What I know about Bauhaus

The Bauhaus is a cool building in Germany and its a design style...

That is all.

Ooo  and its a cool band from the 80s. Ha

Russia is chill, brrrr

Day 07

Cubism on design

Ludwig  Hohlwein

-german poster designs

Edward McKnight  Kauffer

-ideas of cubism applied to design

-generous use of negative space

Analytical Cubism 

-early phase, new ways of understanding space

Synthetic Cubism

-Picasso making collages

Adolphe Mouron Cassandre

-abstraction

World War I

-people looking for logic systems, universal truths

Dubonnet 

-perfect??  , Dorian suggests godlike

-wordplay

-text and image work cohesively

Prior to World War I

-waves of unrest among workers all over the world

-especially Russia

Russian Revolution

universal truth - what do i believe maybe i can make other people believe

Russian avant-garde

1.Cubo-futorismo

2.Suprematism

3.Constructivsim

Work made of scraps, cut and paste

book made out of wallpaper cut-out

Kasimir Malevich

-Suprematism reflects utilitarian function

-no pictorial representation

-painting be spiritual not pictorial

-1915 red square

Constructivism

-the only meaningful art have function and things that have function are therefore art

Vladimir Tatlin

Rodchenko

El Lissitzky

renounce art for arts sake

art should serve the communist party

Lissitzky

-helps pioneer suprematists  but then works on Constructivism, bauhaus

Different guys:

Kandinsky 

Lissitzky

prun  ??

intersection between painting and architecture

beat the whites with the red wedge

-black bars

-page structure grid

-early expression of modernist

-asymmetrical, balance, san serif

How do you create meaningful art for the proletariat ?

Will good art be understood by proletariat?

I had a class about the philosophy of art. We learned different philosophers' philosophies (heh heh) about what is art, and they all varied widely and yet all made sense.  I think the question, "what is good art" is a hard question to satisfy because its based on opinions; but some philosophers say you can quantify it by the rules of beauty, and harmony. The greeks divided art into Apollonian art and Dionysian art, which were civilization and primitivism, respectfully.  So I don't think there is one answer for something so ambiguous we call "art". I think its more of a compliment given if it transcends what it is. I think good art is good at communicating something relevant so, I believe it should be understood by the proletariat if that's who its aimed at.

To create meaningful art for the proletariat I think familiar elements have to be used to communicate in a way that is familiar enough to come across effectively. For example, it would be infective to use an obscure literary reference to an illiterate population. Yet some people may like the ambiguous nature of unfamiliar subject so it doesn't necessarily make it bad art. I guess in the end you just have to experiment and if it works, it works...  And when you die someone will call it good art.