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Thesis Statements

1. Herbert Bayer displays aspects of modernism in his cover for Bauhaus magzine in 1928 by combining photography, typography, and simple geometric forms.

2. Joost Schmidt's Bauhaus exhibition poster enforces modernism with the self-reflexive use of lithography and simplification of forms.

3. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy used the combination of text, photography, and visual planes to create the poster for tires in 1923, which illustrated the combination of techniques to simplify design.

  Thesis statement

 1) In the 1927 poster Etoile Du Nord,  by A. M. Cassandre, the artist presents the viewer with a positive aspect of machinery and speed. It is a message of hope and progress  conveyed by means of
modernistic design concepts: reduction of form and bold typeface.  

Thesis Statements

1. Joseph Morse’s Multicolored woodcut poster is a great example of modernism due to it’s ability to attain true representation as well.

2. W.J Morgan’s Macbeth Poster represents modernism through it’s use of montage.

3. Morris Pere et Fil’s “Cirque d’hiver” is not modernistic due to it’s  inability to attain true representation.

Thesis Statements

1. Fortunato Depero’s page from Depero futurista is a good example of modernist work because of its angular shapes, sans-serif type, and unique layout.
   
2. John Heartfield’s anti-Nazi propaganda poster, “Adolf, the Superman: Swallows gold and talks tin,” is modernist because of its simplification, san-serif type, and use of montage.
   
3. Lucian Bernhard’s trademark for Manoli cigarettes is a good example of modernist graphic design because of its sans-serif type and extreme simplification.

Redesigning stop signs

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Possible Thesis

1. How does Neville Brody incorporate his passion for Punk Rock to create Modernistic works with references to Dadaism and Pop Art.

2. David Carson has become an experimental typographer and innovative magazine designer how is this true in regard to Barnard.

3. Futurism, Fauvism, Cubism paved the way for Graphic design, Milton Glaser's famous "I love NY" logo was influenced by these styles.

Thesis Statements

1. Aleksandr Rodchenko's advertisement "Dummy" shows themes of modernism through its self conscious design and a sense of ambiguity that leaves the viewer guessing the nature of the ad.

2. In Cassandre's poster for the Paris newspaper, "L'Intransigeant" the use of a dynamic composition made up of strong lines and reduced shapes illustrate the principles of modernism in graphic design.

3. Berthold Loffler's poster for a theater and cabaretin 1907 shows qualities of modernism in its use of flat color and simple outline to illustrate an idea simply and efficiently.

David E. Peterson 3 Thesis Statements

1. El Lissitzky’s cover and page from Destil is a great example of the 5 main points of modernism in Graphic Design.

2. Kurt Schwitters Pages from Merz 11 really illustrates the use of composition in modern Graphic Design.

3. In modern Graphic Design, the bellwether poster byE. Mcknight Kauffer, the Daliy Herald is one the best examples of geometric abstraction and futurism.

Thesis Statement

1. Fernand Leger “The City” in the paintings reduced subject matter to compositions of made up of colorful shapes. He also fragments his subjects and uses letterforms to form stylistic representations of his visual experience.

2. El Lissitzky “Beat the white with the Red Wedge” uses simple shapes to convey his message instead of words and pictures in the conventional arrangement.

3. Pictorial Modernism: Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, Normandie uses simple illusion and type to suggest a massage easy for the consumers to understand.

-My Tran

Thesis Statements

E. McKnight Kauffer's poster for the London Underground,1924, achieves the ideals of modernism in the way Kauffer is able to achieve a visual representation with landscape subject by communicating that representation with the use of line, shape, and color.

Joseph Binder's, poster for the Vienna Music and Theater Festival, 1924, is a good example of modernism in its representation of natural images reduced to basic forms and flat geometric shapes.

-Zach Bale

Thesis Statements - D'Ann Potts

1.)  Kurt Schwitters’, cut and paste designs exemplifies modernism through his selective color schemes, patterns, exposure of words and font variation.

2.)Fortunato Depero, had a way of representing modernism with his cubist technique that can be seen through his July 1930, Vanity Fair Cover.

3.) not sure???

Topics
Similarities and differences between European and American Modernism.
Picasso, cubism and African influences.
Similarities and differences between cubism,futurism and Bauhaus.

3 Thesis statement ideas

Modernism represented dissatisfaction with the current state of art and design and was an attempt to more distinctly and realistically represent the world while fighting things like commercialization.

Marcel Duchamp's painting Nude Descending a Staircase is highly indicative of not only the reduced aesthetic of modernism, but the broken down subject matter as well.

The typographic works of Giovanni Papini and Filippo Marinetti used a modernist aesthetic to convey just as much meaning with the layout of the print as with the words themselves.

Thesis statement for Modernism

El Lissitzky, cover of Zapisky poeta, utilized montage and photo-montage for communications messages.

Form follows function could be seen in Gerd Arntz and Otto Neurath’s “Geburten und Sterbefalle in Wein” chart. This functional and decorative design shows the quality of modernism and contributes in our daily life.

Map for the London Underground also plays an important role in modern society, Henry C. Beck uses geographic lines, bright colors. An informational design in style of modernism, begins the first map creation.

