Day 9

Bauhaus - 14 years, 33 staff, 1250 students

utopian desire

first location-looking for union of art and craft

second location-start designing for industry

third location-just doesn’t work

Most important people of Bauhaus:

Paul Klee

Moholy Nagy

Jahannas Itten

Herbert Bayer

Kandinsky

Mies van der Rohe

Walter Groupus 

Oscar Schlemmer

Joseph Albers

Groupus - first director from 1919  to 1928

solder of WWI

trained as architect

start school to ‘tame’ new technology

manifesto on wood print of cathedral

allegory for total work of art

painting

sculpture

architecture

Council of Masters

Garhard Marks

sculpture/pottery shop

Lyonel Feringer

painting

Johannes Itten

preliminary courses

Itten

creator of foundation classes at colleges

tries to reaes each person’s individual ability

was very religious

believed in understanding material fully

Moholy Nagy - Hungarian constructionist

experiments with lots of theories

Itten’s replacement

experiments with type and illustration

looks to unify type and photo

creates type-o-photo

photo plastects- photo colleagues

Herbert Bayer - gives un universal alphabet with no capitals

Van der Role - 3rd president of the school

attempts to hold out in Berlin but closes 8, 1933

time line

type-o-photo

photo gram

photo plastec

Jan Tschichold - hand lettered ad for fair

studied callegraphy

goes to Bauhaus expo at 22

write paper exploring new type

writes book about new type

the aim of every typographic work to be the delivery of a message in the shortest most efficient manner

harassed by Nazi

arrested for book

released after 6 weeks

leaves country

Thoughts

The class really is changing it’s mood. We are concentrating so much on the people now, only glancing at events - it’s odd. 

I’m glad that we now have a projector that works. For a while we just talked about the movie we watched last class. Everyone was saying how much they were upset by it, how some even cried! Personally, I found it a bit boring. The acting was boring and I didn’t really care for the characters so it was hard to connect.

Test next week.

Day 8

NOTES

watch the rest of Romancing the Revolution

Surprematist - pure color

Kandinsky - pioneer of abstraction

El Lissizty - influences constructionist

influences Bauhaus

uses simple shapes and colors

develops prouns - projects for an establishment of a new art

writes book “-Isums of Art”

develops mathematical page system

book uses

san-serif type

asymmetrical balance

active white space

grid system

Eisenstien - Russian filmmaker (1925)

montage becomes big in cinema

Alexander Radchencky - in art school from 1910-1914

finishes with paint after ‘Pure Red, Yellow, and Blue’

goes to constructionist

Russian Avant Guard artistes used as pawn in Revolution

If it’s product, it’s good

DeStil : 1917-1931

biased on utopian approach and functionalism

uses black, white, and primary colors

sought to express mathematical structure to the universe and universal harmony

best known member: Piet Mondreal

DADA - why should art make sense if the world doesn’t?

applied to

  architecture

furniture

sculpture

painting

family

President: Theo Van Dosburg (dies 1931)

embraces it to destroy it

Thoughts

This is a very weird time period for art. It’s defiantly a time that I wouldn’t want to be it - and the fact that there are wars going on. Not that I really know what type of art period we’re in now.

The movies are very depressing, though I guess that Russia was a depressing country. It’s odd learning more about history events rather than something like the evolution of type that we did earlier. Still, both styles of ‘art history’ isn’t like the one that I got use to last year at Moore College. 

I’m starting to accept all of it, but I’m still not all that interested of any point other than doing well on the next test. 

Question

If the one side losses the projector can we turn the lights up a bit so people who take real notes can see.

Day 7

*Sorry for the different format, PCs are horrible.*


Notes
Secession - art nouvo in Austra
youth movement in relatiation to "elders" way of life
had their own magazine
60's rock posters based off of their work
they try to be new, but the past can be seen in their work
Peter Barrins
the the picture of the kiss
first to use running san-serif type
was a professor and influanced by another
became obsessed with circles and squares
later works for AEG and creates the idea of corperate idenities
Building created to follow a form
Lucan Bernard - evalution of posters
title
flat plane
graphic
placa - poster paint
placa shtil - poster style
WWI - first mecienized war
poster propaganda starts with WWI
Axis Powers
abstract
stunning
graphic
had symbolism
Allies
Uncle Sam
illustration
spoon feed
Wudwig Hohlwien
poster designer
not well know since  was on axis side
Hitler didn't like axis power posters designs. Thought people were too dumb.
Cubisum comes into play in painting and poster design
A.M. Kassander
brings geometry and cubism design
most known for travel posters
Dobonnet posters
DADA - idea that nothing makes sense so why should art
De Shtil - we need to find a system. What is the math of art?
Suprenatism - art for arts sake
Constructionism - art must have function
Aveat Guard - "out there" artist
Thinistashia - being able to hear color
watch movie: Romance with Revolution


Thoughts
We spent most of the night looking at different posters. The Advertising students got very happy that we were finally starting to get into their department more. The poster "The Kiss" I find interesting. It makes you think. I also feel that way about the axis power posters. It's fun to try finding their hidden meanings. Our posters on the other hand were a bit lame in comparison. Sure, the illustration was good, some of my favorite paintings were used for those posters. 
The movie we didn't get too into. It looks like it won't be horrible, so thanks, but still not something I would expect everyone to be sitting on the edge of their seats for.


Question
Ringling offers two different math classes, one that focuses on Statistis and one on Geometry. It is also possible for students to take a class at their local college in the summer. Based on history of all this, would you recomend taking a geometry or an algebra class?