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Working briefly as the head of the metal shop during the Bauhaus’s time in Dessau, this artist’s work exemplifies the institutes style and is best known for her design of a silver teapot and various lamp fixtures, the Kandem Bedside Table Lamp for example.
Who is Marianne Brandt?
He argues that empathy with the world and with other humans leads to naturalistic representation (or academic art).
Who is Wilhelm Worringer?
He argued that ornament was a form of crime, and if you have a tattoo, it's just a matter of time before you become a criminal.
Who is Adolf Loos?
Artists used this small scaled lens based technology as early as the 17th century to trace out images of what they saw before them.
What is a camera lucida?
This art historian explained that Surrealism often portrayed women as muses who inspired male artists instead of recognizing them as independent creators.
Who is Whitney Chadwick?
This group of painters wanted to study the effects of light and atmosphere, and are named after a specific painting.
This writer and designer believed industrial machinery created “utilitarian ugliness” and argued that beauty should remain part of everyday labour and ordinary objects rather than mass industrial production.
Who is William Morris?
This architectural movement emphasized volume over mass, regularity over symmetry, and rejected applied ornament in favour of structural clarity and modern materials.
The International Style
The name for a photographic technology using a copper plate coated in silver, developed after Nicéphore Niépce's first tests, and named after its creator.
What is a daguerreotype?
This building was created by William Morris in collaboration with Philip Webb to mimic a Gothic architecture style, and Morris lived there!
What is Red House?
She won the Sobey Art Award in 2006, and used drawing to describe everyday life and commodities in the North.
Developed largely by Arthur J. Nash, and copyrighted by Tiffany and Co, this style of glass achieves its characteristic iridencence through the use of treating the hot glass with metallic oxides and is a staple of Art Nouveau architecture
What is Favrile Glass?
A Bauhaus instructor that pushed the school towards industrial design and new technologies and came from a Constructivist background.
Who was Moholy-Nagy?
An instructor of the Vorkurs who believed in the superiority of machine design.
Who is Laszlo Moholy-Nagy?
She argues that respecting the natural limitations of materials and techniques leads to stronger artistic and functional design.
Who is Anni Albers?
Who is Herr Coppelius / Coppelius?
The Nazis referred to this book to rationalize the ideas of the "Degenerate Art" exhibition.
What is "Kunst und Rasse"?
This style of architecture uses cast concrete, left raw and textured to decorative effect.
What is Brutalism?
It’s rooted in the ground and extends upwards to fully support the house’s weight, allowing for the building to have “glass curtains” that make it appear open and bright.
What are pilotis?
A form of expression based on the power and belief of a superior reality of dream
What is Surrealism?
He made odd drawings and images of stems sprouting "flowers" shaped like human faces.
Who is Odilon Redon?
He wrote "By giving what is common a deeper meaning, what is everyday, a mysterious aspect, what is known the dignity of the unknown, what is finite, the appearance of infinity, I romanticize it.”
Who is Novalis?
What is repoussoir?
He argued that machinery was used merely as a "multiplied tool" to help hand-labour rather than a "supplanter" of it.
Who is William Morris?
He practiced Cubism, Futurism, and Dada, and might have been responsible for a certain urinal.
Who is Marcel Duchamp?