Construction

1923
(American, 1895–1946)
Sheet: 59.4 x 43.8 cm (23 3/8 x 17 1/4 in.); Image: 59.4 x 27.7 cm (23 3/8 x 10 7/8 in.)
© Estate of László Moholy-Nagy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Catalogue raisonné: Passuth 124
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location: not on view

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In 1920 the Hungarian artist László Moholy-Nagy moved to Berlin where he met members of the Russian and German avant-garde who had given up the traditional sculptural techniques of modeling, carving, and bronze casting to experiment with three-dimensional abstract constructions. Moholy-Nagy reduced the components of his compositions to essential geometric shapes and also used transparent elements. Moholy-Nagy's "glass architecture," with its strict order of intersecting elements and purity of forms, achieves harmony and equilibrium. Exploiting the rich blacks and fine gradations of tone possible with lithography, he produced the same effect in two-dimensions.
Construction

Construction

1923

László Moholy-Nagy

(American, 1895–1946)
America, 20th century

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