BAUHAUS
Buahaus was a revolutionary art school in Berlin, founded in 1919 but unfortunately closed in 1933 by the Nazis. The school produced famous designers and teachers such as Marcel Breur who designed the wassily chair, Joost Schmidt who made a poster for Bauhaus and Wilhem Wagenfield who designed stacking containers.
What was significant about this school is that it was the first of its kind and let its students do whatever they wanted and could design as well as train to be craftsmen. It started modernism, a categorization of shifting away from traditional forms of expression in arts and literature, as well as innovating forms of expression that signaled the departure of existing styles of late nineteenth and twentieth century. It strive'd to combine art, craft and technology to reach a common goal and vision of purer form without unnecessary decoration. It was practical, functional and clean.
Wassily Kandinski whom went to Bauhaus circulated a questionnaire asking people to fill in a triangle, square and circle with the primary colours red, yellow and blue. He did this to find a universal correspondence between form and colour. He coloured the square red, triangle yellow and the circle blue. I was given the task to assign colours myself. I think that the triangle should be yellow, square blue and circle red. I asked four other people, two of which said the same as me. When I asked them why they did not really know why, they simply said it just felt/looked right and I agree. The third person said a blue triangle, yellow square and red circle because a lot of circular things are red for example road signs which I also thought of when selecting my colours. The fourth person said a red triangle, yellow circle and blue square which is very different to everyone else. Interestingly no one got the same as Wassily which is interesting as everybody disagreed which could lead you to think his theory is not correct or accurate.
What was significant about this school is that it was the first of its kind and let its students do whatever they wanted and could design as well as train to be craftsmen. It started modernism, a categorization of shifting away from traditional forms of expression in arts and literature, as well as innovating forms of expression that signaled the departure of existing styles of late nineteenth and twentieth century. It strive'd to combine art, craft and technology to reach a common goal and vision of purer form without unnecessary decoration. It was practical, functional and clean.
Wassily Kandinski whom went to Bauhaus circulated a questionnaire asking people to fill in a triangle, square and circle with the primary colours red, yellow and blue. He did this to find a universal correspondence between form and colour. He coloured the square red, triangle yellow and the circle blue. I was given the task to assign colours myself. I think that the triangle should be yellow, square blue and circle red. I asked four other people, two of which said the same as me. When I asked them why they did not really know why, they simply said it just felt/looked right and I agree. The third person said a blue triangle, yellow square and red circle because a lot of circular things are red for example road signs which I also thought of when selecting my colours. The fourth person said a red triangle, yellow circle and blue square which is very different to everyone else. Interestingly no one got the same as Wassily which is interesting as everybody disagreed which could lead you to think his theory is not correct or accurate.
