Photoplasty
The term photoplastic was coined by László Moholy-Nagy . It describes artistic photographic works that result from the combination and interconnection of various graphic and other design elements with photographic works.
Conceptual origin
The Bauhaus master László Moholy-Nagy, who taught in the 1920s from 1923 to 1928, coined the term photoplastic as an expression for artistic photographic work that results from the combination and interconnection of various graphic and other design elements with photographic work. By photoplastics Moholy-Nagy did not mean sculptures , just as Joseph Beuys did not see a three-dimensional structure with his term social sculpture .
In the photoplastic, according to Moholy-Nagy, “the combination of photographic elements with lines and other additions creates unexpected tensions that go far beyond the meaning of the individual parts ... because it is precisely the interlinking of photographically depicted event elements, from the simple to the Complicated superimpositions form a strange unit ... the results of this unit can be exhilarating, moving, devastating, satirical, visionary, revolutionary, etc. "
The art historian and expert on Photography Reinhold Mißelbeck described during a photo plastic exhibition of artists in 1999, the obvious conceptual misunderstanding of photo sculpture with the concept of a sculpture or a sculpture as follows: "It is ... striking that artists who are not in their concept of finding want to talk about photographic art or social art, but ultimately mean art, prefer to use the term plastic. This may be due to the fact that the term art, from hobby art to computer art, is constantly mistreated so much that one has to be afraid that serious critics will turn away with horror as soon as the term art is used as an attribute. Photoplastic means ... nothing else than that the ... works are not about what can be seen in the photographs, but about the photographs as artefacts, as objects, the artistic aspect of which is in the totality, the interaction of Concept, material and image constituted. "
Photoplastics are therefore artistic photographic works that result from the combination and interconnection of various graphic and other design elements with photographic works and that do not have a purely depicting character.
literature
- L. Moholy-Nagy: photography is lighting design , in: bauhaus, issue 1, Dessau 1928
- Reinhold Mißelbeck: Photography of the 20th Century Cologne 2001, Taschen-Verlag. ISBN 3-8228-5513-8
Individual evidence
- ↑ L. Moholy-Nagy p. 9
- ↑ Reinhold Mißelbeck: Photography of the 20th Century Cologne 2001, Taschen-Verlag. ISBN 3-8228-5513-8
- ↑ Opening speech for the exhibition The combinations of the possible result in a rich tension - photoplastic works by eight artists , Cologne 1998