Moholy Nagy

Laszlo Moholy Nagy is of Hongroise origin. In, 1919 It settles in Berlin where it is interested in work of the constructivists especially that of Casimir Malevitch and El lissitsky. In 1923 it joined Bauhaus of Weimar.

Moholy Nagy is a general-purpose artist, he tries out the new techniques of photography and of the cinema he creates kinetic machines and mobile objects and well on joining, assembly. Joining Gis Noir Blue of 1920 in is an example. It considers the problem of the light in painting and on the effects of transparency of the colors which results from this. But joinings realized before remains of linear geometrical construction.

Theorist of the photographic medium he led experiences which have him permi to invent the photogram (See this against) and he drafted " peintrue, photography, film ". He shares with Alexandre Rodtchenko that the photography is an autonomous medium the means and the potentialities of which it is necessary to emphasize.

However her judgment on the pictorialisme is without appeal. In " New methods it photgraphie " 1928, it considers as obsolete these various formulations blurred by pictorial principles. The jamming of the pictorialisme is a confusion of essences of the paint and that of the photography.

With artists like Raoul Hausmann and the historian Franz Roh, it considers in the years 1920 the photomontage a major form of modern realism. In accordance with the déconstructions Dadaïses it allots a constructive role which reconciles free composition and strict imitation. effects characteristic of the modern art. The photomontage is a concept which becomes dominant at the time of the assembly. It controls aesthetic research under the influence of the realizers and theorists of the cinema.

According to Moholy Nagy these innovations in the artistic process encourage with “tranformer the photographic process of recording in a deliberated artistic activity” photography records appearances of the things, the artist photomontor “builds a new unit photographiqueà the assistance of photographs given or chosen” It is the distinction between photography and the photomontage. The stereotype is for the photographer a result C is on the contrary for the artists materials artistic to handle, cut out, stick, assemble, go up.