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Definition:
Founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany in 1919, Bauhaus was responsible for the
development of modern art school, combining visual arts, sculpture, architecture and
decorative arts in one place. Important members included Oskar Schlemmer, Josef
Albers and Paul Klee.
The Bauhaus style would prove to be exceptionally influential in the 20th century and was characterized by simple, geometric forms. Bauhaus was also politically engaged, promoting a rational, socialist vision of society, resulting in its being closed by the Nazis in 1933. As a result, many of the teachers and students emigrated to the United States, where their influence spread even more.
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What is Aesthetics?
In philosophy, aesthetics is the study of beauty and taste, whether in the form of the comic, the tragic or the sublime. Aesthetics has traditionally been part of other philosophical pursuits like the investigation of epistemology or ethics. However, it started to come into its own and become a more independent pursuit under Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher who saw aesthetics as a unitary and self-sufficient type of human experience.What is Philosophy?
What is philosophy? Is there any point in studying philosophy, or is it a useless subject? What are the different branches of philosophy - what's the difference between aestheitcs and ethics? What's the difference between metaphysics and epistemology?
