Bauhaus/Joost Schmidt

Joost Schmidt
Ausstellung Arntz Holzchnitte
1925

YKO Kohlepapier,

Joost Schmidt

1926

























Joost Schmidt
Bauhaus exhibition poster
1923





When I look at the Bauhaus images, I see as a mix representation. Some of the posters are very detailed and others are very reduced. However, there are a few elements that are obvious. Bauhaus uses very geometric shapes and lines. They tend to use directional typography. By directional, I mean vertical, horizontal, upside down and reflected. Though some works are very simple they still guide your eye all over the production. You eyes move, right, left, up, down and sometimes you feel like you are going in circles.
It was this sense of reduction and movement that caught my Eye. The colors are also another important factor to the Bauhaus movement. They focused on elementary elements we all have access to and are associated with. The use of basic and secondary colors brings us back to the beginning when life was simple. But they lead us beyond the simple with the shapes, lines and movement of the they create and modernity.
This movement is so very important still today. I Ikea seems to be a company that produces in the style of the Bauhaus movement. Ikea has brought brought Bauhaus into American homes through mass production. However, sad to say, I am not sure most Americans know where the style influence comes from and how it was started.