Behind the Back of the Gods. Artist: László Moholy-Nagy (American (born Hungary), Borsod 1895-1946 Chicago, Illinois). Dimensions: 36.0 x 27.4 cm (14 3/16 x 10 13/16 in.). Date: 1928.Moholy-Nagy played a key role at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau as a painter, graphic artists, teacher, and impassioned advocate of avant-garde photography. In 1923, he began making collages of images he clipped from magazines and newspapers, which he then re-photographed and furnished with enigmatic and allusive titles, creating visual riddles to be deciphered by the viewer. In this composition of two circles connected by perspectival lines, a young woman athlete appears to be jumping or falling through empty space from one world into another in a tremendous leap of faith. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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