Bauhaus

So I was close! I knew the Bauhaus was a school and a thought... in the movie they said it was literally the "building house", which makes sense... both because the school in an architectural place and a school that is building/teaching. Speaking of teaching, I want to learn German now... I could understand some of it surprisingly. Back to the Bauhaus, I really felt for the students being moved around. Did the students follow the school or once the school left? Or were they stuck to go to another school or quit art school completely. I'd image there would be other schools around, but most likely the way the school thought was different. I couldn't imagine myself following a school that moved around a lot. Were the students just left in the dust? "Good-bye students. We have to move now. The Nazis are coming. Sorry?" No wonder the students rioted. I would have.


Bauhaus 1919-1933

open for only 14yrs. 1250 students. not many students...

basis of design education

Walter Gropius. 1st director of the Bauhaus, 1919-1928. return to arts and crafts... go back to the old ways. Published the... used a cathedral to represent PAINTING, SCULPTURE, and ARCHITECTURE. A social unity. All should be equally valued as one. Used cathedral like John Ruskin. utopian ideals are important. 

COUNCIL OF MASTERS

Gropius is headmaster

Gerhard Marks...sculpture/pottery shop

Lyonel Feringer... painting

Johannes Itten... head of design. foundation program. leaves Bauhaus in 1923, during the first Bauhaus exhibition. Shift to design thinking, straying away from arts and craft.

core foundation program, analysis of old masters work. create abstract things out of trash/rubbish. hard contrast with soft. contrast, contrast, contrast!

cubisim, De Stijl. SHIFT OF THOUGHT IN THE BAUHAUS. ART & TECHNOLOGY: A NEW UNITY.

László Moholy-Nagy: Hungarian constructivist. worked with resin, photomontague, and....

typo-photo. he sees photography is going to take over painting. new visual language for a new age. photogram.... where the shadow is, it turns white. photo-plastic...photomontage: collage of photos.

Bauhaus made in industrial area. move in 1926. to Dessau, Germany. student designs in catalogues. made in the Dessau industrial city.

the universal alphabet... doing away with serifs and capitals. flushing to the right. hierarchy and contrast. explored strong horizontals and verticals in their compositions. Dominate horizontals and verticals. 

Viec Monroe "Less is More."

The Bauhaus

All I know about the Bauhaus is that it's a style and school. That's all... let's learn!

Avant Garde in Russia

Piet Mondrian's tree studies over time experimenting with the latest art movement got me inspired to do the same... it's a good idea and it shows the artists' change of style. It's as if the artist is going through time.
Avant garde in Russia

El Lissitzky... constructionism: art has meaning for state, authority, etc. Practical application. 

photomontage... the modern way of making art. 

montage in cinema... film The Battleship Potemkin. 

Eisentein's Potemkin

Alexander Rodchenko: to go constructivist for design! Creating something for the people, you have moral good.

bars used as graphic elements, with collage, overprinting. generous space.

De Stijl... movement developed in the Netherlands. Utopian approach to aesthetics. utopian society with FUNCTIONAL art. communication design. rectalinial planes, void of surface textures/decorations. no trees, cows, illustration. pure hue color. mathematical structure. universal harmony to use in art. 

Piet Mondrian

Founder of De Stijl: Theo van Deoesburg. Asymmetrical design... universal structures, asymmetrical balance. Data Poems. 

Isims & Depressing Movie

Depressing movie...*ORGAN* suprematism... Malevich. Revolution. Advent Guard art. Individuality in art not allowed. Socialist Realism was the only art accepted by communists. All the Cubism and suprematism stuff was hidden away... don't remember anymore...Hitler says that art needs to be understood by the Proletariat(common man and worker). In the times of the proletariat, maybe the art was understood, but honestly, I doubt it was fully understood until later.

Bauhaus 1919-1933

isims

illustrations, romantic. Allies powers.

reductive, sophisticated. Axis powers.

Hohlwein's work recognizable with stamp mark that looks like a Z. 1914. reductive form. figure downplay with figure's hat and background Red Cross. emotional appeal to donate to the Red Cross. 1936, winged figure souring through sky over the olympic flag. Stencil reductive form. 

Hitler propaganda says the allies posters were superior... ironic because axis was more superior.

Germany Und du? And you? Masculine poster

Hohlwein's work is tainted because he worked to Axis side.

1918, Edward McKnight Kauffer. ideas of cubism applied to communication design(like the cube-like birds and women & rain with umbrella) generous use of negative space. cubism.

Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.... cubism. analytical cubism = beginning. synthetic cubism= later, the collages.

1925 Adolphe Mouron Cassandre....language of abstraction. telegraph poles, structure. The telegraph

pictorial posters. north star, paris to amsterdam poster. white star and train track. Pullman car poster. graphically interesting. 

ship is a rectangle, little tugboat. 

Dubonnet poster. The type words work with the art so well. It has greater meaning.

Train bar poster. Picture of train wheel, cubism bar items on top.

Russian Avent guard. 

Cubo-Futurism, suprematism, constructivism. 

Bala's dog. little dog, movement. 

Kazimir Malevich. Motion, cubism. Cubo-Futurism. Black Square and Suprematism Composition dude. suprematism.

cut paste, hand-done stuff.

Suprematism. Color & Emotion. primary elements. rejects pictorial. no narrative, just feeling. black square idea, red square. 1915.

Constructivism. Function is meaningful art according to constructivism. Vladimir Tatin. Rodchenko. El Lissitzky. Art should serve the new communist society.

abstract painting.... Kandinsky.

El Lissitzky. proum, an acronym. building. intersections, spacial, illusions. Beat the whites with the red wedge. Bolshevik is the red wedge. Conservatives is the white. 

The Isms of art... attempts to decode all of the isms. German, French, and English separated with big thick black bars. Grid system layout. Modern aesthetic. sans-serif typography.