History of Graphic Design........Day 9

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!!!!!