Bauhaus: Design History & Legacy

Now that I'm on spring break, I'm doing the tri-annual catch up on all work from last quarter that I'm excited about! This past quarter I took '20th-Century Art', and it was one of the most interesting classes I've taken at SCAD. I'm an avid art history lover so spending 5 hours a week getting to learn about the art that shaped our world was the coolest thing to me.

For our final project we got to present a research project on any topic within the 20th century that was of interest to us. I chose the Bauhaus School, which was an art school in Germany from 1919-1933 that completely revolutionized not only the world of art and design, but how art education is structured. A lot of my curriculum at SCAD shows massive Bauhaus influence, and a lot of my favorite designers came out of that era. I find the world that the Bauhaus School existed in to be fascinating, but I'm equally as fascinated by the global events that led to a genuine need for a new version of art education.

As a part of my presentation, I conducted an activity in which I had each of my classmates take a postcard-size piece of paper and three shapes in any variation of the three primary colors. This was based on a questionnaire that Wassily Kandinsky conducted on the students at the Bauhaus school in which he investigated how we view the relationships between forms and colors. Seeing both what colors my classmates chose for each shape, and how they arranged the shapes on the postcard was really cool for me after studying this ideology.

Feel free to take a look through my research presentation below -- I had a surprising amount of fun researching this topic and creating a narrative about it.