Class 2.24

Key points from tonight's lecture:

• De Stijl - Formalism exemplified - metaphysics and technology meet
• Philosophy of de Stijl - Visual forms developed from Mondrian’s paintings
• Everyday objects would be elevated to the level of art through careful application of the principals
• De Stijl did not survive after Van Doesburg’s death in 1931 at the age of 47
• The Bauhaus in Germany
• We watched a video about the Bauhaus
• The Bauhaus was a revolutionary landmark in the world of graphic design
• The thought process behind the Bauhaus was “To solve design problems created by industrialization”
• Weimar and Dessau were the two locations of the Bauhaus
• Moholy Nagy - "Bauhaus Master"
• Bayer developed a widely imitated recipe for a modernist page
• White space was given a new role as interval and structural element
• Tschichold declared families of sans serif fonts the modernist type
  

In class tonight we learned a lot about the Bauhaus in Germany. We watched a video that talked about it and it was very interesting to see pictures of what it looked like, the work that was produced there, and the people that were involved with it. The work that came out the Bauhaus was very geometric and used basic shapes and straight lines. Their philosophy was to use design for production and industrial purposes. It was interesting to see that the type of furniture that came out of the Bauhaus would be popular today, but was too early for its time when it was created back in the 20's.