Sunday, May 29, 2011

THE VIENNA SECESSION AND ADOLF LOOS









Adolf LooS and Ornament and Crime

Adolf loos was born 1870 and was in German family.He was influential in European Modern architecture and his ornament and crime he repudiated florid style of vienna secession version of art nouveau.He elaboration of a body of theory and critism of modernism in architecture.He explored the idea that the progress of culture is associated with the delation of ornament from everyday object between organic and superfluous decoration.
Adolf Loos also intrerested in the decorative arts,collecting sterling silver,lether goods and plain yet luxurious appeal and also enjoy with men's clothes designing.The economics of labour and wasted materials in moderm industrial civilization.Lack of embellishment is appropriate in the modern times.Lack of ornament is a sign intelectual power.A liking of ornament not just cut a cast but also a "crime againts the economy' Design must be generated fron function and aesthetic taste and style not be taken over the Design.Beauty is in Pure Form










Vienna Secession


represent protest of youngers






generation the traditional art to their forebears
"and separation "from the past towards future
was found on 3 april 1897 by artist Gustav Klimt.
Klimt is the painter of the woman.
He mature works are characterized by rejection of earlier naturalistic styles and make use of symbols to convey psychological ideas and emphasizes the freedom of art from
traditional culture.

The Secession artists objected the prevailing
conservatism of the traditional orientation toward Historicism.

The group earned considerable credit for it exhubition policy which made the french Impressionist somewhat familiar to the Vienna public.



In 1903 Hoffman and Moser founded the Wiener Wekstate
as fine art society with the goal reforming
the applied arts(arts and craft)

On 14 June 1905 Gustav Klimt
and other artists left the Vienna Secession due to

Differences of opinion over
artistic concept

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