Bauhaus School of Design and Theory Quiz
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Bauhaus School of Design and Theory Quiz

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What did Walter Gropius suggest in 1920?

To start from zero.

What is the 'Basic Course' (Vorkurs) at Bauhaus?

A laboratory to identify and analyze the elements of visual language and to teach these formal concepts to the students.

What did Kandinsky envision pictorial composition as?

A system of oppositional forces.

What was the focus of the Bauhaus movement in terms of visual language?

<p>Immediate biological perception rather than culturally conditioned intellect.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What were some of the elements analyzed in the Basic Course?

<p>Point, line, plane, color, texture, pattern, scale, and contrast.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the purpose of the fascination with organizing geometric and typographic elements during the Bauhaus period?

<p>To attain a language of the visual through formal opposition.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who made the statement 'we write everything in lowercase, as this saves us time, why two alphabets for only one word'?

<p>Herbert Bayer</p> Signup and view all the answers

What major event led to the closure of the Bauhaus?

<p>The Nazis closing the Bauhaus in 1933</p> Signup and view all the answers

Where did Moholy-Nagy go to start the New Bauhaus?

<p>Chicago</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Bayer feel would eventually surface in relation to typography?

<p>A new alphabet</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Moholy-Nagy believe was slowly filtering through in terms of the 'hygiene of the optical'?

<p>The health of the visible</p> Signup and view all the answers

In what year did the Nazis close the Bauhaus?

<p>1933</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Moholy-Nagy believe was the new unity in art and technology?

<p>Art and technology</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the main focus of Bayer's 'On Typography'?

<p>The changing mediums through which typography is expressed</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Moholy-Nagy leave behind in Germany to move to Chicago?

<p>The closure of the Bauhaus</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the combination of photographs and typography called?

<p>Typophoto</p> Signup and view all the answers

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