Signifying Applied Art

Hermanm Muthesisus - The Significanace of Applied Art

In this passage by Hermann he talks about how appled art has been around for many years. As for artistic, cultural, and economic groupings, applied art is used for many different things and all of them yet have they're own goals. I personally see it now as a money skeem for most, each product is made so that it doesn't last long but yet is applied to make people want it making them pay fortunes to get and keep what they want.

You can tell by these two pieces of art that they are obviously one thing but altered to applied to be something else.

Walter Gropius - Manifesto of the Staatliche Bauhaus in Weimar

They had to produce a "unity" but how is it possible to do that if art cannot be taught? I feel like this is the most important part because you can't sit down and learn art, you have to practice it over and over again. This unity is important because its creating a physical bond with you work of you actually making it instead of just learning it.

You can not learn art, it's just a matter of practicing over and over again with sketches or diagrams.

Le Corbusier - Type-Needs:Type-Furniture

When Corbusier says "To search for the human scale, for human function is to define human needs." All humans, when looked at on a basic scale, are all about the same. Therefore, when making things, people base it off of what we need. It is when you have this function of what the human needs are that you are able to make it satisfying, and that is what Le Corbusier was saying decorative art was.

 These are an example of how on the human scale, we are all about the same and its then that design stuff off the basics of the human body for a lot of things.