Goodbye To Berlin.

Berlin in the 1920s was considered pivotal in the emerging artistic scene.

Brothels, dance clubs, strip bars and caberet were erupting, The physical act of love between people of the same gender, and everybody else, was indulged, as were drugs of all kinds.

Experimentation was cool and anything that pleased the senses was permitted.

Pleasure was everything. The Expressionists were the first to ingest cocaine, morphine and heroin and to represent the experience in their artwork.

 Artist who were influential around this time include Otto Dix, John Heartfield and George Grosz who were involved in the Dadaism, The dadaism movement started wen world war 1 was goin on, it was an artistic movement that emphasized surrealism and irrationality. Developing from cubism, dadaism consisted of collage, photo montage, assemblage and readymades

Dix

Grosz

Heartfeild

This is a photomontage/collage i created representing life today. 

Another movement in the 20s was the Bauhaus movement
Bauhaus was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught

Over the years the Bauhaus attracted one of the most remarkable art faculties in history. Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Georg Muche, and Oskar Schlemmer were among those who taught painting, graphic arts, and stage design.

Schlemmer

Kandinsky

Feininger

Muche

Klee

I personally love abstract art and i really like each of the images above especially Kandinsky, he is a favourite artist of mine, I love the colourings, shapes and patterns he uses in his work, I came across this make up (below) and thought it was cool.

The Bauhaus movement – The first proclamation of the Bauhaus declared: "Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew the composite character of a building as an entity... Art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman... Together let us conceive and create the new building of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will rise one day toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith."

Here is a image of a make up i did having a play around, it was art inspired to get a feel for bold colours, layering of colours and texture.