This week lecture is an interesting one as it points out the aspect of Bauhaus. splitting it down into three periods as mentioned by Desmond into Weimar, Dessau and lastly in Berlin.  Curiosity got the better of me as I went to further research onto why there were the three periods of Bauhaus. During the first phase, it was deemed that the art direction taught were too liberal by the community in Weimar, which causes the shift to Dessau, following in the period of the time in Dessau, the rise of the Nazis political party forced them to relocate to Berlin as the school does not share the same idealism of Nazism. However it did not get to reestablish in Berlin mainly due to the Nazis faction taking over the whole of Germany and Germany were involved in World War 2.

Moving towards the concept of Bauhaus, it has the curriculum of a basic foundation year where everyone get to study and learn every process of arts and crafts before transitioning and specialising in the years. This is very similar to the concept of ADM where we get to learn every different aspect back in foundation year from sketches, graphic to product making. Personally I felt that it was a good experience as we get to understand and touch on different aspect of the art so that we are able to view art from the view of a maker and not an end user.

The Bauhaus period was also largely linked towards war propaganda based on the posters that were shown in class. For example,

This posters touches on the aspect of image cropping method derived from Laszlo Moholy-nagy to show the plane wing and the use of colour wheel to show the complimentary colours s derived from Jan Tschichold.

In today’s perspective, we can see how Bauhaus influence has left a big impact on our art scene with the usage of colour wheel theory and image cropping to show the main message of the poster.

References

Unknown. 2011.  The Three Locations of Bauhaus. Retrieved from http://www.designhistory.org/Bauhaus_pages/BauhausLocations.html