Wednesday, March 3

I gave my presentation in class about the genesis of 20th century design. I talked about Frank Lloyd Wright, "The Four", The Vienna Secession and their magazine, "Ver Sacrum". Afterwards, we discussed Peter Behrens and his style. He had a very structured design style that could even be used as plans for a building. We also talked about questions that we had about art nouveau and the answers we had come up with. I was glad to get my project out of the way and I feel that discussing our questions in class was interesting. I got to hear what other people wanted to know and it was interesting to know what information was found. I especially liked the question about the American Art Nouveau movement since we didn't read about it in the book. Why is it that we are reading very much about what's going on in America during these different styles?