16 Questions
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?
Immediate biological perception rather than culturally conditioned intellect.
What were some of the elements analyzed in the Basic Course?
Point, line, plane, color, texture, pattern, scale, and contrast.
What was the purpose of the fascination with organizing geometric and typographic elements during the Bauhaus period?
To attain a language of the visual through formal opposition.
Who made the statement 'we write everything in lowercase, as this saves us time, why two alphabets for only one word'?
Herbert Bayer
What major event led to the closure of the Bauhaus?
The Nazis closing the Bauhaus in 1933
Where did Moholy-Nagy go to start the New Bauhaus?
Chicago
What did Bayer feel would eventually surface in relation to typography?
A new alphabet
What did Moholy-Nagy believe was slowly filtering through in terms of the 'hygiene of the optical'?
The health of the visible
In what year did the Nazis close the Bauhaus?
1933
What did Moholy-Nagy believe was the new unity in art and technology?
Art and technology
What was the main focus of Bayer's 'On Typography'?
The changing mediums through which typography is expressed
What did Moholy-Nagy leave behind in Germany to move to Chicago?
The closure of the Bauhaus
What is the combination of photographs and typography called?
Typophoto
Test your knowledge about the Bauhaus school of design and its influential theories. Explore the key concepts introduced by Walter Gropius, the language of vision, Johannes Itten's contributions, and the elements of visual language taught in the 'Basic Course' (Vorkurs).
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