Modern Art and Camouflage

          Who said that art and war contradict each other? Not László Moholy-Nagy who was chased after to revolutionize the way soldiers were hidden. Moholy-Nagy was known for his abstract sculptures and painted which manipulated the eye into seeing distorted images. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Moholy- Nagy and his students worked on a design to help distort soldiers and war bases from an aerial perspective. Moholy-Nagy and his camouflage advancements became so popular that his school transformed into a school focused on camouflage design. Moholy-Nagy's work wasin line with the rise of modernism and cubism which was greatly influenced by the world wars. 

          It is strange to hear that art and war have such close ties together. The suppression of the assistance of modernism and design in war is due to the conflict that artists have with war and it's bad connotation. Violence is preferably not put together with aesthetics and creation because they are often put at the opposite end of the spectrum of human emotions.