Thesis Statements Nusrat Alam

Herbert Matter’s poster for the Swiss Tourist Board creates a modern visual language through the use of montage, ambiguity, and also embodies a strong sense of simplicity through the use of simple shapes and composition.

Alexander Rodchenko's poster URSS exemplifies the major ideas behind modernism which are aesthetic self-reflexiveness, montage, and the rejection of ornament, together these elements create a beautiful modern design in Rodchenko's piece.

Jan Tschichold’s forward thinking play on type can be seen in the film poster for  Phoebus Palace, which is a great example of modernist work that is still being mimicked today, because Tschichold creates a beautiful and interesting balance with simple shapes and a simple idea. 

Modernism Paper Topics - cdc

Massimo Vignelli’s 1966 design for the New York City Subway map used the graphic simplicity of modernism to clearly communicate the layout of the transit system, ironically though, this oversimplification of the design was rejected by many New Yorkers as difficult to understand.

Alvin Lustig created a book cover design for Anatomy for Interior Designers: Plus How to Talk to a Client that used whimsically decorative typefaces contrasted with strong modernist themes of simplicity, montage, and aesthetic self-reflexivity.

As part of a series for the Rural Electrification Administration, Lester Beall designed a campaign of posters that combined the realistic representation possible in photography with strong graphic language through the use of montage and paradox.

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Thesis statements - Project #1 Modernism in Graphic Designby Katia Lord

1. Herb Lubalin self portrait favours a clean and simple graphic, a minimalistic approach but very clear in it’s function. This piece is a classic example of American Modernism

2. The Story of Two Squares by El Lissitzky's, 1920 is a powerful demonstration that art could be used as a graphic means of communication. This radical new way of organizing typography on a page and relating it to visual images is a sure sign of Modernism.

3. The unconventional use of typography by Filippo Marinetti, "Montage + Vallate + Strade x Joffre", 1915, produces a uncertain meaning. This piece uses great examples of paradox and other European Modernism themes.

Spirited Calligraphy: texts, marks, and meanings

OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday October 7, 6-8pm

SYMPOSIUM: Calligraphy in Action
October 8, 11:00 am-2:00 pm, Alumni Hall
30 Courtland Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30303
Speakers: Kevin Hsieh, Styles and Forms of the Chinese Texts
Craig Drennen, The East/West FusionCalligraphy Performance:
Calligraphy Performance: Tsai Yu-Lung, Kim Jue Whe, Michiko Hamasaki, Sogen Hirano
Moderator: Junco Sato Pollack

Periodic Table of Typefaces -click on image to view the whole thing

Not sure if everyone has seen this, thought it was cool. :)

Top Three Topics Tuesday Aug 31st class

Top Three Topics Tuesday Aug 31st class

1.)  Gutenburg Press
2.)  Books becoming more Seculair
3.)  Stamps (?) changing from wood to metal

D'Ann Potts
Pam Barba
Megan Moore
Jon Stachewicz

The Faces of America: Early Photographic Portraits from the Collections of George and Susan Whitey. Exceptional and rare images from the dawn of photography cover the birth and growth of the medium through nearly three decades,including daguerreotypes and ambrotypes,1840-1865.

October 9, 2010 - January 29, 2011
Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center
Wednesday - Saturday
10:00am -5:00pm
Free to the public
404.814.4000

Art History Club needs a logo: Oct 1 deadline

The undergraduate Art History Student League is looking for a new logo. We are very excited about the involvement of GSU art students with AHSL - not just Art History students. Please let me know if you can help us out! The deadline for the contest is October 1st, and all submissions are to be sent to ahsl website.
Ciara Sames, Art History Student League President

Art History Club needs a logo: Oct 1 deadline

The undergraduate Art History Student League is looking for a new logo. We are very excited about the involvement of GSU art students with AHSL - not just Art History students. Please let me know if you can help us out! The deadline for the contest is October 1st, and all submissions are to be sent to ahsl website.
Ciara Sames, Art History Student League President

three main ideas

from Vince, Tyler, and Christian

-in addition to standardization of typeface, the printing press standardized the process, thus becoming a precursor to the industrial revolution.
- the proliferation of information through text via the printing press proved to some that the church was no longer the sole place for dissemination of information. this ushered in an era of secularism in both literature and art.
- text and language became consistent for different regions, and more easily identifiable to belonging to different groups.

3 Main Lecture Ideas

(From Katia Lord, David Peterson, Gabriel Etienne. I am not sure of our 4th member's name.)

1. The invention of the printing press along with the Gutenberg Bible, which is the first great example of standardization in type.

2. The invention of printing press instigated the Industrial Revolution and the rise of Secularism.

3. The rise of Secularism fostered the Protestant Reformation

Our Group - Deji Adako, Colette Ellar, Wendy Goff and Amy Hallett

Major Lecture Points:

The development of typographic printing by Johann Gutenberg

The move from woodblock printing to metal plates

The use of oil based ink

Standardization of type molds

More people get to read and read the same thing

Fostered the Protestant Reformation

Standardized language an national identity