2.1 Education for picturing reality
The famous ‘Basic Course’ at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, was designed in the mid 1920s as a trial period for students of varying educational backgrounds, and to teach them elementary design as a basis for future careers in the arts. At the invitation of Walter Gropius, the course was organised by Johannes Itten whose account of it was first published in 1963. The following is a summary of the seven topics under which he divided the main analytical routes to the analysis of design and the exposition of the practical skills required to capture reality in two dimensions.
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