Lecture Notes:
Bauhaus & Black Mountain college
This lecture focuses on contrasting the teaching at Black Mountain College in the USA (which
had an important influence upon 20C art) and the Bauhaus in Germany which
likewise influenced artistic practice, but which arguably had a stronger impact upon
design practitioners especially in relation to modernist design. Interestingly, Black
Mountain College was founded by Josef and Anni Albers – Josef Albers had been a
prominent professor at the Bauhaus.
The overall aim of Bauhaus was to train students in the principles of design and art simultaneously - (this included fine art and applied arts)
Whereas black mountain college was a progressive
environment - liberal arts college (not exactly an art college) and the aim for students was to emphasise the process of art, rather than the final piece.
Notable BMC graduates include:
(Robert Rauschenberg)
(Cy Twombly)
(Stan Vanderbeek)
Each graduate operates with a less formal
fashion, with an emphasis upon
material process/assemblage.
Bauhaus stressed the importance of experimentation, professor Laszlo Moholy-Nagy stressed the importance of technology, his teachings were directed toward simplicity and 'elemental expression' he
reduced variety in nature to a set of basic properties used to create products that had agency.
Experimental artwork by Bauhaus teachers:
(Kandinsky)
(Laszlo Moholy-Nagy)
(Oskar Schlemmer)
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