{"id":23038,"date":"2012-09-04T19:31:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T19:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/it-was-precisely-this-division-that-gropius\/"},"modified":"2012-09-04T19:31:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T19:31:25","slug":"it-was-precisely-this-division-that-gropius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/it-was-precisely-this-division-that-gropius\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It was precisely this division that Gropius intended the Bauhaus to heal. \u201cThere is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman,\u201d he declared in his 1919 manifesto. Dismissing both the old academy model and the new regimented design classroom, he concluded by appealing to the vision of the medieval guild: \u201cThere are no teachers and pupils at the Bauhaus, but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.\u201d But Gropius\u2019 apprentices could no longer become twelfth-century stonecutters, and by the time of the Bauhaus\u2019 move to Dessau in 1925, its ideal craftsman was an industrial designer, fashioning objects in metal, glass, and plastic for industrial production. Like Leonardo before him, Gropius insisted on first principles, but his were not those of disegno as figurative representation\u2014a copy of this world made beautiful\u2014but rather of design as the projection of a new world. Those principles were established in the Bauhaus\u2019 famous Vorkurs, the foundation course taught over the years by Johannes Itten, Josef Albers, and L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy. A comprehensive curriculum organized by materials and procedures followed from that foundation, a technique-based syllabus borrowed from the Gewerbeschulen and a format now standard in American art schools and university art departments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laphamsquarterly.org\/essays\/howard-singerman-portraits-of-the-artist.php?page=all\">Portraits of the Artist &#8211; Lapham\u2019s Quarterly<\/a> a summary of the history of art pedagogies in the western tradtion.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was precisely this division that Gropius intended the Bauhaus to heal. \u201cThere is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman,\u201d he declared in his 1919 manifesto. Dismissing both the old academy model and the new regimented design classroom, he concluded by appealing to the vision of the medieval guild: \u201cThere are no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-5ZA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}