The Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropious in Weimar. It was started with the idea of creating a ''total'' work of art in which all arts, including architecture, which will eventually come all together. The Bauhaus had a major influence in art, architecture, graphic design, interior design and typography. It involves everything that we are still doing today. Even the way we are thinking. The simplicity and attention to details, balance between form and function etc.
In the school they were trying to combine fine arts and arts and crafts, so that has a major influence of graphic design. They favored simplified forms, rationality, functionality and the idea that mass production could live in harmony with the artistic spirit of individuality. The teachers were, besides Gropius, Lazlo Moholy- Nagy and Herber Bayer. They taught, besides art, typography as part of it.
Lazlo Moholy- Nagy
The expectations of the age of technology and his new media let Moholy- Nagy to a functional use of Abstraction, which he managed to show in al areas of design and which guided him through different phases of experimenting. He and Gropius were working as a stage designer, exhibition organiser, typographer and film producer. He was experimenting with a lot of things such as painting, film, photography, design and with photograms.
Wassily Kandinsky
In Kandinsky's works of his childhood period can be found specific colour combinations, which he explained by the fact that ''each colour lives by its mysterious life''. In the future he started o stage of intensive fruitful search. It was basicly landscapes, based on colour discords. In his creativity and organizational skills he always attracted anything intellectual, restless, striving, which was in the world of art of the time.
He was the first person to be credited with creating modern abstract woks. He used to call his art as ' inner beauty, fervour of spirit, and deep spiritual desire, inner necessity'. In every of his works he never put human beings, everything was in character of abstract figures.
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Lazlo Moholy-Nagy Biography - Infos - Art Market. 2013. Lazlo Moholy-Nagy Biography - Infos - Art Market. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.moholy-nagy.eu/. [Accessed 25 November 2013].
Wassily Kandinsky - biography, paintings, books. 2013. Wassily Kandinsky - biography, paintings, books. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.wassilykandinsky.net/. [Accessed 25 November 2013].
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