Phone picture

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A telephone picture is a method of creating pictures that László Moholy-Nagy developed in the 1920s.

Procedure

In 1922 Moholy-Nagy transmitted - as the name already suggests - selected color samples and shapes by telephone with the help of graph paper ; At the other end of the line, in a sign factory , the "image data" of the EM 2 telephone picture were fixed on graph paper and then executed in porcelain enamel.

Moholy-Nagy describes his procedure as follows:

“In 1922 I ordered five email pictures from a sign factory by phone. I had the company's color chart in front of me and sketched the pictures on construction paper. At the other end of the phone, the foreman had the same squared paper in front of him. He drew the shape I had dictated using the correct positions. (It was like a game of chess in the mail.) One of the pictures was delivered in three different sizes so that I could study the subtle changes in color references brought about by enlarging and reducing. "

- The New Vision and Abstract of an Artist, p. 79

Another description comes from Sibyl Moholy-Nagy , the artist's second wife:

“He had to prove to himself the supra-individualism of the constructivist concept, ie the existence of objective visual values ​​independent of the artist's inspiration and his special“ peinture ”. He dictated his pictures to the foreman in a sign factory using a color chart and a checkered order form to determine the position of the form elements and their exact color. The design transferred in this way was executed in three sizes in order to demonstrate the importance of the structure and the emotional impact it influenced by means of different densities and spatial references. "

- Moholy-Nagy. Experiment in Totality, S. XV

meaning

Moholy-Nagy's phone pictures are the first media works of art in art history .

The concept was taken up again in the Art by Telefone exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1969.

See also

literature

  • László Moholy-Nagy: The New Vision and Abstract of an Artist . New York: Wittenborn 1947
  • László Moholy-Nagy: painting, photography, film . 1925 (English edition Painting, Photography, Film ). Massachusetts: MIT Press 1987
  • Sibyl Moholy-Nagy : Moholy-Nagy. Experiment in Totality . Massachusetts: MIT Press 1969

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