László Moholy-Nagy, Kinetic sculpture | Romance - Endless Love (Ecstatic)

László Moholy-Nagy, Kinetic sculpture moving, c. 1933.
Picture taken from: PAUL, Christiane (2005) - Digital Art. Thames & Hudson (world of art).

 

László Moholy-Nagy born (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts. The art critic Peter Schjeldahl called him "relentlessly experimental" because of his pioneering work in painting, drawing, photography, collage, sculpture, film, theater, and writing.

He also worked collaboratively with other artists, including his first wife Lucia Moholy, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and Herbert Bayer. His largest accomplishment may be the School of Design in Chicago, which survives today as part of the Illinois Institute of Technology, which art historian Elizabeth Siegel called "his overarching work of art". He also wrote books and articles advocating a utopian type of high modernism. read more...

Music Suggestion:

Romance - Endless Love (Ecstatic: ELP083), released February 14, 2024.

Romance makes a surprise with an astonishing return on this Valentine's Day with ‘Endless Love’, a 35-minute «long» pocket symphony for anyone wounded by Cupid’s arrow. ‘Endless Love’ is a dreamlike elegy to love and passion (almost religious, or seemly devotional, I think!), in which a Greek chorus of Diana Ross, Lionel Richie, Mariah Carey, and Luther Vandross chronicles the drama, dissonance, and devotion of a tempestuous relationship. Romance deploys swelling strings, vaporous synth pads, and gossamer electroacoustic elements to create an epic slow-mo power ballad. 

Coming on like Romance's trashy response to Basinski's Disintegration Loops or GAS's Pop, ‘Endless Love’ is a beguiling Valentine's gift from Ecstatic's resident heartbreaker. ‘Endless Love’ could be (at this present moment),  the most suitable soundtrack to play on Gian Lorenzo Bernini's sculpture "The Ecstasy of St. Teresa" 1645–52; in the Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome.  I'm in love... Ace!