was a school where students received theoretical and practical training in all of the fine arts -ceramics, murals, stained glass, typography, metalwork, book binding, stone sculpture and furniture-making – and learned to combine these fine art skills with new technologies to design and manufacture products that were both beautiful and practical.
Alexander Rodchenko: Pictures and pain. ALEXANDER RODCHENKO was a well-known Moscow painter when, at the age of 33 in 1924, he took up photography.
Within a year his dramatic manipulations of perspective were attracting international notice. By 1928 Alfred H. Barr, soon to become director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, was paying him a visit. Taking it on the chinAlexander Rodchenko Rodchenko's techniques were so strikingly original they became synonymous with his name. How We Might Live: The Vision of William Morris. Fondation Le Corbusier ',myPageTitle,'
When a problem really preoccupies us we carry it about with us.
And then one day we suddenly hit on the solution, and often find its confirmation turning the next street corner. Thus the proportions of the huge scaffolding in front of the Bon Marché confirmed my theory of the scale that urban buildings ought to embody in the future. It seems clear that buildings should be set back further and further from the street, that the open spaces so created should be made larger and larger ; and that we should build upwards to two or three times the existing height-limit. Were this the case the present height of rooms in ordinary flats, which architectural practice has fixed at 9-12 feet, could be sensibly increased. Future groundplans will postulate fresh architectural conditions which will lead to the adoption of a new worm of height ; probable 18-22 feet. The "Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau" at the Paris Exposition des Arts Décoratifs of 1925 was a signal triumph over difficulties.
“Home” by Job Wouters. Love this typographic mural at the Walker Art Center by Job Wouters, aka Letman.
William morris books. Marian Bantjes. I Wonder by Marian Bantjes 208 pages Hard cover 15.5 cm × 24cm (approx. 6 × 9½ inches) Printed in full colour plus gold throughout.
List price: £19.95 / $40 Release date: October, 2010 Published in the UK by Thames & Hudson, ISBN 978-0-500-51529-7Published in the USA by The Monacelli Press, ISBN 978-1580932967 I spent 15 months writing, illustrating and designing this book. It’s a gorgeous hardcover, with gold and silver foils on a satin cloth, with gilded page edges. Every single illustration is new, created for the book, and the content is not about my work (i.e. not a monograph), but instead combines graphic art with the written word, and lends my own contemplative but frequently amused voice to my observations of the world.