Bauhaus

WALTER CRANE | ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT, THE UNITED KINGDOM The Arts and Crafts movement originated in England, around the second part of the 19th century, and was birthed out of a few artists’ revulsion towards the industrialisation of the world– and consequently, art– around them. The Industrial Revolution and its mass-machinery had brought efficiency into the art-making realm, but had sacrificed craftsmanship and beauty in the process. This caused much dissatisfaction launched a movement that…

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky: Biography Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. He was born in Moscow, the Russian empire on 16 December 1866. He is one of the first artist to create an abstract piece. During his youth (1866-1896), The Metamorphosis: Kandinsky graduated from grekov Odessa art school. Before he focused on art, he was studying law and economics in the University of Moscow, which he later gave up at the age of 30. Kandinsky’s enthusiasm in colour…

intellectual groups of berlin. Through this he met his future wife Ada Bruhn and they went on to get married in 1913, sadly his marriage didn’t even last a decade. The “Born Ludwig Mies, after his divorce, he changed his name to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe” (Bauhaus et al., 2016). Another thing Ludwig did in 1913 was set up his own architecture office just before the war, however when the war started in 1914 Ludwig spent this time in a number of places such as Berlin, Frankfurt and Rumania. After…

By 1933, the Nazis seized power, storm troopers in Berlin invaded the Bauhaus and it closed and never reopened. In his work “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”; “Generally speaking, color is a power which directly influences the soul. Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with the strings.…

The typeface of ABC is a simple geometric design that appeared to be an inspiration of the Bauhaus school in the 1920s. This logo is an example of simplicity and the use of color identify as the formality in his design creation. In the 1986, Paul Rand and Steve Jobs were collaborating for the NeXT, Inc. but Rand created this logo, which consists…

improvisation 28 from kandinsky applied German expressionism, Futurism, Bauhaus, and applied ideas into art Jackson Pollock influential american painter into abstract expressionism - big paintings speaks of the expansion of the American West - imperial conquests - individualism, universality Clement Greenberg elaborated on “kitsch”…

Modernism and Modernisms - Semester 1 The modernist building that I will be discussing in this essay is the Barcelona Pavilion. The Modern Period began from the late 19th Century all the way to early 20th Century. “Modernism, in the arts, a radical break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression.” This was an era defined by industrialisation and social change after World War 2. Paul Greenhalgh using a postmodern perspective describes modernity as “a set of ideas and…

However in 1933, just 11 years later, the Nazis seized power shutting down the Bauhaus. Wassily then moved to an apartment in Paris, France where he created his works in a living-room studio. In 1937 “he and other artists were featured in the “Degenerate Art Exhibition” in Munich.” Many people came to the exhibition; however 57 of his…

De Stijl’s most outstanding painter was Mondrian, whose art was rooted in the mystical ideas of Theosophy. Although influenced by his contact with Analytical Cubism in Paris before 1914, Mondrian thought that it had fallen short of its goal by not having developed toward pure abstraction, or, as he put it, “the expression of pure plastics” (which he later called Neoplasticism). In his search for an art of clarity and order that would also express his religious and philosophical beliefs, Mondrian…

Notable post-punk groups that foreshadowed this genre are Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, and Joy Division. The goth subculture has survived social influences much longer than others of the same era, and has continued to diversify. Its imagery and cultural tendencies indicate influences from the 19th century Gothic literature along with…