{"id":23091,"date":"2012-08-26T03:33:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T03:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-weimar-bauhaus-was-founded-in-1919-on-the\/"},"modified":"2012-08-26T03:33:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T03:33:45","slug":"the-weimar-bauhaus-was-founded-in-1919-on-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-weimar-bauhaus-was-founded-in-1919-on-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Weimar Bauhaus was founded in 1919 on the premise that art \u201ccannot be taught and cannot be learned.\u201d Art is not \u201ca profession which can be mastered by study,\u201d wrote Walter Gropius in the school\u2019s first program; rather, it blossoms \u201cin rare moments of inspiration\u201d by \u201cthe grace of heaven.\u201d That Gropius launched what would become the most influential art school of the twentieth century on such contradictory grounds underscores the problem implicit in the teaching of art. Gropius was not the first to claim that art cannot be taught, and its corollary, the ideal of the \u201cborn artist,\u201d runs long and deep in the current of Western civilization. Pliny the Elder asserted in the first century that the Greek sculptor Lysippus \u201cwas no one\u2019s pupil\u201d; Albrecht D\u00fcrer, in the sixteenth century, praised the Dutch artist Geertgen tot Sint Jans as \u201ctruly a painter in his mother\u2019s womb.\u201d The tradition continues into the present with the art historian Robert Pincus-Witten\u2019s description in the early 1980s of David Salle as a \u201cpainter born.\u201d And yet most artists from Lysippus forward have been someone\u2019s pupil; David Salle\u2019s Master of Fine Arts degree is only the latest way that the title of artist is bestowed.<\/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><\/p>\n<p>Thinking about pedagogy again, on a saturday night<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weimar Bauhaus was founded in 1919 on the premise that art \u201ccannot be taught and cannot be learned.\u201d Art is not \u201ca profession which can be mastered by study,\u201d wrote Walter Gropius in the school\u2019s first program; rather, it blossoms \u201cin rare moments of inspiration\u201d by \u201cthe grace of heaven.\u201d That Gropius launched what [&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-23091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-60r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23091","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=23091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}