Meaningful Typographies
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Un dernier vers pour la route
Miss.Tic
Painting - 31 x 51 x 1 cm Painting - 12.2 x 20.1 x 0.4 inch
$6,698
Regarder le temps passer
Ben
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 23.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 9.3 inch
$4,465
Two jumping fishes
Ed Ruscha
Fine Art Drawings - 49 x 100 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.3 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$8,707
Untitled (All communication must cease)
David Shrigley
Fine Art Drawings - 36.5 x 28 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.4 x 11 x 0.8 inch
$9,500
Buste Antique
Arnaud Puig aka ARDPG
Sculpture - 50 x 40 x 14 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 15.7 x 5.5 inch
$1,563
Visual attraction
Arnaud Puig aka ARDPG
Painting - 83 x 50 x 6 cm Painting - 32.7 x 19.7 x 2.4 inch
$2,679
Trop heureuse pour être peureuse
Miss.Tic
Print - 76 x 56 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
$2,009
Série de 6 assiettes en porcelaine, Ben série 1998
Ben
Design - 53 x 79.5 x 15 cm Design - 20.9 x 31.3 x 5.9 inch
$1,340
J’ai demandé à la lune
Yohan Storti
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$2,233
Ideally this wall would melt under your gaze
Laure Prouvost
Print - 60 x 45 cm Print - 23.6 x 17.7 inch
$1,340
Une scène d'adieux
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 4.5 inch
$781
I want it all
Mary Jo McGonagle
Sculpture - 46 x 81 x 7 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 31.9 x 2.8 inch
$3,572
Untitled
Darryl McCray (Cornbread)
Painting - 40.5 x 51 x 2 cm Painting - 15.9 x 20.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,674
Minotaure Escape Game
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
$469
Darwin's Conundrum
Matthew Rose
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 8.3 inch
$391
Feel Free to Fall
Vikenti Komitski
Fine Art Drawings - 47 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.5 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$1,284
Avec qui mettre son âme à table ? Épreuve d'artiste
Miss.Tic
Design - 30 x 100 x 100 cm Design - 11.8 x 39.4 x 39.4 inch
$8,930
Always Here, Never There
Vikenti Komitski
Print - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Print - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$927
A Safe [?] Place [?] to Fall…. v.2.12
LosOtros blank
Print - 70 x 100 x 1 cm Print - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,072
Tag 17
Darryl McCray (Cornbread)
Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 11 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.5 x 4.3 x 0 inch
$195
Casserole with Kinder Surprise
Vikenti Komitski
Sculpture - 34 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$3,684
Depli-Color (1)
Jean Degottex
Painting - 162 x 162 x 4 cm Painting - 63.8 x 63.8 x 1.6 inch
Price upon request
Se croire heureuse quand on est ivre de bonne heure
Miss.Tic
Painting - 60 x 73 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 inch
$10,605
C'est une histoire de temps
Ben
Fine Art Drawings - 23.5 x 32 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.3 x 12.6 inch
$4,465
Live Each Day As If It Were Your First
David Shrigley
Print - 75 x 55 cm Print - 29.5 x 21.7 inch
$10,939
I will retrieve your phone... (Dolphin)
David Shrigley
Print - 75 x 55 cm Print - 29.5 x 21.7 inch
$5,023
Double Cheeseburger End Of The World Giveaway
David Shrigley
Print - 75 x 55 cm Print - 29.5 x 21.7 inch
$7,256
Meaningful Typographies
The 15th-century invention of the moveable printing press by Johannes Gutenberg changed everything. Not only could words be published and distributed on a large scale but literacy would improve, news could be created and read and typography would evolve from decorative to functional to an important art form. Post-1919 Germany saw the establishment of the Bauhaus, later seeing the famous Sans-serif type define its aesthetic. Bauhaus artists like Herbert Bayer influenced Jan Tschichold, the man who created visual experiences on a subconscious level for all the book lovers, who could now see art in books, even while only observing letters. His most important work was Die Neue Typographie (The New Typography) published in 1928, as a masterpiece of modern typography and graphic design. This book standardized typographic practices with a set of rules and reflected a move towards a more universal communication style. Though adopted by artists like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Barbara Kruger, it was Mike Edwards who pioneered contemporary Typographic art, creating word paintings and text portraits. In our own selection of works you will find the likes of Vikenti Komitski whose conceptual work uses typography whilst Maria Qamar demonstrates that words and their meaning carry weight, communicating her comics-inspired work to the world for everyone to understand.