7 A.M. (New Year's Morning)

László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He is arguably one of the greatest influences on post-war art education in the United States. A modernist and a restless experimentalist from the outset, he was shaped by Dadaism, Suprematism, Constructivism, and debates about photography. His experience with the abstract organization of pictorial space and with the school's design curriculum clearly influence this photograph. A less sophisticated artist would not have seen that a picture could be hung on such a minimal scaffold of small incidents, traces, and shadows, precisely related.

I love this print so much, it is so modern!

P.S. Everyone has heard of Bauhaus, but have you heard of its founder, Walter Gropius? Learn who he was and how he shaped modern Western art.

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