How Zaha Hadid Revolutionized Structure & Drew Inspiration from Russian Avant-Garde Artwork

Zaha Hadid died in 2016, on the age of 65. She cer­tain­ly was­n’t outdated, by the stan­dards of our time, although in most professional­fes­sions, her greatest work­ing years would have already got been behind her. She was, how­ev­er, an archi­tect, and by age 65, most archi­tects are nonetheless very a lot of their prime. Take…

Optical Poems by Oskar Fischinger: Uncover the Avant-Garde Animator Despised by Hitler & Dissed by Disney

At a time when a lot of ani­ma­tion was con­sumed with lit­tle anthro­po­mor­phized ani­mals sport­ing white gloves, Oskar Fischinger went in a com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent direc­tion. His work is all about danc­ing geo­met­ric shapes and summary types spin­ning round a flat fea­ture­much less again­floor. Consider a Mon­dri­an or Male­vich paint­ing that strikes, typically in time to…

Watch an Avant-Garde Bauhaus Ballet in Sensible Coloration, First Staged in 1922

We cred­it the Bauhaus faculty, discovered­ed by Ger­man archi­tect Wal­ter Gropius in 1919, for the aes­thet­ic prin­ci­ples which have guid­ed a lot mod­ern design and archi­tec­ture within the twentieth and twenty first cen­turies. The varsity’s rela­tion­ships with artists like Paul Klee, Wass­i­ly Kandin­sky, Las­z­lo Moholy-Nagy, and Lud­wig Mies van der Rohe imply that Bauhaus is…