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August 19, 2009
The painting in Pete's office

A B-rate Molohly-Nagy knock off? Or the real thing? We don’t recognize the print. Can you help?

Something on Molohly Nagy, a dynamo of modernist art, in the meantime:

Through the 1920s, Moholy-Nagy was part of the new artistic movement sweeping across Europe, a revolutionary movement in which representational and story-telling art was jettisoned in favour of the abstract, primordial, elemental. Functional design for mass production and mass distribution was seen as a means of repairing the devastating social damage done by war. This was the brilliantly iconoclastic period in which Mondrian and Van Doesburg were pursing the objective harmonies of rectangles and primary colours in their paintings, and Gabo was conceiving his constructivist monument to the industrial revolution. 

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