Chapter 16

1. Sum up the reading in your own words in 1 paragraph.

Chapter 16 starts with the Bauhaus, which I will tell you all about in class and will write about in excruciating detail in my paper, so on we go to where the book left off with the De Stijl style. The Bauahus was introduced to De Stijl three years after the style's creation (1919) by one of the school's faculty, Lyonel Feininger. In 1919 De Stijl was introduced to the Bauhaus community by teacher Lyonel Feininger. By 1920 the De Stijl typographic style was beginning to make headway in Russian, and some German, newspapers and magazines, but was not liked by many other places in Europe. The chapter continues with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, an avid artist who experimented with designs in a number of mediums, including: painting, sculpture, film, and photography. He liked to experiment with just about every factor contained in the art, the environment it's created in, the material used, combining two or more mediums, ect. He was a very influential artist at the time of shifting to change in the "Bauhaus era". After the Bauhaus' dissolve due to the Nazi party in 1933, the chapter shifts its focus and preambles the changes that are to take place in sans-serif and typography in general.

2. Name the one thing (or person) you found most interesting from the reading.

I found it to be most interesting that the Bauhaus was disliked by the Nazi regime. I can't see any clear definition why they wouldn't like the use of form and function and having the idea of reproduction in mind when creating artistic AND practical things (like chairs and teapots and all that good stuff).

3. State at least one question you have after the reading.

So...why did the Nazi regime put the Bauhaus down? Was it their art style in particular or was it the artists that they didn't like? What's up?