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Why are women forgotten in art and design history?
▻https://www.creativereview.co.uk/why-are-women-forgotten-in-art-and-design-history

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When it was founded in 1919, the Bauhaus school represented a new approach to art that did away with the pretension of previous movements. Burning bridges between artist and artisan, focus was placed on craft, process and the building of art rather than the end product itself. The iconic school would go onto influence design and architecture over the next century with hallmark names like László Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Marcel Breuer at its helm, who all taught at the iconic school as ‘masters’ during its 24-year history. However, few women were made masters, and women artists tend to rank further down on the Who’s Who list of Bauhaus icons, despite the school’s reputation as a bastion of gender equality.

#art #femmes #invisibilisation

The Other Art History : The Forgotten Women of Bauhaus | Art for Sale | Artspace
▻https://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/in_depth/the-other-art-history-the-forgotten-women-of-bauhaus-55526

So technically women were allowed to study at the school, however the scope of disciplines they were encouraged to partake in were limited. Gropius famously believed that men and women’s brains operated differently––specifically, men had the capacity to think in three dimensions while women did not. Therefore many of the women artists of the Bauhaus movement stuck to practices commonly regarded as “women’s work”––textiles and weaving. Men, on the other hand, were encouraged to be architects, sculptors, and painters.

So it’s really no surprise that although the Bauhaus movement was largely populated by women, the seminal works that are remembered in art historical retellings are those of Josef Albers, Marcel Breuer, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee––basically: men. Now we’re not discrediting the work of these aforementioned artists, however it’s kind of a bummer that when we talk about this major movement in modern art, women are basically written out of the narrative (or if they are mentioned––they’re written about as the wives or counterparts of great artists).

In the past decade, (only about 90 years later), it’s come to light that these women were not just the plus-ones of great minds, but rather some of the formative artists of the Bauhaus movement themselves. In honor of these long-forgotten artists, we highlighted eight women of the Bauhaus movement whose influence has had lasting effects on contemporary art.

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Découvert ans l’expo « l’esprit du Bauhaus » : Le cours préliminaire...

Tous les élèves qui souhaitaient suivre les cours au Bauhaus devaient obligatoirement passer par une année de préparation avant de commencer les choses sérieuses. C’était le "cours préliminaire".

Cela dit, en fait de "choses sérieuses", qui n’aurait pas rêvé de suivre ces enseignements. Visez un peu : Johannes Itten pour les principes généraux de la construction d’une image, Laszllo Moholy-Nagy pour perception visuelle et l’utilisation des trois fondamentaux (surface, ligne, point), Wassily Kandinsky et Paul Klee pour les formes et les couleurs, enfin Josef Albers pour les volumes, les matériaux et les petits objets.

On a vu pire équipe pédagogique, non ?

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#art #bauhaus #graphisme

Download Original Bauhaus Books & Journals for Free: Gropius, Klee, Kandinsky, Moholy-Nagy & More | Open Culture

▻http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/download-original-bauhaus-books-journals-for-free.html

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In 1919, German architect Walter Gropius founded Bauhaus, the most influential art school of the 20th century. Bauhaus defined modernist design and radically changed our relationship with everyday objects. Gropius wrote in his manifesto Programm des Staatlichen Bauhauses Weimar that “There is no essential difference between the artist and the artisan.” His new school, which featured faculty that included the likes of Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky, did indeed erase the centuries-old line between applied arts and fine arts.

#art #bauhaus #gropius

Time Travel Back to 1926 and Watch Wassily Kandinsky Create an Abstract Composition | Open Culture

▻http://www.openculture.com/2012/06/wassily_kandinsky_captured_in_the_act_of_creation_1926.html

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel back in time and look over the shoulder of one of the early 20th century’s greatest artists to watch him work? In this brief film from 1926, we get to see the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky as he turns a blank canvas into one of his distinctive abstract compositions.

#art #bauhaus #kandinsky