Secessionist.... ? vs Loos ?

Hi, today I would like to share my understanding of Adolf Loos’s case. Urmph, wait... how about the Secessionist? What the Loos and Secessionist contribute in art and design? What is the impact of these two to the art movement today?

From my understanding about the Loos’s movement, there is a little doubt about it. It gives many impact to the modern architect and artists. Thank toLoos because he had influenced his influenced in industrial buildings, clothing and households furnishing. Credit to Loos because many European architect had his influence in their architecture works, the style..such as Frank Lloyd Wright. As we know that he is one of the important pioneers of modern architecture early-20th century. He also opposed the decorative art Nouveau movement and he also culminated in a short essay with title ‘Ornament and Crime’. In this essay, he said that a sign of spiritual strength shows in the lack of ornament in architecture. It was a criminal and not for abstract moral seasons because of the wasted materials in modern industrial civilization. The ornament is no longer an important manifestation of culture because the workers could not be paid fair price with their labour.


The Loos's works and architecture buildings :

   

Moreover, the Loos were also contribute to the Industrial Design field because he expressive his works using natural materials such as manipulated classical materials into a composition of visual patterns like marbles, wood, mirror and onyx. It gives sporadic, personal and not always very serious in tone.

I also read an essay briefly describe about Adolf Loos. It says here,

" There is little doubt that Adolf Loos had a profound impact on many modernist architects and artists. For example, many European architects were particularly influenced by his style and theory. This can be seen in that Frank Lloyd Wright "....credited Loos with doing for European architecture what Wright was doing in the United States".

However, there were many criticisms and objected to his stark and austere style because all his style and theories generally can be found in the modernist movement.

Unlike the secessionist, this kind of movement is more towards to political and they describe themselves as separatist independence, separatist independence or describe as decolonization movement. The secessionist brings another form of modernism visual arts because it combined together the Symbolist, Modernists, Stylists and Naturalists. The chairman was Gustav Klimt and this movement was actually representing younger generation protest and against the traditional art. In secessionist they were no longer connected with more realistic naturalists. In the late Art Nouveau, they represent the high-point in the decorative phase.


The Klimt's works andpaintings :

  

The secessionist also state a phrase, 

“To every age its art and to art its freedom”.

In secessionist too they want to create a new style which nothing owed by the traditional or historical influence. All the art works featured highly decorative works in the late Art Nouveau.

Urmph . Art Nouveau . Simple Introduction before begin .

Urmph . what should I describe for the Art Nouveau. It can be defined more than a mere style, there barriers between the fine art and applied art. It breaks all the classical times because they were more redefine the meaning and nature of artworks. The art Nouveau described as New Art because it is new and known as revolutionary. This style covered in many art forms such as glassware, furniture, architecture, pottery, graphic design, jewelry, textiles and painting.

Example of Art Nouveau painting - The Gustav Klimt.

As far from the artworks created in this movement, all of them can be described dramatic, all the organic shapes have been stylized and more curving lines. Most of them are taken from nature and the stylized in abstract. The High Victorian style, the Japanese and Rococo art inspired by the art nouveau. In this movement, the artist should not overlook at any everyday object and no matter how utilitarian it might be. They making people’s lives better. One of the famous architect and design is Rennie Mackintosh which is an architect and furniture designer. The American designer Louis Comfort Tiffany is a jewelry designer who also a major Art Nouveau.

"Mackintosh Chairs"

Industrialised, mass-produced items started to gain popularity. Along with the Industrial Revolution, Asian style and emerging modernist ideas also influenced Mackintosh's designs. When the Japanese isolationist regime softened, shipyards building at the River Clyde were exposed to Japanese navy and training engineers; Glasgow’s link with the eastern country became particularly close. Japanese design became more accessible and gained great popularity. This style was admired by Mackintosh because of: its restraint and economy of means rather than ostentatious accumulation; its simple forms and natural materials rather than elaboration and artifice; the use of texture and light and shadow rather than pattern and ornament.

I love all art, but art nouveau holds a special place in my heart. I studied about it in college and have been visiting as many exhibits as I can get to. I've even experimented making my own piece of art nouveau! But nothing can be like Charles Rennie Mackintosh's art nouveau paintings, which are, by far, my favorites.

I encountered his watercolor paintings in an art exhibit in his native Scotland and was immediately struck by the elegance of his work and the unique way he portrayed nature. It's actually why I admire art nouveau so much. You see an image, like a simple flower, but the artist makes it look so sophisticated. I would love to own one of his pieces one day for my home.

