ART

FASHION

BAUHAUS
The Bauhaus started as an art school in Germany but became 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 art and crafts, and to reunite creativity and
manufacturing.
The motivations behind the
creation of the Bauhaus lay in
the 19th century, in anxieties
about the soullessness of
manufacturing and its products,
and in fears about art's loss of
purpose in society. Creativity
and
manufacturing
were
drifting apart, and the Bauhaus
aimed to unite them once
again, rejuvenating design for
everyday life.
Typography invented by Herbert Bayer
Source: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-bauhaus.htm

The sleek design and

innovative
use
of
materials in the "The
Wassily Chair" are typical
of the ground breaking
developments in design
that made the Bauhaus
famous. It is lightweight,
easily moved, easily mass
produced,
and
its
components are arranged
with
clarity.
It
also
employed new materials,
using recently developed
seamless-steel
bent
tubing that could endure
physical tension without
faltering.

One of the main

objectives of the
Bauhaus was to unify
art, craft, and
technology.

The Wassily Chair

by Marcel Breuer

Homage to the
Square
by Josef Albers
Source: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-bauhaus.htm

Josef Albers described his

most
famous
series,
Homage to the Square, as
"platters to serve colour."
He began the series in
1949 and worked on it
until his death in 1976.
This
early
version
demonstrates
his
systematic approach to
investigating the optical
effects of colors. With this
series, Albers explored
how
colors
change
depending
on
their
placement
within
the
composition. Although the
series
was
created
several years after the
Bauhaus movement, the
work is typical of the
experimental, modernist
approach to form and
color that underpinned
Bauhaus teaching.

The Cesca chair

by Marcel Breuer

Armchair Koller DS/71

by Josef Hoffmann

Red and Blue wooden chair

by Gerrit Rietveld

Coffee table T/488

by F. L. Wright

Cantilever 560
by Mies van der Rohe

Armchair Costes 126

by Philippe Starck

This
Organic
theme meant that
the
structure
should fit into
nature
and
everything should
connect all the
way down to the
furniture in the
house.

The architect must be a prophet a prophet in the true

sense of the term if he cant see at least ten years
ahead dont call him an architect.
Frank Lloyd Wright was clearly a man ahead of his time. The design of many of his
homes once seemed light-years ahead of their time, and people often had trouble
understanding his vision, yet almost all of our modern construction puts to use the
ideals he thought to be so important.
Read more: http

Architecture is all around us. It

FASHION
is in a sense an innate part of
us because it helps shape who
we become as a person and
what we have been and are as
a society.
Source:
http://users.manchester.edu/student/djsprunger
/flw%20vs%20bauhaus%20paper.pdf

The Bauhaus was not a formal group, but rather a school. Its three
architect-directors (Gropius, Meyer, and van der Rohe) are the names
most closely associated with it.
Furthermore, a large number of artists were lecturers at the Bauhaus.

Castle in the Sun

Influenced by
Expressionism,
Color
and I
Cubism,
and
Surrealism,
Paul
are one.
I Klee
was a painter who
am a
experimented
and
deeply
explored
painter
colour theory.

Senecio

Fire in the Evening

Paul Klee
on the
Runway

Fashion Illustration by Maite

Lafuente:

Kandinsky, a painter and colour theorist, was also a lecturer at the Bauhaus school.
He taught the basic design class for beginners and the course on advanced theory.
He also conducted painting classes and a workshop in which he developed his
colour theory with new elements of form psychology.

Small Worlds I, 1923

On White II, 1923

Brown with supplement, 1935

Kandinsky
on the
Runway

BAUHAUS TEXTILES
The weaving workshop was one of the most successful workshops at the
Bauhaus where they experimented with both traditional and industrialised
weaving techniques. The colour and formal vocabulary was strongly
influenced by Paul Klees theories.

bauhaus texture
video

Gunta

Otti Berger

Tactile Board

When looking at an art movement as inspiration you can start new design from:

Pattern
Colour

Texture

ART
MOVEMEN
T

Principle
s/
Concept

Colour

Source:
https://designandculturebyed.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/slide
37.jpg

Staying true to the original Bauhaus edict: applying geometrical forms, using
complimentary shapes andmaterials matched together allowing them to speak
to one another fluidly as a collective whole Herrera seamlessly executes the
Bauhaus philosophy through out her Spring/Summer collection for 2012
http://www.thenewsgallery.com/2011/09/bauhaus-at-new-york-fashion-weekby.html

Texture

Hussein Chalayan
applied the Bauhaus principle of
Function over Form. His work blurs the distinction
between art and fashion.
http://40plusstyle.com/bauhaus-style-and-fashion/

Principle
s/
Concept