What I think I know about The Bauhaus
-The Bauhaus is a group of designers in Germany that are very skilled in graphic arts. They used very
rectilinear forms and curvilinear figures. They also used asymmetry in a lot of their works based on
squares and circles.
Bauhaus
1919-1925 Weimar
1923 First Public Exhibition
1924 Letter of resignation
1925-1932 Dessau
1928 Groupius replaced by Meyer
1930 Meyer replaced by van der Rohe
1932-1933 Berlin
Bauhaus: Broken Wings
-this film is based on the final days of the Bauhaus
Walter Groupius
-first director of the Bauhaus
-from 1919-1928
-he thought that the Bauhaus showed go back to the old days
-it was an institution people really learned from and were inspired by
-going on during De Stejl
Council of Masters
-Gerhard Marks: Sculpture / Pottery Shop
-Lyonel Feringer: Painting
-Johannes Itten: Foundation / CORE Studies
Thoughts for Bauhaus
-Itten wanted to bring out each students individual talent and creative skill
-physical understanding of materials
-underlined all of the visual arts
-Bauhaus is a growing entity
-1923 is first public exhibition of Bauhaus
Lazlo Moholy-Nayj
-scientologist
-does a lot of
-Hungarian Constructivist
-uses photography for design
Typophoto
-letterform mixed with photography and graphic design
Photoplastic
Back to Bauhaus Timeline
-due to issues with the city the Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau
-in Dessau students were designing for industry
-they did away with serifs
-experimented with contrast and hierarchy
-used bars, lines, and type for exploration
-experimented with flushing to the left and raging to the right
Today in class we really got into the Bauhaus. We saw the development how the Bauhaus rose and fell. I find it really disappointing that the Bauhaus only lasted for 14 years because it is really one of my favorite periods. In a way, we are learning the Bauhaus way because we are learning the fundamentals of art before we go into our majors just like the Bauhaus. We also watched a movie that shows the end of the Bauhaus and a movie on the Bauhaus' brief history. Definitely a great class day!!!!!
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
History of Graphic Design............Day 8
Today seems like a pretty short day. We are going to be finishing up learning about Russian designers and the Avant Garde then next week we have our second quiz.
-Lazzitski
-USSR Poster
-more constructivist
-it has functionality
-it has a purpose for being made
-Eisenstein
-Battleship Potemkin
-this film shows a development in montages in cinema
-experimentation of scene cutting
-Alexander Rodchanko
-born in 1891
-goes to art school 1910-1914
-shows paintings in 5x5 show in Moscow
-pure red painting
-pure yellow painting
-pure blue painting
-1932 Stalin was in power and abolished the art world in Russia during his rule as Zhar
-De Stijl (The Style)
-movement that was developed in the Netherlands
-it established a utopian version of esthetic
-based around functionality
-Characteristics
-rectilinear planes
-no surface textures/pure hue
-universal history in art
-Piet Mondrian
-most famous De Stijl member
-Theo Van Doesburg
-leader, founder, and developer of De Stijl
-asymmetrical compositions were coming into play with some of Doesburg's work
-brings modernism into modernist work
So today was a pretty short day. I can definitely see how graphic design is developing through our learning. We saw some of Lazzitski's and other designers student work which was very similar to some of the work we have been doing in school now. This is definitely proof that we also have the potential to become just as great and innovative designers as they were. We went into understanding De Stijl which I feel is a lot of what I have been into doing lately, asymmetrical design. The more and we talk and learn in this class I see that we are definitely seeing a connection from then to now.
-Lazzitski
-USSR Poster
-more constructivist
-it has functionality
-it has a purpose for being made
-Eisenstein
-Battleship Potemkin
-this film shows a development in montages in cinema
-experimentation of scene cutting
-Alexander Rodchanko
-born in 1891
-goes to art school 1910-1914
-shows paintings in 5x5 show in Moscow
-pure red painting
-pure yellow painting
-pure blue painting
-1932 Stalin was in power and abolished the art world in Russia during his rule as Zhar
-De Stijl (The Style)
-movement that was developed in the Netherlands
-it established a utopian version of esthetic
-based around functionality
-Characteristics
-rectilinear planes
-no surface textures/pure hue
-universal history in art
-Piet Mondrian
-most famous De Stijl member
-Theo Van Doesburg
-leader, founder, and developer of De Stijl
-asymmetrical compositions were coming into play with some of Doesburg's work
-brings modernism into modernist work
So today was a pretty short day. I can definitely see how graphic design is developing through our learning. We saw some of Lazzitski's and other designers student work which was very similar to some of the work we have been doing in school now. This is definitely proof that we also have the potential to become just as great and innovative designers as they were. We went into understanding De Stijl which I feel is a lot of what I have been into doing lately, asymmetrical design. The more and we talk and learn in this class I see that we are definitely seeing a connection from then to now.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
History of Graphic Design............Day 7
William Morris 1834-1896
-1860's-1920's Arts & Crafts Movement
-Ally graphic posters are more illustrative while Axes posters were more intelligent and graphic.
