Typography Portrait – Research

Research Works for Project 1

Artist Research

Dada is an art movement during war times. It a reaction to the chaos what was happening then. Dada is influenced by ideas and innovations from Cubism, Futurism (play w mediums), Constructivism and Expressionism (style with personal emotions).

Well known Dadaist/Surrealism:

Hannah Hoch

She was German Dada artist best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage.

I like her layering and collage style as she uses a lot of metaphoric imagery and went out of the norm to use actual photographs. I also like how weird her works turned out looking and that was how it captures my attention. Example, in the image shown below.

Hans Arp in German. Jean Arp in French.

Arp made “chance collages” such as this one: by tearing paper into pieces, dropping them onto a larger sheet, and pasting each scrap wherever it happened to fall. Arp and other Dadaists turned to chance as an antidote. Also known as automatism. Using torn and pasted paper. Art works below.

Russian constructivist posters:

Constructivist themes are also quite minimal, where the artwork is broken down to its most basic elements.

They have massive propaganda energy and are committed to complete abstraction with a devotion to modernity themes are often geometric, experimental and rarely emotional.

Others:

El Lissitzky

He developed visual ideas about balance, space, and form in his paintings, which became the basis for his graphic design and architecture. Example right above.

Kasimir Malevich

Founded a new painting style called suprematism which rejected pictorial content in favour of pure geometric form and colour. He believed the expressive qualities of a painting developed from the intuitive organization of these elemental forms and colours.

Alexander Rodchenko

He experimented with overprinting, typography, and photomontage as he sought to innovate an illustration technique appropriate for the twentieth century.

Some of the techniques he explored coincided with developments in cinema, such as simultaneous action, superimposing images, extreme close-ups, and rhythmically repeating an image. Examples below.