day 9

NOTES:

El Lissitzky – a painter originally started off helping pioneers

Influences constructivism and also Bauhaus

Lissitzky explores the intersection between Painting and architecture which is Proun(acronym)

Projects for the establishment of new art.

Taking a scientific approach to take on art

Beat the whites with the red wedge” propaganda piece (Lissitzsky’s known piece)

Page and Book design, For the voice

Also writes the Isms of Art- page system he developed mathematically (grids/bars)

English French and German

Columns divides each language

Sans Serif Type

Grids are completely liberal for designers

Solutions are in the problem

Analyze the geometry it tells you the solution

Alexander Rochanco  - art student 100 years ago

Style is primitive, its raw

Evolved working with modern aesthetics

Becomes a constructivists

Something that serves a social need –valid art

Destijl – functions in a window of time

Based on a Utopian approach to aesthetics

Theo Bandosberg- publisher

1922 format of magazine changes to A symmetrical

eada movement that said the world is chaos

the world has no meaning so why should art reflect on it

Before building a new world everything old had to be torn down

Piett Mondrion

Bauhaus was a school

Utopian ideal to change society

We should return to the old stuff

No machine back to creating by hand

Bringing the crafts and the man together

Bauhaus is about rebuilding

1919-1933

1919-1925- Weimar

First exhibition – 1923

Letter of registration – 1924

1925-1932 – Dessau

Groupius replaced by Meyer – 1928

Meyer replaced by van der Rohe – 1930

1932-1933 – Berlin

THOUGHTS:

Movies were depressing. People back in the day seemed to be confused on what they wanted to do. Like Lissitzsky, he helped pioneers, then started painting, then started architecture and wrote books? I like the movement with bringing man and crafts together. Working by hand is more valuable to me then with machine.

QUESTIONS:

Why would Lissitzsky take on a scientific approach on art? Art is suppose to be fun, imaginative and creative, not scientific.

In the movie, why were the Nazi's destroying the Bauhaus and why did Hitler hate artist so much? Were artists/designers treated as bad as the Jews?