Bauhaus

Founded by Architect Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus was a response to the boom of industrialization. Instead of being horrified by it they attempted to control and perfect it. Combining Art and Crafts the Bauhaus abolished the line between pure art and applied art in their teachings.

Modern artist obeyed an inner prompting, Bauhaus artist like Klee and Kandinsky were modern artist. Kandinsky painted simply how he felt at the moment, it existed for its own sake, it did not tell a storey.

Walter Gropius denoted art for art’s sake.
Mies Van Der Rohe and contemporaries
Modernist buildings full of light, modernist promised to deliver daylight and fresh air. They took nature and function as guiding perspe
“A novel was no longer a good yarn. A concerto did not move anyone to tears. A painting no longer recreated a moment in the past. A dance did not reinforce noble ideals of love and honour”