Bauhaus

• Who founded Bauhaus?

  German architect, Walter Gropius
• What is Bauhaus's main objective?

  To reimagine the material world, to reflect the unity

  of all the arts
• What elements did Bauhaus combine?

  Fine arts and Design education
• What was Bauhaus's aim?

  Bring art back in contact with everyday life
• What does Bauhaus stand for?

  (Bau) in German means building and (Haus) means house
• Who were the Bauhaus teachers?

  1. Wassily Kandinsky
  2. Paul Klee
  3. Laslo Moholy-Nagy
  4. Josef Albers
• Who is Paul Klee?

  Swiss painter, was a teacher in Bauhaus.

  In his paintings he saw analogies between music and visual art.
• List some of Paul Klee's paintings?

  1. With the green square
  2. Blue Night
  3. Death and Fire
• How were Paul Klee's painting like?

  1. Fantastic
  2. Childlike
  3. Witty
• What frequently appear in Paul Klee's works?

  1. Arrows
  2. Letters
  3. Musical Notations
  4. Ancient Hieroglyphics
  5. Black lines standing in for a person or object
• What is the primary medium of pictorial language in Josef Albers' eyes?

  Color, rather than form.
• List some of Alberts's accomplishments?

  1. His book 'Interaction of Color'
  2. His series 'Homage to the Square'
• What did Albers teach at Black Mountain College?

  The explorations of optical illusions and arrangements of lines that generated conflict between perception and cognition
• Homage to the Squares?

  over 1000 pieces all of the same geometrical shape, to experiment with the relativity of color, how it changes through:

  1. Juxtaposition
  2. placement
  3. interaction with other colors
  4. generating the illusion of attraction
  5. resistance
  6. weight
  7. movement.
• List some of Josef Albers's works?

  1. Homage to the squares
  2. Shrine
  3. Manhattan
• What is Color in Josef Albers's eyes?

  Primary medium of pictorial language