The theme of disturbing the universe of expectations was evident in the photographs of László Moholy-Nagy, which expressed the same New Vision. If Moholy-Nagy redefined photography he did so from the inside out. The Eiffel Tower the pinnacle and the predictor of...
The experiments of Moholy-Nagy encompassed what he termed an “entire field of optical expression,” combining painting, which was traditional, photography which was industrial, and film, which was characterized by moving images. In one of the early books, Painting,...
László Moholy-Nagy returned to one of the first manifestations of “writing with light” in his “photograms,” a term he coined, in which chemicals and light interact upon a support. The result of the strange ghost like prints captured and frozen by light was what he...
The wife of the designer, László Moholy-Nagy, Lucia, photographed the engineer-artist at the Bauhaus in the garments of a worker, marking his identification, not with artists, but with engineers. In the new Soviet Union, art was “dead,” the artist ceased to exist and...
By the early 1920s, László Moholy-Nagy began to find his own voice and became one of the most eloquent inventors of new art for a modern age. Digesting the artistic ideas of the post-war decade, he absorbed the penchant for the machine emerging in Berlin with the...
One of the most interesting assemblages to come out of the infamous 1920 Dada Messe in Berlin was a strange headless figure, whose graceful lines recall Greek bronze statues of young gods and victorious athletes. This black mannequin referenced the Russian artist,...
