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Construction (Konstruktion)
Two tall, rectangular intersecting planes, one black and one white, create the appearance of a tall, minimal structure. Vertical lines of black and white add to the structure, which at its base projects slightly into a rough square shape that seems to delineate a kind of ground or base. The space around the structure is ochre.
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Untitled (Structural Constellation drawing)
pen and ink drawing on half inch grid graph paper ruled in blue
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Konstruktionen (6)

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Konstruktionen (6)

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Konstruktionen (6)

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Arsonist Marionette

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Untitled (Sarajevo Olympics)

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Stars

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Stars

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Stars

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Untitled
This is a red line drawing on cream colored paper. There are curvilinear lines of various lengths and widths with an artist's signature in the lower right corner- "Robert Schwitters, 3.8.1926."
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Untitled
A collage composed of different colored pieces of sandpaper of different grades or textures, construction paper, printed papers, and a piece of embossed leather. Most of the sandpaper pieces are in an overlapping group in the center of the piece. In the viewer's upper right there is a purple piece of paper printed with a throng of human figures.
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Grotte 194
Black and white close-up image of torn and crumpled multi-textural paper.
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Melon
Black and white photograph of a sphere with a textured surface casting a shadow toward the viewer's left.
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Blockhouse, Ios, Greece
Photograph of a section of a square-shaped building.
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Glen Canyon Wall
A rock wall showing varying textures and age.
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Sediment
This black and white print depicts geometric forms arranged to suggest some kind of mechanical contraption. Two larger circular forms are arranged side-by-side in the center of the composition. A line rest diagonally atop these forms and above the line an assortment of circular and less definite shapes and textures (depicted with cross-hatching and other techniques) are described. The print is imbued with a smoke-like atmosphere as a result of the spitbite and aquatint.<br />
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Iceberg #10, Disko Bay, Greenland
This photograph depicts an iceberg in a bay. The iceberg fills most of the frame and subtely emerges from the background.
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Untitled (Aerial View of Beach)
An aerial view of where water meets land. The image is full of texture representing the different landforms. The water creates a "C" curve on the right hand side of the image, while the sand creates a reverse "C" curve on the left side.
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Still Life with Musical Instruments (Study for a Bas-Relief)
This drawing shows a few musical instruments abstracted in a cubist way. The largest and central instrument seems to be a guitar while below and to the left, behind the guitar, there seems to be a flute-like piece.
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Composition

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Articulation: Formulation
On a long white horizontal piece of paper are two squares, on the left blue and on the right gold, each with squares nested in them. 
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Articulation: Formulation
Two yellowish squares on a long horizontal piece of white paper with other squares nested in them, in shades of yellow and grey. 
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Articulation: Formulation
In this print there are two vertical rectangles on a long horizontal white piece of paper, each with rectangles embedded in them. In the center of each is a square that seems to open out like a door.
Collection Object
Articulation: Formulation
On a long white horizontal piece of paper are two rectangles. On the left the rectangle is in shades of grey and on the right, in shades of blue and grey. Within each are geometric shapes in white that look like vertical boxes. 
Collection Object
Articulation: Formulation
On a long horizontal white piece of paper are two rectangles, grey on the left and black on the right. In each shape are outlines of geometric shapes and planes of grey crisscrossing them. 
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Construction (Konstruktion)

Accession Number
1957/1.30

Title
Construction (Konstruktion)

Artist(s)
László Moholy-Nagy

Artist Nationality
American (North American)

Object Creation Date
1923

Medium & Support
color lithograph on paper

Dimensions
23 1/4 x 17 1/4 in. (59.06 x 43.82 cm);28 1/16 x 22 1/16 in. (71.28 x 56.04 cm);23 1/4 x 17 1/4 in. (59.06 x 43.82 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Jean Paul Slusser

Label copy
László Moholy-Nagy
United States, 1895–1946
Construction (Konstruktion)
1923
Color lithograph
Gift of Jean Paul Slusser, 1957/1.30
(Flip Your Field: Abstract Art from the Collection, June 9 – September 2, 2012, text by Celeste Brusati)
László Moholy-Nagy
United States, 1895–1946
Construction (Konstruktion)
1923
Color lithograph
Gift of Jean Paul Slusser, 1957/1.30

Subject matter
The basic forms and lines of this piece consider fundamental formal relationships and are in dialogue with Bauhaus ideas about architecture and industrial design.

Physical Description
Two tall, rectangular intersecting planes, one black and one white, create the appearance of a tall, minimal structure. Vertical lines of black and white add to the structure, which at its base projects slightly into a rough square shape that seems to delineate a kind of ground or base. The space around the structure is ochre.

Primary Object Classification
Print

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
Bauhaus
Minimal
abstraction
color lithographs
geometric abstraction
high-rise buildings
modern and contemporary art
rectangles

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