Word: bauhausization
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Anselevicius taught at the Institute of Design in Chicago, which continued the Bauhaus tradition, before going to Washington University...
...order to flesh out the graphics exhibit, the Busch has pulled a few favorite Bauhaus works from its own collection. Klee and Feininger paintings, 1920-23, and Bauhaus crafts. The crafts, like the graphics, are a wide-spread sampling alongside yet another influence of the Bauhaus, art nouveau crafts. The resulting conglomeration is fascinating but confusing...
What you do get from "New European Graphics" is visual excitement, With the exception of major French artists, this is everything that was happening in European art in 1921. For a refreshing change, it's not the scholars who made this selection but the artists themselves. Bauhaus teachers invited contributions from the artists they admired. It's a medley of masters and, as with a museum's permanent exhibits, you wander through and enjoy your favorites...
...Bauhaus master teachers' prints which are displayed here, enable you to understand inspiration that united the other diverse artists. Even in its early, turbulent years. Bauhaus ideals were evolving--ideals of exhaustive perceptual study coupled with artistic creativity, art combined with craft, superior industrial design integrated into everyday life, and universal communication through common functional terms. Despite dogmas and manifestoes, the freedom and complexity of Bauhaus work can be seen in Paul Klee's Bauhaus work, which combines spontaneity and discipline. klee's spidery sketches are whimsical, ironic and sometimes ridiculous. They are supported by intricate color grids. Following Groplus...
...European Graphics" is anecdotal by nature. It's a collaboration between artists who were widespread both geographically and stylistically. As such, it's an effort to communicate with each other and the public. It also says something about their support of the Bauhaus ideal of integrating the artist into society, and something about the early, catalytic years of the Bauhaus which inspired this support. Unfortunately the Busch-Reisinger does not elaborate either visually or with text to explain what that something is. The anecdotes remain hinted at, but untold, visually powerful, diverse, intriguing, and in puzzling...