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The kingdom of colors has within it multidimensional possibilities only partly to be reduced to simple order. Each individual color is a universe in itself.- Johannes Itten
The Bauhaus, “building a house,” was arguably the single most influential modernist art school of the 20th century. Its approach to teaching, and to the relationship between art, society, and technology, had a major impact both in Europe and in the United States long after its closure under Nazi pressure in 1933. (reference)
The school became famous for its approach to design, which attempted to unify individual artistic vision with the principles of mass production and emphasis on function. Along with the doctrine of functionalism, the Bauhaus initiated the conceptual understanding of architecture and design. (Wikipedia). The course explored theories of color and form, principles of composition, studies of materiality, exercises in life drawing, and visual analysis. It was workshop and apprentice focused, similar to Professional-Technical Courses today! Building figured prominently at the center of the Bauhaus curricular diagram. Ahead of its time, the school allowed women to attend, although they were often put in feminine arts like weaving and ceramics. All of these movements sought to level the distinction between the fine and applied arts, and to reunite creativity and manufacturing. The stress on experiment and problem-solving which characterized the Bauhaus's approach to teaching has proved to be enormously influential on contemporary art education. It has led to the rethinking of the "fine arts" as the "visual arts", and to a reconceptualization of the artistic process as more akin to a research science than to a humanities subject such as literature or history. |
The singularity of the circle suggests the holistic nature of a Bauhaus education, in which individual students representing diverse disciplinary backgrounds were to come together in pursuit of a shared mission to reform art, design, and society.
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I wish this Bauhaus still existed because I would definitely attend it. I love concepts in sacred geometry like spirals/fibonacci and squares within squares. I also resonate with the idea that each color is a universe in of itself. Plus, the concept that art is an experiment and experience; I truly love this idea because it's not just something you stick on your wall...it's the type of art I like to create with the ultimate canvas: my life.
Always remember the 3F's : "form follows function” |