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Bauhaus: Art as Life

Until Sun Aug 12 Barbican Centre, Silk St, London, EC2Y 8DS Full details & map

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László Moholy-Nagy Prospectus '14 Bauhausbücher', 1928 - Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany

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Imagine going to an art school where the godfather of abstraction, Wassily Kandinsky, is teaching a class in wall painting? Or where pioneering modern architect Mies van der Rohe might look approvingly over your shoulder at a sketch for a bungalow? This splendid, if restrained survey of the seriously avant-garde German seat of learning, which ran from 1919-1933, sticks to who went into, what went on in and what came out of the various Bauhaus art school iterations in Weimar, Dessau and finally Berlin. In striving to teach a holistic approach to looking at and ordering the visual world, the Bauhaus inadvertently became the very Gesamtkunstwerk - the total work of art - it had been striving to help discover all along. (OW)

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Barbican Centre, Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS

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Main gallery 11am-8pm Mon, Tue, Fri, Sun; until 6pm Wed; until 10pm Thur, 10am-8pm Sat. The Curve 11am-8pm daily

£12; £8 concs; online £10/£7; under-12s free

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Comments & ratings 4/5 (Average of 8 ratings)

By Julie Shrive - May 28 2012

5/5

One of best exhibitions have ever seen as it involves fine arts and the crafts , education & history & Olympics . No wonder there is timed entrance you could have heard a pin drop. I nearly had a tear at the end pining for the days when the core values were ethical in this so called fair society .And some of us unfortunately remember what happened next

Unfortunately though concessionary prices as disabled, pensioner & Member only are for the art gallery only result on £2 off the film which doesn't seem fair . Over £10 tickets for Concessions are outrageous when theme is linked to the art gallery .

Once the Barbican was one of last bastions of decency like V&A , British Museum & the Tates now since they have become call centres, taking it in turn to be the Manager ,the decency has gone down the pan starting at the car park & online & booking offices They seem to not like the oldies & disabled .

Yet another London site that will have egg on its face come the Olympics ??!!Oh dear ??!!

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By Michael Craig - May 16 2012

Kandinsky was one of the leading artists of the Bauhaus a sometimes overlooked fact. http://www.filmdiy.com/all-movies/filmdiy/documentaries/kandinsky-and-the-russian-house Connected with this article - Download the film Kandinsky and the Russian House which covers Kandinskys development leading up to his departure to Berlin and the Bauhaus