Build your own perfect vision
Our aim with this app is to bring art to life for you. Move the black circle to the optimal position to create an aesthetically pleasing composition
There is no rule of right or wrong, and no success indicator will be displayed; instead, it is up to your aesthetic perception, your “constructive-concrete vision” according to Bauhaus.
Make
Start by touching the display of your touch-screen device with your finger(s). While holding your finger(s) on the display, you will create a black circle that you can move and re-position. When you stop touching, the black circle stays and there you have a composition. Try out different positions with the black circle in its white frame until you are visually and aesthetically satisfied with your creation. Try it over and back again - by the way, you can create a single circle for each fingers of your hand. Simply work around a bit until you are happy with the outcome. Does all this seem profane to you? Not at all, as this is constructive-concrete “seeing” as experiencable art thanks to Bauhaus.
Mission
The source of inspiration for this application came from a personal conversation with Rudolf Ortner, one of the last Bauhaus students of Mies van der Rohe and Wassily Kandinsky, back in 1997, at his final exhibition in Berlin, Germany, two months from his death. In the course of this personal presentation of his Berlin exhibition, he was able to sensitize us to the “constructive aesthetics” of the Bauhaus by means of his objects and photographs. He revealed just how much attention and artistic reflection it took him to find the right position for his objects until he had perfected his constructivist composition.
Master
After his professional career as a freelance architect, Rudolf Ortner devoted himself to the artistic path of constructivism as a painter and photographer until his death. He thus remained true to the cultural direction of the Bauhaus, which had already become history decades earlier and which he had personally internalized as a role model at the Bauhaus in the 1930s through his teachers such as Mies van der Rohe, Kandinsky and Albers. Rudolf Ortner's art reveals the constructive aesthetics inherent in many things in our environment. He detaches constructive details from their surroundings in order to give them a new, independent meaning. In their clarity, they now correspond to the constructive ideal that has proven to be a constant in the development of art to this day.
Memo
Bauhaus is a cultural movement founded in Germany in the 1920s, which until the 1930s was strongly influenced by its artists and their definition of a constructive-concrete aesthetic in architecture and art. According to Wikipedia, the “historic Bauhaus today represents the most influential educational institution in the field of architecture, art and design in the 20th century. Today, Bauhaus is regarded worldwide as the home of the avant-garde of classical modernism in all areas of free and applied art and architecture. The resonance of the Bauhaus continues to this day and significantly shapes the image of modernist trends.” The most famous representatives of the Bauhaus include Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe and Wassily Kandinsky.
