Bauhaus

Bauhaus


Herbet Bayer, Universal Bayer, 1925, (Foundation, 2017).

In anxieties about the soullessness of manufacturing and its products, and in fears about art's loss of purpose in society. Creativity and manufacturing were drifting apart, and the Bauhaus aimed to unite them once again, rejuvenating design for everyday life (Foundation, 2017) This design employs a minimal, sans-serf typeface. Instead of having two alphabets, one uppercase and one lowercase, Bayer reduced the typeface to only lowercase letters(Foundation, 2017). 

Joseph Albers, Homage to the Square: Dissolving/Vanishing, 1951, (Foundation, 2017)

Joseph Albers was one of the Bauhaus's contemporary artists. This artwork demonstrates Albers systematic approach to investigating the optical effects of colors. Albers explored how colors change depending on their placement within the composition. Although the series was created several years after the Bauhaus movement, the work is typical of the experimental, modernist approach to form and color that underpinned Bauhaus teaching (Foundation, 2017).

Sources consulted


Foundation, T. A. S., 2017. Bauhaus. [Online]
Available at: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-bauhaus.htm
[Accessed 04 September]

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Impressionism and Post Impressionism

Image
Impressionism Claude Monet,  Vetheuil in the Fog, 1879. (Foundation, 2017). Impressionism can be considered the first distinctly modern movement in painting.  Its originators were artists who rejected the official, government-sanctioned exhibitions, or salons , and were consequently shunned by powerful academic art institutions.  The Impressionists loosened their brushwork and lightened their palettes to include pure, intense colors. They abandoned traditional linear perspective and avoided the clarity of form that had previously served to distinguish the more important elements of a picture from the lesser ones (Foundation, 2017).  Post Impressionism Georges Seurat,  Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1886. (Foundation, 2017).  Sources Consulted Foundation, T. A. S., 2017. Impressionism . [Online] Available at: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-impressionism.htm [Accessed 10 September] Foundation, T. A. S., 2017. Post Impressionism . [O
Read more

Futurism

Image
Futurism Giacomo Balla, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912 (Foundation, 2017) The artists part of the Futurism movement explored every medium of art which included painting, sculpture, poetry, theater, music, architecture and even gastronomy (contributors, 2017). Futurism celebrated advanced technology and urban modernity. Artists part of this movement always tried to destroy older forms of culture and to show the uniqueness of the modern life (Foundation, 2017).  Giacomo Balla was interested in 'chrono-photography' this was a vintage technique where movement is shown across a certain amount of frames. This encouraged Balla to find new ways of showing movement in painting. The work shows a woman walking a small black dog, the movement collapsed into a single instant which showed a close up of the feet, the way he shows movement is by combining opaque and semi-transparent shapes   (Foundation, 2017). Eugene Ivanov, Untitled, 2002 (Ivanov, 2002) This artwo
Read more

Constructivism

Image
Constructivism Vladimir Tatlin, Design for the Monument the Third International, 1920. (Foundation, 2017). Constructivism was the last and most influential modern art movement to flourish in Russia in the 20th century.  It acquired thoughts from Cubism, suprematism and Futurism, in any case at its heart might have been a truly new approach with making objects, one which looked for to abrogate those universal aesthetic worry with composition, Furthermore replaceability it for 'construction (Foundation, 2017). Justuno, Untitled, n.d. (Cargocollective.com, 2017) Constructivism's concept and style is still used widely today because of the sharp colors and lines with the unique style that differs so widely from many other types of work. A wide variety of artist continue to carry out constructivism in modern day times.  It still is a very popular style used in propaganda today used predominately by Shepard Fairy.  Sources consulted Foundation, T. A. S., 20
Read more