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Volume 30, Number 4, pages 275-293 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2019_4_275
MESSAGE OF A WORLD-CHANGING UTOPIA: SEMANTIC ASPECTS OF THE ARTISTIC LANGUAGE OF THE BAUHAUSrn
Zsófia Francsicsné Szántay
Address: Department of Public Building Design, Faculty of Architecture, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 3. Műegyetem rakpart, Budapest, H-1111, Hungary.
E-mail: szantay.zsofia@gmail.com
Abstract: The conceptual revolution of the turn of the century intended to recreate both man and the manifestation of his vision of reality, art, giving them a new beginning and inventing a new set of signs and mythology. The ideal craftsman-artist lived a new way of life and conveyed a liberated meaning of artistic creation through the unified language of art. The aim of this paper is to reveal the message of the Bauhaus utopia through its three transpositions to different media: the text of the Bauhaus Manifesto, the visual grammar of the graphic arts by Kandinsky and Klee, and the architectural language of the Bauhaus Building in Dessau. We take a special focus on the grammatical rules and higher order symmetry of the artistic compositions.
Keywords: art theory, art history, semantics, architecture, Bauhaus
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