What is an art school to me?

An art school to me is somewhere that I get to learn the skills I need and want to learn. The school can range from photography to graphic design. 

Being a fashion and textile student in an art school means that I can use different subjects in my own pieces. I can use the photography for a fashion shoot, the graphic design can help with print designs.

An art school isn’t always used to learn something new, it can also be somewhere it improve on the skills that you  already have. People will start with different levels of skills, some being more advanced than others. Thai will mean that there will be a range of different work done by the students. 

What is an Art School?

1670s – The beginning, people sat round a statue or piece of art and had to draw it

1860s – All work was predictable, all female nudes, tedious but beautiful

1863 – Edauant Manet – painted naked women but not the similarly predictable way as before, she was painted naked rather than nude. People didn’t like the naked side of it – it made women look more vulnerable and weaker.

UNOVIS Russuan Art School 

1919 – Lyons Feininger – ‘The cathedral of the future’ A woodcut picture of Bauhaus – it is to represent the idea of Bauhaus, very clean cut and sharp edged.

1926 – Bauhaus – influential German art school, this school specialised in all art including pottery, theatre and painting

A graphic design poster was created for Bauhaus it was edgy and modernised to give it a different representation. 

Moholy Nagy 

1926 ‘City Lights’

1928 ‘Berlin Radio Tower’

These pieces gave Bauhaus a ‘industrial’ and ‘technological’ character.

There was ever the start of art and design production and sculpture.

1931 – John Baldessan – founder of the ‘post studies’ course at California institute of art (CalArts) 

‘Tips for artist who want to sell’

Michael Craig Martin and Jon Thompson 

 – transformed teaching and abolished departmental structure

Sir William Goldstream

1963 – Introdution to Diploma in Art and Design qualification for 18+ (DipAD)

1974 DipAD became BA (Hons) – a qualification that reflects at a more intellectual or academic level, students wanted this and protested for it. 

Frankfurt 

Rehberger – designed cafe for the school, he wanted to ‘destroy the expectations’

Bevys – they let anyone of any kind of skills into their school

UnitedNationsPLazy – all the lectures ate online and the documentisation for anyone to read 

What can Art school teach you?

• Skills – all skills in all subjects
• Lectures
• Techniques