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Session 24 - Coggle Diagram
Session 24
Bauhaus
Considered in the western world, the school of design. Linked to the Werkbund, its program presented in 1919. Wanted to reimagine the material world to reflect the unity of all arts. Gesamstkunstwerk: How everything is connected.
Don’t look at the past, and look at present and future. Sure that he could create artisans, artists, to create useful and beautiful objects. Arts and Crafts school founded by Henry Van de Velde, Behrens, Reich, all connected to Bauhaus
Guilds and Industry
• Connecting them together, he’s trying to build a new cultural model.
• Connects with loos, where form follows function
• Gropius, an artistic director
Curriculum
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• Preliminary course, the professors are all artists
Specific points
o Materials, Color theory, Formal relationships, specialized studies
o Material studies: Johannes Itten, Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers
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Workshops
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• Metal (1919- 1933): Contemporary shapes, even hundred years later, we can still connect to them
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• Joinery (1919 – 1933): Breuer, Gropius, Itten
• Sculpture (1919 – 1930): J. Itten, Schlemmer
• Weaving (1919 – 1933): Guntha, Anni Albers, Lilly Reich
• Wall painting (1920 – 1933): Kandinsky, Itten
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Relocation
• Bauhaus moved to Dessau, where they were able to build a school for themselves.
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New directors
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• Meyer comes, a leftist artist, gets conflicts with the Sao
• Meis Van der Rohe, a right wing, had to get control.
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Closing
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• Even if Nazis tired to kill modernity, it still couldn’t go away, as it was already stuck in people’s minds.
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Vkhutemas in Moscow
Revolition
o New soviet state, trying to build new ideas and they needed skilled designers to build this new idea of a country. Vhetumas as an evolution
o Founded in 1920
Politics of Design
o To prepare master artists of the highest qualification of industry and builders and managers for professional-technical education
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• Curriculum
o Identified that they needed a preliminary course, lasting for two years
o Dived into different civilizations
o School was not only teaching but was the center of constructivism, rationalism, and suprematism.
o First time space was taught as a subject
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Connections
Bauhaus connects with arts and crafts movement, as they used craftsmen and they value equality between craftsmen and artists, same as the movement.
Guilds connects with bauhaus since craftsmen and artists worked together to create bauhaus projects.
Guilds then connects with arts and crafts movement as the first movement for guilds called the Arts Workers' Guild was created in the arts and crafts movement.
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