Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect who "rejected historicism in favor of a philosophy of organic architecture with the reality of the building. Wright defined organic design as having entity which is something "in which the part is to the whole as the whole is to the part and which is all devoted to a purpose." Wright considered space to be the essence of design. He was also influenced by Japanese architecture and design for harmonious proportion and visual poetry, and pre-Columbian architecture and art. Wright tended to use a repetition of rectangular zones and use of asymmetrical spatial organization were adopted by other designers.
2.Describe the work of the Glasgow school or "the four"
The four were a group of four students in the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. Their designs were described as using symbolic imagery and stylized form. Lines were usually bold and simple and they defined flat planes of color. The four also tended to incorporate abstract interpretations of the human figure and they also innovated a geometric style of composition by tempering floral and curvilinear elements with strong rectangular structure.
3.Describe the Vienna Secessionist work
The Vienna Secessionist works drew inspirations from works of artists from foreign countries. The movement began due to the fact that foreign artists weren't allowed to participate in exhibits. Some inspirations involved :symbolist paintings, French floral styles, and the Glasgow School. Secessionists merged text, illustration, and ornament into a lively unity. Bold line drawing would be combined with handwriting and it would be printed in a color background. Secessionists would later reject the French floral styles and turn to more flat shapes and greater simplicity such as squares, rectangles, and circles in repetition and combination.
4.Name on thing Peter Behrens designed
One thing Peter Behrens designed was the cover for Documents of Modern Applied Arts in 1901. (Figure 12-34)
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