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Unit 15 Bauhaus & New Typography
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Art History
Post-Graduate
10/12/2011

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Kasimir Malevich

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- pure painting style of basic forms and pure colour he called "SUPREMATISM"

- rejected utilitarian function & pictorial reperesentation

- seeking expression of feeling

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What is "SUPREMATISM" ?
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- pure painting style of basic forms & pure colour
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Kasimir Malevich & Wassily Kandinski
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- argued art must be spiritual activity

- rejected political role

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Vladmir Tatlin & Alexander Rodchenko?
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- led 25 artist oppossing "spiritual activity"
-renounced "art for arts sake"
-created 1 constructivist ideology
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El Lissitzky
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- russian painter, architect, graphic designer & photographer
-leader of constructivism
-influenced by modern design
-contacted De Stijil, Bauhaus & Dadists
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Capitalist Cosmopolitanism ?
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- communist revolution in russia
- soviet government tolerated modern movements
- acused
- government turned hostile!
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De Stijil
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-movement in Netherlands
-universal laws of equilibreum and harmony for art
-mathematical structure, harmony of nature,
-laid groundwork theory for contrast and harmony
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Who founded De Stijil?
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Theo Van Doesburg
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Who created the De Stijil magazine?
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Vilmos Huzzar & Van Doesburg
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Who is Van Doesburg?
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-imposed horizontal and vertical structure upon the alphabet and poster designs
-san serif type favoured (red)(revolution)
-open grid
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What is the Bauhaus opened?
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Weimar , Germany
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The Bauhaus?
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-shaped aesthetics of modern design
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who founded the Bauhaus?
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Walter Gropius
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Who is Johannes Itten?
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- wrote and complied "the art of colour"
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Laszio Moholy-Nagy?
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-typography a tool of communication
-experimented photgraphy as new form of expression
- replaced Johannes Itten
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Where did the bauhaus move to?
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Dessau
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Where did the bauhaus move to?
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Dessau
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Who put an end to the bauhaus?
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-Nazi's
-europeans moved to america, course of american design
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Herbert Bayer?
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- type innovations using san-serif fonts
-designed a universal font
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Jan Tschihold?
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-book "die Neue typographie"
-arrested and accusse by nazis as a "Cultural Bolshevik" and creating a un-German typography
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