Word: bauhaus
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...after Britain's famous Druid ruins, received a panning from the public and the press and pained reactions from the Roosevelt family. Earlier this year, the committee decided to try again, this time without a competition. After considering the work of 15 architects, it unanimously chose Hungarian-born, Bauhaus-trained Marcel Breuer, 64, whose recently opened inverted-ziggurat Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan drew hostile criticism until it proved to be a perfect host...
Kandinsky's art became more and more severe in the 1920s, while he was teaching at Germany's famed Bauhaus. Only a few essential traces of serpentine exuberance remain in Stability. He had turned to the excessive discipline that he believed abstraction demanded. But the roots remain visible. Out of the icons of his native Russia and the glass paintings of Bavaria, Kandinsky had opened for himself a new perspective...
Fear of Another Kind. Juxtapositions of paintings also suggest hitherto unexpected correspondences. In the decade 1925 through 1934 are works by such divergent artists as that arcane, Swiss-born Bauhaus prof, Paul Klee, the Chicago anatomist of decay, Ivan Albright, the tragic expressionist Arshile Gorky, and the U.S.'s clown-painting Walt Kuhn. In paintings executed within a three-year span, each depicts man masked in dreadful isolation...
...dreamlike round of Vienna, capital of the inbred Habsburgs and the waltz. In the changing '20s, Paris provided a moveable feast for Hemingway, Picasso, Fitzgerald and Joyce, while in the chaos after the Great Crash, Berlin briefly erupted with the savage iconoclasm of Brecht and the Bauhaus. During the shell-shocked 1940s, thrusting New York led the way, and in the uneasy 1950s it was the easy Rome of la dolce vita. Today, it is London, a city steeped in tradition, seized by change, liberated by affluence, graced by daffodils and anemones, so green with parks and squares that...
...HANS HAACKE, 29, follows the natural German bent for scientific phenomena. At 18, he painted boxy Bauhaus abstractions, but this art seemed too rooted in place. "We now know that there is nothing stabile. For centuries, people tried to convey motion. Symbols, snapshot representations, impressionism. All this was based on a convention everyone understood. But it was never the reality of motion. I want reality." Haacke made sealed Plexiglas boxes with enough water inside to evaporate in the sun and then drip in random patterns down the sides. Next he tried what he calls "hourglasses," something like stereo-kaleidescopes, which...