Jackson Pollock, Number 22, 1949 (oil & enamel on paper mounted on masonite).
Jackson Pollock’s expressionist painting exemplifies the rejection of realism within Fine Art characteristic of the early Modernist movement.
Poster for Fritz Lang’s film ‘Metropolis’, 1927 (colour litho)
Both the film itself and the poster exemplify the technological concerns of the Modernist movement. Firstly, the poster is a lithographic print. The invention of lithography, meant that letterpress no longer had to be used as the main form of printing and images could be mass produced meaning that Art and Graphic Design could now reach a much wider audience.
Marcel Breuer, Club Chair B3 (Wassily) 1925 (bent steel tube frame, chromed).
El Lissitzky, Illustration to ‘The Story of Two Squares’, written by the artist, pub. in Berlin, 1922 (printed book).
Le Corbusier, Exterior of Villa Savoye, built c.1929-31 (photo)
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