Oskar Shlemmer once described the themes of his work: “the human figure in space, its moving and stationary functions, sitting, lying, walking, standing” as being “as simple as they are universally valid.”
German artist, choreographer and stage designer Oskar Schlemmer thrilled the world with his groundbreaking “Triadic Ballet”.
Space Dance, Gesture Dance, Rod Dance, Triadic Ballet, Oskar Schlemmer developed his costumed, masked dancer into an “art figure” synthesizing dance, costume and music.
German artist, choreographer and stage designer Oskar Schlemmer thrilled the world with his groundbreaking “Triadic Ballet”.
Space Dance, Gesture Dance, Rod Dance, Triadic Ballet, Oskar Schlemmer developed his costumed, masked dancer into an “art figure” synthesizing dance, costume and music.
Oskar Shlemmer 130th Birthday
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- Google Doodle:
The search engine Google celebrated last 4th September, Oskar Schlemmer’s 130th Birthday with a awesome animated Doodle.
Bulbous mechanical creatures wearing metallic masks are not the usual image that comes to mind when one thinks of ballet. But that’s precisely what Oskar Schlemmer used to stage his ‘Triadic Ballet,’ a groundbreaking production that premiered in Stuttgart, Germany in 1922.
The Doodle celebrating the artist, pays homage to Schlemmer’s “Triadisches (Triadic) Ballet”, the work which brought him international fame, with an animated representation of a seemingly mechanical ballerina in a metal mask.
Oskar Schlemmer
Photo: unknown, 1928.
- Some biographical notes:
After pursuing apprenticeships in inlay and marquetry, began studying at art school in his home city, under the tutelage of prominent German landscape painters.
Schlemmer turned to sculpture after the war, exhibiting at Berlin’s Gallery Der Sturm, before becoming one of the most influential figures of the Bauhaus movement, teaching stage research and production at the eponymous school in Weimar.
Oskar Schlemmer, who almost nine decades after his death remains one of the most influential 21st century aesthetes, was the original multihyphenate.
Scouted by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius in 1921, the Stuttgart-born painter, sculptor and choreographer became one of the first masters of the “staaliche” movement in Weimar.
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Costumes from Schlemmer's Triadisches Ballett (1922)
Born on 4th September 1888, Schlemmer was the youngest of six children who attended art school before traveling to Weimar, Germany, to join Walter Gropius’ avant-garde Bauhaus, where he became director of stage research and production. Schlemmer also experimented with painting, sculpture.
Group at Table, 1923
Oskar Schlemmer
via Sothebys
However, it's his creative theater designs that are most remembered, influencing future artists like David Bowie.
Bauhaus ballet costume by Oskar Schlemmer
based on Kansai Yamamoto / David Bowie
via Pinterest
based on Kansai Yamamoto / David Bowie
via Pinterest
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In his ideas, Oskar Schlemmer used elaborate costumes to transform costumed and masked dancers into 'artificial figures' in which dance, costume and music are united. Space Dance, Gesture Dance, Rod Dance, Hoop Dance, Metal Dance, Form Dance, Scenery Dance, and the Triadic Ballet.
Oskar Schlemmer was a designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school. In 1923 he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working some time at the workshop of sculpture.
His most famous work is Triadisches Ballett, in which the actors are transfigured from the normal to geometrical shapes.
Costums by Oskar Schlemmer (Bauhaus) for Ballet Triadic
at Metropol Theater in Berlin
credits: Ernst Schneider, 1926/ Getty Images
With three dancers, 12 movements, and 18 costumes, Schlemmer’s innovative approach to ballet broke with all convention to explore the relationship between body and space in new and exciting way. He described the performance as “‘artistic metaphysical mathematics,” and a “party in form and color.”
Education:
It would be important to give a different meaning of Art in school curricula and to have good teachers of Art providing professional first development for kids that could, in a different level of education, continue Art studies at Higher Schools of Arts
In our days, digital culture is well-come into the school curriculum as an important tool to tackle the world's toughest problems creating bridges and establish a truly intercultural world, where diversity can be celebrated, a world where different cultures not only coexist but value each other for their contributions and potential.
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Treppenszene (Stairway Scene), 1932
Oskar Schlemmer
Oskar Schlemmer
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg
Education:
My usual readers know I write very often about Art in education. Art are absolutely necessary to a complete and better education of children and young people.
Discovering Art in school education, some students can pick their inner path on Art and later they will choose Art colleges and Higher Schools of Arts to develop their aptitude by a real learning of Art no matter the field.
credits: Amy Zschaber slisdeshare
Students attending schools in high poverty communities have less access to Art instruction than their peers in more affluent communities.
Pressure to improve test scores in other content areas is another top barrier to Art education.
And it's a scientific idea that Arts - music, dance, theater - are a wonderful therapy for hyperactive kids that have a great difficulty to concentrate.
And it's a scientific idea that Arts - music, dance, theater - are a wonderful therapy for hyperactive kids that have a great difficulty to concentrate.
Art give them the concentration discipline and the pleasure to express with creativity.
It's true that a lot of schools don't have specialists in Art in full-time-equivalent, although secondary schools are much more likely than elementary schools to employ specialists.
It's true that a lot of schools don't have specialists in Art in full-time-equivalent, although secondary schools are much more likely than elementary schools to employ specialists.
However teachers with a special taste to Art can motivate students including Art into school curricula. And digital resources as this Doodle can motivate students to discover their path and develop aesthetic skills for life.
In our days, digital culture is well-come into the school curriculum as an important tool to tackle the world's toughest problems creating bridges and establish a truly intercultural world, where diversity can be celebrated, a world where different cultures not only coexist but value each other for their contributions and potential.
The Abstract, 1920
Oskar Schlemmer
Curricula: Arts ; Literature ; Design ; Digital Art.
Level: All levels.
- Focus on Art (Vocational Education) ; School of Arts (Higher Education).
- Secondary education: cross-curricular Literature & Art.
G-Souto
08.09.2018
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