Untitled

László Moholy-Nagy

1937–44

Gelatin silver print

Minneapolis Institute of Art

An abstract composition of overlapping, curving, and angular forms creates a dynamic, three-dimensional effect. Light and shadow play across the surfaces, defining the shapes and their spatial relationships. An abstract composition of overlapping, curving, and angular forms creates a dynamic, three-dimensional effect. Light and shadow play across the surfaces, defining the shapes and their spatial relationships. László Moholy-Nagy was a leading figure of the Bauhaus, a modern art and design school founded by the architect Walter Gropius, as well as being a prominent member of the related New Objectivity Movement. Moholy-Nagy worked as a painter, graphic artist, photographer, and teacher, and he produced this image without a camera by arranging objects directly on a sheet of photo paper and exposing it to light. The resulting photogram i