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The Bauhaus advertised itself with a table

Lesson 2 of 27 in Composition and layout.

Bauhaus in 7 Minutes: Revolutionary Design Movement Explained · Curious Muse

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Everyone remembers the poster and the postcards. This is the sheet that had to do the explaining.

A printed sheet, photographed framed behind glass. DIE AUSSTELLUNG 1923 runs across the top. Below it a five-row table sets red category headings (the school, the workshops, the building, painting and sculpture, the stage) beside paragraphs of justified German text on yellow, with a second red column of listings down the right-hand side. — An advertising sheet for the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition. Red headings, a tight table and one sans-serif build a clear order with very few means.Advertising sheet for the Bauhaus exhibition, Weimar. Oskar Schlemmer, 1923.Wikimedia Commons/CC0 1.0

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Question 1, locked
Schlemmer had to explain the whole Bauhaus to a public told it was a nest of cranks. What did each row of his table pair up?
- A teacher's name with the workshop they ran
- A claim with the evidence you could go and see
- A painting with the sculpture it inspired
- A belief with a quotation from a famous artist
Question 2, locked
On Schlemmer's sheet, red and black are used throughout. What does red tell the reader?
- It marks a label, and black marks prose
- It marks the single most important claim
- It is decoration to liven up the poster
- It marks a quotation from a teacher
Question 3, locked
A century on, which part of Schlemmer's 1923 sheet does the lesson say designers still copy?
- The justified German text block
- The column of red capitals on the right
- The headline set for three metres away
- The way a comparison table is built

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