Rose and Tear Drop fabric 1923

Moreover, I am a fan of art deco and art nouveau metalwork in architecture. I like the stylized look of the art forms, especially art deco. There is an old supper club in the Biltmore district of Phoenix that has always caught my eye. The building has those prominent art deco arches that are accentuated with those long straight lines that swoop into geometric curves. The windows and the rest of the building’s design matches to the style perfectly.

Main Representatives

Art Nouveau in Britain Walter Crane Arthur Mackmurdo Arthur Lasenby Liberty Charles Ashbee Aubrey Beardsley Charles Rennie Mackintosh Art Nouveau Belgian, Swiss and Franch Theophile Alexandre Steinlen Alphonse Mucha Victor Horta Henry van de Velde Hector Guimard Émile Gallé Art Nouveau in Spain Antoni Gaudí

Art Nouveau in Austria Gustav Klimt Koloman Moser Josef Hoffmann Art Nouveau in Germany Hermann Obrist August Endell Art Nouveau in United States Rookwood Pottery of Cincinnati Tiffany Studios of New York City Louis Sullivan

I Think , Therefore I am .

“ If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things”.                               
                                                                                               - Rene Descartes

The guy was trying to figure out if he could prove that he existed, cause it was trendy then to try to prove what all existed and whether or not anything actually existed at all. They had a lot of time on their hands.

He decided that the proof of his own existence was in the observation that he thought - had a mind that could think. So he decided that because he could think, he must exist.

“ I think. Therefore I am"

On a side note, this very guy once walked into a bar and ordered a drink. Bartender brought him a drink. After a while the barkeep noticed his glass was near empty. Another drink, Mr. Descartes?

Urmmph what else that I can describe more from the phrase yeah ? ahaaaa…I think that Descartes identified that something exists, but he may have been in error as to what that 'I' is. All he knew was that thoughts showed up in his mind, and he claimed authorship over those thoughts, assuming the human was the source of them, and therefore the existent entity. 

It can be observed that thought arise spontaneously. There is no one choosing what thoughts to think. It has also been demonstrated that brain motor activity can begin before a conscious choice is even made, implying that there really is no chooser.

Many spiritual systems of belief hold that, that which actually exists forms the mind/body as a vehicle of perception. This Existence is Consciousness and is not the mind. Therefore, Descartes's declaration becomes, 'I AM, therefore I think.'

That’s all for now, I hope you all now have a better understanding of what Descartes was trying to say.

So, do our old pal Descartes a favor folks and keep thinking, lest you may cease to exist!

Which part of the Late 18th century would greatly affect modern design ?

POP! Art was based on the consumer culture of the 1950s and 60s. The culture of this time was based upon conformity and mass production and consumption due to the flourishing economy of Post World War II.

Whaam! (1963) Roy Lichtenstein

One of the greatest modern paintings

The term Pop Art was coined in 1956 by Richard Hamilton's "Just What Makes Today's Home So Different, So Appealing?" which is a work of art that features many products that would be seen in the American home. To Andy Warhol, another well known Pop artist, said Pop art would be of images that people would immediately recognize.

For example, Warhol had repeating images of coke bottles and Campbell soup cans to represent the mass reproduction of the consumer society.

Campbells Soup (1968). Warhol

Therefore i think in this art movement had affect the most in the 18^th century, the artists were more to the tangible objects than abstraction. They used all the materials of everyday in the popular culturesuch as canned goods, science fiction and comic strips.

The entire idea behind Pop Art does not relate so much to the art itself as to the attitudes of the artists about the pieces.

To date, this Pop culture and pop art makes the contemporary art more related to pop culture and less abstract. It was based on the idea of making a works message more easy to understood by the society. The pop culture were more popular with art forms in paintings or in the form of sculpture. Sometimes, the items were flags, tires, animals and popular target images. This movement is trying to get rid off the dullness to modern abstract painting.

And then, the media advertisement and TV also involved in promoting the pop movement. It shows the pop culture became more popular. In modern painting also evolved the pop culture movement to the society. Today the pop art movement has become an important element of the modern painting era.

Pop art is lots of things that high-art isn't - it's mass-produced, it is expendable, it is low-cost, glamorous, witty and encourages big bucks, bright lights and big celebrities - there's no sign of the impoverished artist slaving away in a tiny studio in this movement. However, it's light-hearted sensibilities have been negated by some critics; Harold Rosenberg described Pop art as being 'Like a joke without humour, told over and over again until it begins to sound like a threat... Advertising art which advertises itself as art that hates advertising.'

Is Pop art a serious comment on the contemporary condition – are the Pop artists cynical of the growing mass-media, material culture or is it simply just popular art – accessible, bright and glossy?