Bauhaus…

The title of your next project Bauhaus was given the week after your study trip to Berlin.
I was inspired by the a Wassily Kandinsky questionnaire online that ask you to match the colours blue, red and yellow to the shapes, a triangle, a circle and a square and to see if what you chose matched Kandinsky’s colour theory. His answers were yellow for the triangle because it is a sharp colour, blue circle because it is a spiritual colour and shape, and a red square because both are earthbound.

My answers were different as well as my thoughts behind them. I chose red for the triangle because red remind me of fore and the triangle is the Alchemy symbol of fire, yellow for the circle because it is a happy and cheerful colour with no shape edges, and blue for the square because it was the only colour left.
I experimented using the idea that people may associated the colours with different shapes so I swapped them around and experimented with layout and negative space.

Inspired by Paul Bush’s Furniture Poetry I decided to further this idea and make a fun animation based on these three shapes and colours. I wanted to explore with stop motion animation and wanted to see how far I could take it.

I made several trials each using the same methods of animation and shapes but the shapes were doing different things in each animation. I also explored with layering the clips on top of one another, inverting the colours and experimenting with sound. I Used story boards to help me plan my animation and keep it on track.

I really enjoyed this project, my simple idea of shapes and colours relationship with them. This allowed my to further the research into looking at how colour relates to sound and how colours and shapes can create different sounds. My final work was created similar to my trials however the content of the animation id different and as well as the sound and filters I added.

This project allowed me to explore more with stop motion animation and to have fun with it.

My inspiration for this project includes my study trip to Bauhaus in Berlin, Paul Bush, Wassily Kandinsky colour theory on how colour relates to sound, Len Lye, Norman McLaren, and Daphne Orams Oramics.