- Formed in Wiemar (1919)
- Relocated to Bessau (1925)
- Closed in Berlin (1933)
Bauhaus Dessau
The Bauhaus sought to combine art, craft,
and technology to reach a common goal and
a common vision of a purer form of design
without unnecessary decoration. It was
practical, functional, clean.
Josef Albers - Homage of the Square
The Bauhaus sought to combine art, craft,
and technology to reach a common goal and
a common vision of a purer form of design
without unnecessary decoration. It was
practical, functional, clean.
Paul Klee
This is Klee’s now quite famous opening line.
It’s that very simple idea that if you move a point, you get a line, and if move the line you get a plane. Just that basic understanding gives you three kinds of mark-marking.
Bauhaus Curriculum - Art into Industry
Walter Gropius
“Architects, painters, sculptors, we must all return to crafts!
For there is no such thing as “professional art”. There is no
essential difference between the artist and the craftsman.
The artist is an exalted craftsman. By the grace of Heaven
and in rare moments of inspiration which transcend the
will, art may unconsciously blossom from the labour of his
hand, but a base in handicrafts is essential to every artist.
It is there that the original source of creativity lies."
Wassily Kandinsky - Triangle, Circle, Square - A psychology test
Frances Butler
Frances Butlers Reason for the choice of colour
The Triangle = Yellow, because it is the most spiky
shape, the least bulky, the lightest. This shape is
the dancer, the sparkler.
The Circle = Red, because it is the punctum, the
point, the heart of the matter, and hearts are red.
The center, in Western culture, is the palace of
vitality, and vitality is bloody.
The Square = Blue, or true blue. The stability of the
specialized consciousness which we have
developed since Euclid depends on the square, in a
recessive color, as befits the shape that is the
foundation, the support of all later shapes and
ideas.
My Theory behind the shapes and colours
- Triangle - Red - I would give the triangle the colour red. The reason for this is because red connotes danger and to me being pointy it signals danger and its warning you about something.
- Square - Blue - Blue for the square, because the square is the biggest of them all, and blue shows purity and leadership, therefore it should be the true blue of the group.
- Circle - Yellow - Yellow for the circle because it it is the smoothest of them all. Yellow connotes sunshine and being round it reflects on the sun, rising up high above all.