Colour Theory And Cool Type
(1925-1930)
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Bauhaus Baby
The Bauhaus School of art and crafts was founded in Weimar, Germany in 1919. Walter Gropius was the first director of the school. He was a famous modern architect.
He was inspired by art nouveau in the early 1900s and he had the budding idea that crafts and industry must be intertwined. The school was designed to focus on that relationship. He wanted every student to reimagine the industrial world through the eyes of an artist. He felt that design must be used for mass production. The school focused on subjects such a: fine arts, wood work, weaving, printing, to theatre and the crafts, which were all taught by the Masters through a hands on experience. The Bauhaus school had an international impact on art and design. Its teaching style made its way through to America when the Nazis took over in 1930.
Bauhaus translates to “construction House” – soon this school of arts and crafts was transformed into a real arts movement. It’s very important part of art history. This modern arts movement was characterized by its unique approach to design and architecture. It’s renowned for its unique aesthetic that combines fine arts with arts and crafts as well as its influence on modern and contemporary art. Its main goal was for a functional, balanced design with a modern edge. The design was avant-garde, and translated to modernist posters that featured bold typography and block colour.
Today it is safe to say that Bauhaus is credited as the catalyst for modern architecture, furniture and influenced mid 20th century painting and sculpting.
Science Baby…
In this time period in the 1920’s two astronomers, Edwin Hubble and Georges Lemaitre realized that the universe is expanding. Lemaitres discovered the Big Bang Theory in 1927 that explains the origin of the universe, this was huge!
Georges Lemaître, was a Belgian cosmologist and Catholic priest came up with the big bang theory which states that “the expansion of the observable universe began with the explosion of a single particle at a definite point in time.” At this time a lot of astronomers were uncomfortable with the idea that the universe was expanding and that this idea seemed preposterous. The Theory was a radical idea even in science in the 1930s.
He was fascinated by physics and studied Einstein’s laws of gravitation which was published in 1915. He concluded that if Einstein’s theory was true, which there was a great deal of evidence supporting it in 1919, it meant that the universe was was expanding.
When he got his PHD he proposed this theory ” in which states that the expanding universe was the same in all directions the same laws applied and its compositions was the same but it was not static. Georges had no data to prove his discovery so others ignored him, but then slowly more and more scientists came out with their own research independently and it made the entire astronomers and physicians work together to come up with supportive data.
References:
Gombrich, E. H. (1966). The story of art. New York: Phaidon Publishers; distributed by Oxford University Press.
Bauhaus. (1993). In K. McLeish (Ed.), Bloomsbury guide to human thought. Bloomsbury. Credo Reference: https://ezproxy.capilanou.ca/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/bght/bauhaus/0?institutionId=6884
Bauhaus. (1996). In S. West (Ed.), The Bloomsbury Guide to Art. Bloomsbury. Credo Reference: https://ezproxy.capilanou.ca/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/bga/bauhaus/0?institutionId=6884
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The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaTITLEGeorges LemaîtrePUBLISHEREncyclopædia BritannicaDATE PUBLISHEDJuly 13, 2020URLhtACCESS DATENovember 28, 2020
Georges Lemaître. Encyclopaedia Britannica. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica reference :ps://www.britannica.com/biography/Georges-Lemaitre
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