3/30/11

Post world war one looking for utopian ideas.
Bauhaus 1919-1933
1919-1925 Weimar
1923 first public exhibition
1924 letter of resignation
1925-1932 Dessau
!928 Groupius replaced Meyer
1930 Meyer replaced by van der Rohne
1932-1933 Berlin

BAUHAUS BROKEN WINGS
- exhibition cancelled
- students put up posters for exhibition any way
- students protest
- Nazis come and wreck ever thing

comes about in a pragmatic sort of way.
Germany was in wreck
Walter Groupius first director of the Bauhaus 1919-1928
2nd wife was loose. she had thing for artist
wants to go back to the old days
new social unity
PEOPLE BELIEVED in it.
Council of masters
Gerhard Marks- sculpture/pottery
Lyonel

based on each students creative possibilities
Core foundation classes
study based on contrast
looked at old masters work.
scientific in a way of looking at things
GRopist leaves Bauhaus in 1923 because it leaves the medievalism an hads to the desgin thinking . it is an evolving entity
poster cubism, but most of all the Baushaus leaving the hand craft and more about tech, and design. public school.
1923 first public exhibition of the Beahaus
mohly Nagy hungarian, contrustivst resens, photo montage.
tire ad, letter forms functioning as art and communication. type o photo one unified comp
see's photo replaceing painting.
Photo grams, first one to do that.
photo plastic- a new pictural thing.
Bauhaus stairs Oskar Schiemmer 1932

great stress on textures
build 3d structures

THe students of the Beahaus are crazy, like i would love to hang out with those guys back than. The old guy from the video with the crazy hair, man I bet he was a ladies killa. School would of been fun with those kids, bro'an out durring the day durring crazy art classes and than tearing up the town. I guess not a lot has changed seeing that we still do that.