Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 2: Modern Era (1850–1949)
1923
Construction in Enamel by László Moholy-Nagy
Moholy-Nagy’s piece, which he described over the telephone to a local enamel factory in Weimar, would go on to influence the Japanese Jikken Kobo movement, particularly Katsuhiro Yamaguchi’s “order art.”
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
People
Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, László Moholy-Nagy
Movements
Bauhaus, instruction art
Filed under
- Technologies
- enamel, telephone
- People
- Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, László Moholy-Nagy
- Works
- Art and Technology, Construction in Enamel
- Organisations
- Bauhaus, Jikken Kobo
- Places
- Germany, Weimar
Echoes across time
- 1991 · Keith Tyson begins working on ArtMachine
- 1970 · Information exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art
- 2004 · {Software} Structures by Casey Reas, Jared Tarbell, Robert Hodgin and William Ngan
Le Random editorials
- Dmitri Cherniak on Strictly for Art, Peter Bauman, May 26, 2025
- Mona Lisa to monogrid, Peter Bauman, March 6, 2024
- Gottfried Jäger on a New Kind of Being, Anika Meier, March 2, 2026
Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 2—Modern Era with Kate Vass — listen with transcript on Le Random (20 Jul 2023, 58 min). Transcript mentions László Moholy-Nagy. Chapter 2’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 5—Artist-Programmer Era (1970s) with Joan Truckenbrod, Hans Dehlinger & Anika Meier — listen with transcript on Le Random (14 Jan 2024, 65 min). Transcript mentions László Moholy-Nagy. Apple Podcasts · Spotify