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"Olly and Dolly Sisters," László Moholy-Nagy, 1925.
Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was a Hungarian-born painter and photographer of the Bauhaus and Constructivist schools, who embraced photography as an artistic medium and sought to use it as an art form, rather than just a documentary technology.
The Dolly Sisters were Hungarian-born twins Rosie (1892-1970) and Jenny (1892-1941) who were popular dancers and silent film actresses in the 1920s, famed for their dancing and flamboyant, scandalous lifestyles. While the photograph appears to be one of them, it hints at both with the placement of one to one side and the one black circle hanging in space on the other.
Exactly what he was getting at with this work is anyone's guess, although it eerily prefigures how Jenny would die by suicide in her 40s. However, it's an arresting image, and a great demonstration of how Moholy-Nagy believed that technology and industry can be incorporated into art. He later did a number of innovative installations involving electronics and other technology.
From the Getty Museum.
#Art #Photography #Bauhaus #Constructivism #LaszloMoholyNagy #DollySisters
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Dziś przypada rocznica urodzin László Moholy-Nagyego (1895–1946) — węgierskiego malarza, fotografa i teoretyka sztuki, związanego z Bauhausem. Twórca fotogramów, rzeźby kinetycznej i pionier sztuki konceptualnej. #LaszloMoholyNagy (fot. Wikipedia)
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"7 A.M. (New Year's Morning)," László Moholy-Nagy, c. 1930.
Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was a Hungarian photographer and painter. He was a professor of the Bauhaus school and was heavily influenced by Constructivism and was a passionate advocate of incorporating technology and industry in the arts.
He was also a writer, playwright, and designer; with Alexander Korda, he co-created the special effects for the sci-fi classic THINGS TO COME in 1936. Although Hungarian-born, he worked mostly in Germany until 1933, when he fled the Nazi regime, going first to the Netherlands, then England, and finally to the US, where he founded the School of Design in Chicago, now part of the Illinois Institute of Technology. He became a U.S. citizen shortly before his passing from leukemia.
This photograph is interesting; it beautifully illustrates a quiet morning of empty streets, but also functions as a modernist work of assorted shapes.
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
#Art #Bauhaus #Photography #LaszloMoholyNagy #Modernism #HappyNewYear
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Go and see the actual sculpture/machine if you are in Cambridge MA:
https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/299819
#LászlóMoholyNagy #Bauhaus #LightSpaceModulator #HarvardArtMuseums
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Sil 2 by László Moholy-Nagy, 1933 #guggenheimart #laszlomoholynagy https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/2986
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Tp 2 by László Moholy-Nagy, 1930 #laszlomoholynagy #guggenheim https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/2984
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A II (Construction A II) by László Moholy-Nagy, 1924 #laszlomoholynagy #guggenheimmuseum https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/2979
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Composition by László Moholy-Nagy, 1927 #guggenheim #laszlomoholynagy https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/2982
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CH BEATA I by László Moholy-Nagy, 1939 #laszlomoholynagy #guggenheimart https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/2988