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Tag Archives: Bauhaus Art
kafka: a gate made only for you
Visions that contained all the dark terrors that haunt today’s world. The interplay of shapes and shadows of the modern world in a dance with the emptiness of nihilism, the spirit of old ghettos and of vast , unapproachable and … Continue reading
fathers and sons: leaving traces
It was a school that combined crafts and fine arts, and conceptually followed a basic idea that mass-production was reconcilable with individual artistic spirit. Founded at Weimar in 1919, Bauhaus concepts of art were particularly influenced by Modernism. That is, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Arnold Schoenberg, Bauhaus Art, Bertolt Brecht, Clement Greenberg, Georges Braque, Henri Rousseau, Josef Albers, Lyonel Feininger, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Stephane Mallarme, t.lux feininger, Walter Benjamin, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky
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Innocent magic
Paul Klee had the kind of innocent magic that could evoke a wistful human face from the simplest of geometric forms. In “Senecio” he does it with circles for head and eyes, a straight line to suggest a nose, and … Continue reading
good vibrations: still cool after all these years
From the Bauhaus to your house… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): In the pantheon of graphic design professionals, there are very very few who have reached the levels occupied by Ivan Chermayeff. He’s considered one of the grand masters of 20th century … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged 23 envelope, Bauhaus Art, bauhaus design, Chris Burden, david carson, ed big daddy roth, ed roth, genesis p. orridge, Ivan Chermayeff, Jamie Reid, phase 2, Pushpin design, pushpin studios, robert brownjohn, Robert Williams, survival research laboratories, tom geismar, von dutch, Walter Gropius
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WEIMAR REPUBLIC and the UNCANNY “SECOND SIGHT”
“A member asked what was the ethos of German Expressionism, suggesting it was ‘cultural despair’. The speaker reiterated his title phrase: ‘an explosive cocktail of cultural despair and political instability’, adding that the German character seemed almost morbid in its … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alma Mahler, Bauhaus Art, Bertolt Brecht, Carl Zuckermayer, Chris Hedges, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Emil Jannings, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Grosz, George J.W. Goodman, Heinrich Mann, Howard Buffet, James Turk, Josef Albers, Kurt Weill, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Louis Proyect, Lyonel Feininger, Marianne Faithfull, Marlene Dietrich, Max Beckmann, Noam Chomsky, Otto Dix, Paul Gough, Paul Klee, Peter Rex Valentine, Richard Nixon, Rosa Luxemburg, Seth Taylor, Walter Gropius, Warren Buffet, Wassily Kandinsky
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Bauhaus Art: If You're Happy When You're Gassed Raise Your Arm Heil! Heil!
The Bauhaus movement was an artistic and architectural project that existed in Germany between 1919-1933.It occurred during the Weimar Republic. Its originator, Walter Gropius, was an architecht and admirer of Frank Lloyd Wright.Gropius was responsible for the founding of the … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
Tagged Bauhaus Art, Degenerate Art, Klee, Mark Jenkins, Theodore Adorno, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky
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