Folded planes floating over a ruled web

Fine ruled lines cross the pale ground in a loose web, drawn thin enough to read as drafting rather than structure. Over them float small folded planes, each creased so two faces show at once: navy turning to cornflower at the upper right, black to grey beside it, vermilion to a soft salmon below, and further left a black one paired with pale coral and a lilac one with pink. They are scattered rather than aligned, and the lower half of the picture is left almost empty except for the lines running through it.

László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) was a Hungarian painter, photographer and designer and one of the defining teachers of the Bauhaus, where he led the preliminary course and the metal workshop from 1923 to 1928. He worked in paint, photography, typography and light, pioneering the cameraless photogram and setting out his ideas in Malerei, Fotografie, Film (1925). Driven out of Germany, he worked in Amsterdam and London before settling in Chicago, where he founded the New Bauhaus in 1937. His work is held by the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Art Institute of Chicago and Tate.

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