Am I Secessonist OR Loos???

  Hi...meet ya again... my 3rd assignment! This time i need to choose which movement are suitable with my carrier background! Which one was influenced me...before i make a decision, lets get a research about this two of movement SECESSIONIST and LOOS!

Vienna Secession

(was founded on 3 April 1897 by artists Gustav Klimt)

  

GUSTAV KLIMT (1862- 1918)

Potrait of Gustav Klimt

   In shortly about Gustav, he is Austrian painter and draughtsman, best known for his decorative sensual portraits of women. The leading exponent of Art Nouveau, founder and president of the Vienna Secession.

   

   Klimt became one of the founding members and president of the Wiener Sezession (Vienna Secession) in 1897 and of the group's periodical Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring). He remained with the Secession until 1908. 

   The group's goals were to provide exhibitions for unconventional young artists, to bring the best foreign artists' works to Vienna, and to publish its own magazine to showcase members' work. The group declared no manifesto and did not set out to encourage any particular style Naturalists, Realists, and Symbolists all coexisted. 

The Frieze is a major highlight of Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900

His Nuda Verita (1899) defined his bid to further shake up the establishment.

  He also known as Klimt's 'Golden Phase' was marked by positive critical reaction and success. Many of his oil paintings from this period used gold leaf, the prominent use of gold can first be traced back to Pallas Athene (1898), although the works most popularly associated with this period are the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) and The Kiss (1907–1908). Instead of painting,Vienna Secession also have promoted their design aesthetic with exhibition posters and its own journal, as Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring). 

Ver Sacrum: Cover of the first edition. Design by A. Roller, 1898.

  The journal housed reproductions, poetry illustrations, graphic art, decorative borders, object design, and cutting-edge conceptions for layout. The artistic layout lay in the hands of artists of the Vienna Secession and frequently presented original printed graphics (especially by G. Klimt, K. Moser, J. Hoffmann and A. Roller), numerous numbers were in the form of monographs and thus familiarised a broad readership with the works of individual artists who were playing an important role in the development of modern art. After 1900, Ver Sacrum was only published as an internal information journal for members of the Vienna Secession.

   Art historians note an eclectic range of influences contributing to Klimt's distinct style, including Egyptian, Minoan, Classical Greek, and Byzantine inspirations. Klimt was also inspired by the engravings of Albrecht Dürer, late medieval European painting. His mature works are characterized by a rejection of earlier naturalistic styles, and make use of symbols or symbolic elements to convey psychological ideas and emphasize the "freedom" of art from traditional culture.


Adolf Loos
(1870-1933) 

Portrait of Adolf Loos

  
   He was an architect who became the most important pioneers of the modern movement and famous for his ideas than for his buildings. Adolf Loos believed that reason should determine the way we build, and he opposed the decorative Art Nouveau movement. In Ornament & Crime and other essays, Loos described the suppression of decoration as necessary for regulating passion. 

   The visual distinction is not between complicated and simple, but between "organic" and superfluous decoration. Loos was also interested in the decorative art, collecting sterling silver and high quality leather goods, which he note for their plant yet luxurious appeal.
   
   Loos attacked contemporary design as well as the imitative styling of the nineteenth century. He looked on contemporary decoration as mass-produced, mass-consumed trash. Loos acted as a model and a seer for architects of the 1920s. His fight for freedom from the decorative styles of the nineteenth century led a campaign for future architects. Loos stylistic features home design mostly was straight lines, clear planar walls & windows, clean curves, raumplan (plan of volume) system of contiguous, merging spaces, each room on the different level, with floors and ceilings set at different hight.

Simple, plain, modern garden facade, Vienna, Austria by Adolf Loos -1910

   Too much explanation from this two ideologies and eras between Secession & Loos...and i personally agreed with the design and the philosophy of Secession, because the design are almost constructivist in inspiration.! Great!!!

see ya in next assignment *____*