133 BAUHAUS

Cards (100)

  • Who founded the Bauhaus?
    Walter Gropius
  • Walter Gropius believed that the old order of _______ and _______ had led Germany into the catastrophic war.
    aristocracy and corruption
  • A designer should strive for the highest ________ and ________
    quality and craftsmanship
  • The Bauhaus adopts _______ and ________.
    perfect geometric forms,highly refined typography
  • TRUE OR FALSE: The Bauhaus movement is against the concept of "less is more".
    FALSE
  • The phrase "_________" emphasizes that the design of something should be functional, and never decorative.
    FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION
  • TRUE OR FALSE: Typography has a clear hierarchy.
    TRUE
  • Good design manufactured with mass production ensured ______ and _______.
    equality and harmony
  • What was the central point where the old world ended and the new world began?
    The Bauhaus
  • Graphic design at the Bauhaus was ______ and lacked any unnecessary decoration or elements.
    minimal
  • The Bauhaus typography is characterized as ______ and ______ with ________.
    bold and clear with simple sans serif fonts
  • Bauhaus photography moved away from a static image taken at eye-level, and shifted to a ________.
    cinematic approach
  • In Bauhaus photography, the camera should be placed at a ________ or from the ground up.
    bird's eye view
  • TRUE OR FALSE: Colors used in the Bauhaus were universal and not attached to any specific political larty or nationality.
    TRUE
  • Who were the two peofessors that taught foundation classes in color and shape?
    Johannes Itten, Paul Klee
  • The Nazi party shut the Bauhaus school down, and those in charge of the faculty contracts deemed the work to be ______ and _______.
    Bolshevik and degenerate
  • TRUE OR FALSE: Today, the public does not expect a product to be functional.
    FALSE, (The public expects*)
  • The public demands graphic design to be clear and legible, and mistrusts work that is too _____, ______, or hard to understand.
    elaborate, ornamental
  • What design was revolutionary for its day?
    Bauhaus design
  • What sought to combine the fine arts with crafts by closing the schism between art and industry?
    Bauhaus
  • How did the Bauhaus seek to combine fine arts with crafts?
    By closing the schism between art and industry.
  • Craftsmanship includes disciplines like ______ or ______
    painting, woodworking
  • TRUE OR FALSE: Fine arts (such as design and architecture) were once routinely held in higher regard than craftsmanship.
    TRUE
  • A broad variety of visual arts came under the Bauhaus design banner and were merged with _______ to create a utopian design philosophy.
    workmanship
  • A variety of visual arts under the Bauhaus design banner were merged with workmanship to create what?
    A utopian design philosophy based on celebrating the aesthetic with the practical.
  • TRUE OR FALSE: Almost 100 years after its inception, the Bauhaus still remains a highly influential force in design and beyond.
    TRUE
  • Bauhaus epitomizes the tenets of German design and demonstrates what's possible when designers combine ______ and _______.
    minimalism and mass production
  • The legacy of the Bauhaus is seen in everything from ________ to ________.
    glorius typefaces and web designs to buildings and essential design principles
  • The origin of the Bauhaus movement can be traced back to one school: the German art school of the same name called _________
    Staatliches Bauhaus
  • The Bauhaus school was only in operation from years ______ to ______.
    1919 to 1933
  • a German architect who was widely seen as one of the trailblazing members of modernist architecture
    Walter Gropius
  • Who founded the Bauhaus school?
    Walter Gropius
  • the Bauhaus school literally translates to ________
    construction house
  • TRUE OR FALSE: The Bauhaus school had an architecture department in its early years.
    FALSE (it did not have an architecture department)
  • Although the Bauhaus school did not have an architecture department during its early years, it profoundly influenced _______, ________, ________, and _______.
    modern design,modernist architecture,art,architectural and design instruction
  • Walter Gropius was a director from ______ to ______ (years).
    1919 to 1928
  • Walter Gropius was an architect with an international reputation for factory designs using ______ and _______ in new ways.
    Glass and steel
  • Gropius sought a new unity of ______ and ______.
    art and technology
  • Gropius believed that ______.
    Form follows function.
  • Over the course of its short life, the school and its design philosophies existed in three cities, namely ______, ______, and ______.
    Weimar (1919 to 1925),Dessau (1925 to 1932),Berlin (1933 to 1933)