Founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius at Weimar, Germany, and later located successively at Dessau, Berlin, and Chicago, to develop a functional architecture based on a correlation between creative design and modern industry and science.
http://the-artists.org/movement/Bauhaus.html
the radically simplified forms, the rationality and functionality, and the idea that mass-production was reconcilable with the individual artistic spirit - were already partly developed in Germany before the Bauhaus was founded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus
In these works Albers explored an illusion whereby the central square, lying between the inner and outer squares, would subtly take on the hue of its neighbours. He termed this the "interaction of color”
http://www.lacma.org/beyondgeometry/artworks0.html
If one says “Red” (the name of a color)
And there are 50 people listening,
It can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds.
And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.
http://www.muscroy.com/art313/interaction-color-01.htm
"the thread should speak for itself, that somehow the hand of the artist, the hand of the craftsperson, the hand of the weaver wasn't going to interfere with how the thread wanted to be seen,"
http://layersofmeaning.org/archives/000210.html
Her weavings are often constructed of both traditional and industrial materials, not hesitating to combine jute, paper, and cellophane, for instance, to startlingly sublime effect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anni_Albers
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