Maholy-Nagy Response
Imaan Ezzat
Maholy-Nagy Response
I found Maholy-Nagy’s work to be masterfully crafted, but I was not personally attracted to or interested in his style. His artwork seemed to consist of the basic visual fundamentals of color, light and texture. I found his experimentation with light successful and an essential part too many of abstract art pieces. It was interesting how a lot of his pieces varied from shapes, to people, to landscapes and more and he was not afraid to experiment with new objects. Despite this, they all retained the same abstract aspects of light and angles which defined Maholy-Nagy’s work. Maholy-Nagy‘s photographic work was the most inspirational and impressive relative to his other types of artwork. With his lens he tried to capture what the human eye could not see. His photogram work, in which he experimented with laying objects over light sensitive paper while exposing it to light, was also very innovative at the time. His use of shadows to manipulate the objects form and appearance was also intriguing.