Hovine
-more figure ground play in some of his works
-always puts stamp on his works.
-Hitler writes Mein Compf in prison.
-Hitler thought the posters of world war II were wrong minded and should appeal to the lowest
common denominator.
-very graphic style.
Edward Kauffer
-Cubism is used as a design element in Kauffer's work.
A.M. Casander (Moron)
-very linear and cubic shapes.
-textured and very well relates between figure and typography.
Suprematists want a pure new way to express art.
Russian Avant Garde
-cubofuturism
-suprematism
-constructivism
Cubofuturism
-things that are cut out and made of more cut and paste style.
-they kind of used what they can get their hands on to create design.
Suprematism
-eliminates pictorial representation
-painting should be on a purely spiritual level.
-purely colors and simple shapes.
-1918 simple things such as an asymmetrical white square on an off white background.
Constructivism
-the only meaningful art has function and that, that has function, is art.
-Vladamere Tatiln
-Rodchenko
-Lissitzky- painter, designer, photographer, etc.
-they renounce art for arts sake.
-art should supply for the new communist party.
-Kandinsky is very abstract painter.
-El Lissitzky is more suprematist.
-PROUN
-building and architecture become very big during the time of the Bauhaus.
-Beat The Whites With The Red Wedge 1919.
-constructs a world of objects and structures society with an idea.
-page structure and grid come into play with book production.
-usefulness of sans serif type, useful whitespace, and structure.
Today in class we discussed a lot about different -isms and how they were very different and similar to each other. Mainly I think they were all different from each other. Cubofuturism was very angular and graphic which brought something new to the table of graphic design. Suprematism was very, very different in the since that it was almost minimalist with the since of only using color and shape to create a piece of artwork. Then we come to Constructivism where all of the spiritual levels from Suprematism was pretty much erased. We begin to see massive amounts of detail and we begin to use the since of that we should only create something that as utilitarian usage in the world. I think in the this new -ism we lose the since of what is truly art. Art is what we want it to be and by making what we want as art to only be something useful makes art lose its fun and originality.
How would I do good art for the proletariat? I think I would make art that was very simple to understand. I would want my work to be a graphically correct as possible but I think I wouldn't go so overboard with my work to the point that people don't understand what I'm trying to tell them.
-1860's-1920's Arts & Crafts Movement
-Ally graphic posters are more illustrative while Axes posters were more intelligent and graphic.
Hovine
-more figure ground play in some of his works
-always puts stamp on his works.
-Hitler writes Mein Compf in prison.
-Hitler thought the posters of world war II were wrong minded and should appeal to the lowest
common denominator.
-very graphic style.
Edward Kauffer
-Cubism is used as a design element in Kauffer's work.
A.M. Casander (Moron)
-very linear and cubic shapes.
-textured and very well relates between figure and typography.
Suprematists want a pure new way to express art.
Russian Avant Garde
-cubofuturism
-suprematism
-constructivism
Cubofuturism
-things that are cut out and made of more cut and paste style.
-they kind of used what they can get their hands on to create design.
Suprematism
-eliminates pictorial representation
-painting should be on a purely spiritual level.
-purely colors and simple shapes.
-1918 simple things such as an asymmetrical white square on an off white background.
Constructivism
-the only meaningful art has function and that, that has function, is art.
-Vladamere Tatiln
-Rodchenko
-Lissitzky- painter, designer, photographer, etc.
-they renounce art for arts sake.
-art should supply for the new communist party.
-Kandinsky is very abstract painter.
-El Lissitzky is more suprematist.
-PROUN
-building and architecture become very big during the time of the Bauhaus.
-Beat The Whites With The Red Wedge 1919.
-constructs a world of objects and structures society with an idea.
-page structure and grid come into play with book production.
-usefulness of sans serif type, useful whitespace, and structure.
Today in class we discussed a lot about different -isms and how they were very different and similar to each other. Mainly I think they were all different from each other. Cubofuturism was very angular and graphic which brought something new to the table of graphic design. Suprematism was very, very different in the since that it was almost minimalist with the since of only using color and shape to create a piece of artwork. Then we come to Constructivism where all of the spiritual levels from Suprematism was pretty much erased. We begin to see massive amounts of detail and we begin to use the since of that we should only create something that as utilitarian usage in the world. I think in the this new -ism we lose the since of what is truly art. Art is what we want it to be and by making what we want as art to only be something useful makes art lose its fun and originality.
How would I do good art for the proletariat? I think I would make art that was very simple to understand. I would want my work to be a graphically correct as possible but I think I wouldn't go so overboard with my work to the point that people don't understand what I'm trying to tell them.
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