László Moholy-Nagy, de la fotoplástica a la arquitectura total

Abstract

The paper focuses on Moholy-Nagy’s use of photography in the 1920s, when he left his native Hungary to settle in Germany. His constantly evolving artistic career saw him experiment with painting, sculpture, theatre, film and photography in seeking to create an aesthetic based on light effects and dynamism. He used photography not merely to capture images, but as a creative tool that resulted in what he called “photoplastic” art and which was based on the fusion of drawing and photomontage. “Photoplastic” art was especially relevant in Moholy-Nagy’s architectural work, foreshadowing a dynamic and utopian spatial conception that he had theorised years earlier.