Sunday, November 11, 2012

Herbert Matter

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-Herbert Matter influenced the way we looked at things.
  --Was the most influential photographer and designer.
-Matter was instrumental in shaping modern art.
  --He influenced Jackson Pollock.
-He believed that to understand design you need to understand space and scale.
  --Matter was a workaholic.
-Because of his mentor, Leger, Herbert Matter's work moves to a constructivist and computerist style.
  --Film surrealism influenced Matter.
-Pollock's paintings were very influenced by Matter's photography.
  --Matter was a formalist.
-Herbert pursued mostly personal work in his last decade.  
  --Herbert Matter died in 1984.

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