Artist Challenge - bauhaus

July 16th, 2012
Dude and dudettes you made my birthday weekend better for picking me!! THANKERAMA!

So, being an Artist it is really hard for me to pick an Artist as I just want to pick everything that inspires so.......




....for the new challenge I've picked Bauhaus. I would have loved to have been a student at this school and anybody that knows my project/facebook world would understand this.

"The Bauhaus was the most influential modernist art school of the 20th century, one whose approach to teaching, and understanding art's relationship to society and technology, had a major impact both in Europe and the United States long after it closed. It was shaped by the 19th and early 20th centuries trends such as Arts and Crafts movement, which had sought to level the distinction between fine and applied arts, and to reunite creativity and manufacturing. This is reflected in the romantic medievalism of the school's early years, in which it pictured itself as a kind of medieval crafts guild. But in the mid 1920s the medievalism gave way to a stress on uniting art and industrial design, and it was this which ultimately proved to be its most original and important achievement. The school is also renowned for its faculty, which included artists Wassily Kandinsky, Josef Albers, László Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee and Johannes Itten, architects Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and designer Marcel Breuer."

~ This is quite a wide ranging challenge, it can be architecture, furniture design, painting, either recreating or being inspired by the style.

Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus#Bauhaus_artists

http://www.theartstory.org/movement-bauhaus.htm

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bauh/hd_bauh.htm

http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/C20th/bauhaus.htm

Entries must be dated between July 16 and July 22, and you may submit as many entries as you wish.

This challenge starts now and will end midnight PST on Sunday, July 22. Tag your entries ac-bauhaus. Please click on the various Artists/designers names in the links to get a better knowledge.
July 16th, 2012
Oooooo cool, I wonder if the Bauhaus exhibition is still on Mwaahahahaha :D
July 16th, 2012
The timing on this challenge is perfect. I've been playing around ideas based on Gunta Stotzl's textiles lately, so its obviously time to actually take/make the photos.
July 16th, 2012
Wow this is a kick in the eye!

Congrats on winning!
July 16th, 2012
Congrats on a well deserved win! Nice choice of theme ... I might even be able to get to grips with this one.
July 16th, 2012
Congratulations on the comp' love Bauhaus too, I'll get my thinking cap on! : )
July 17th, 2012
@dancingkatz look forward to seeing them
July 23rd, 2012
I am amazed at all the politics in art! Even the iconic cantilever chair ended up in a lawsuit (which the NON-bauhaus designer won.)
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