Word: bauhausization
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...Munch, the Norwegian whose eye for wood's texture and potential color (take a look at "Moonlight") taught pattern and mood to his followers, the exhibit includes the expressionists--works like Erich Keckel's "Two Men at Table" inscribed somberly and portentously "To Dostoevsky" --and winds up through the Bauhaus. The four Bauhaus portfolois (1921-1923) get Klee, and Feininger...
...this mass of dozens of exhibitions containing thousands of pieces, documents and photos-is to inspect and debate the mythic purity of modern art, to see how it really has worked in society and not just how it hoped to work. Ten years ago, anyone who argued that the Bauhaus tradition of functionalist design might suit the totalitarian spirit would have been dismissed as a loon. The main architecture show in Venice this year, a fascinating assembly called "Rationalism and Architecture in Italy During the Fascist Regime," irrefutably demonstrates how it could and did. Likewise, we suppose that the "advanced...
...immigrants in the past 100 years. There are over 200 works by 67 artists−no more than a handful by any one person−strung out between way stations of information about immigration quotas and the rise of the Third Reich, sum-ups of the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College. The result is an assault upon both the mind and the eye. The frenzy of impressions obscures, unintentionally perhaps, the weakness in the show's premise: if America is a nation of immigrants, then a collection of immigrant work is little more than a somewhat arbitrary survey...
Aalto built widely in Finland and Scandinavia with a few structures elsewhere in Europe and the U.S. A total individualist, he broke away from stiff neo-classicism and stark Bauhaus, and ranks with Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe as an architectural innovator. Unlike such men, however, he never issued architectural rules, attracted many disciples, or even handed down sculptural forms to copy. His work remains influential mainly for what are really moral reasons. " Architecture-the real thing," Aalto once said, "is only to be found when man stands in the center." All architects talk about...
Died. Josef Albers, 88, abstract painter and influential art teacher at Black Mountain College and Yale; of heart disease; in New Haven, Conn. The German-born son of a house painter, Albers studied and taught-along with Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky-at Weimar's Bauhaus, the renowned laboratory-workshop of craft and design. When Hitler closed the Bauhaus in 1933, Albers came to the U.S., where he meticulously painted geometric patterns, notably squares within squares, and taught his students to see the ways colors interact. "His criticism was so devastating that I wouldn...