Telephone Paintings

Between Art (Moholy-Nagy) and GANs

Merzmensch
Towards Data Science
5 min readAug 23, 2020

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Telephone Painting” by spelafort / (screenshot by Merzmensch)

Avant-Gardist and Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) made art with a phone, long before Instagram was a thing. Even before a phone was a thing. But without this apparatus of distant communication his works “Telephone Pictures” wouldn’t be possible.

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