Monday 12th November

Today was the start of another small two week project in relation to the 100th birthday of Bauhaus.

I didn’t know what Bauhaus was until this project.

RESEARCH on BAUHAUS CAN GO HERE 

The tutors went through a powerpoint, about bauhaus and giving us information about ideas that we can do. There are different parties that are well known such as the metallic party and ‘Beard Nose and House Party’.

The following bullet points are the notes that I wrote down while the presentation was going on:

• Walter Gropius – Founder
• Kandisky
• Annie Albus
• Hunta Stolz – Self Portrait 1928 – 2D & 3D
• Triadic Ballet – Oskar Schlelemer
• Beau Arts Ball 1931 – Architecture
• Andy Warhol – The Factory – Art is what you can get away with
• Film and Video tape at the party, and the film continues to roll
• velvet underground
• dastriadsche ballet – coloured background – not original ballet – grid on the floor – pink and white colour  – geometry – spiral skirts, doing spirals on a spiral – different lighting and camera angles
• fashion in motion – Kansai Yamamoto
• hussein chalayan – autum to winter – chairs into a suitcase – covers to clothes
• A video on A – Z dance – a variety of different dance styles
• Paris is burning 1991 – dance battler but there is no touching involved
• Channel 4 – ident diner – trailer as channel 4 is all about identity
• raine alen – miller – somesuch – low key lighting – different things to look at, not just looking at one subject
• Foley – film + tv sound effects – creating them – The Sound of Cos

The next part of the session was creating a fashion garment to come off the body in response to the Bauhaus. The group wanted to do a design that came from spirals. I thought the garment was quite interesting as we all got involved in the designing and thinking stage. Spirals always look good when they are on people so we thought that creating a colour garment would be the best option.

These are the photographs from the process that I took:

When putting these spirals onto the body of cardboard, and the design was really effective. This is the first time our group worked together as a group and it was really fun as we all got on, we all spoke and said our ideas.

I have never worked in a group project before, excluding being at work in retail, but in a learn environment I havent. I did enjoy getting to know new people in the group and felt like I contributed a lot to the end idea.

THIS IS LEFT OVER PAPER THAT I HAVE PUT IN MY SKETCHBOOK BECAUSE WE WERE TOLD NOT TO THROW ANYTHING WAY. THIS IS WHAT I HAVE CREATED.