Kandinsky’s Bauhaus Questionnaire

Simmel-Handbuch

Metaphysik

Schlitte, Annika

2021
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05760-0_8 [Citations: 0]
Simmel’s Law of the Individual: A Relational Idea of Culture

Amat , Matthieu

Simmel Studies, Bd. 21 (2018), Heft 2 S.41
https://doi.org/10.7202/1043790ar [Citations: 5]

Abstract

The article examines an experimental survey that was conducted by Wassily Kandinsky and his students of the wall painting workshop at the Bauhaus Weimar in 1923. In his theoretical writings on art, Kandinsky had assumed there to be direct correspondences between basic colors (yellow, red, blue) and forms (triangle, square, circle), and he operationalized this assumption in the survey. The recent discovery of twenty-six completed questionnaires offers new insights into the scope of Kandinsky’s doctrine of color-form correspondence, and forces us to reevaluate his position regarding scientific research. Against the background of perceptual sensitization as a Bauhaus teaching method, and through a qualitative analysis of the answers that participants gave in the survey, we show that Kandinsky’s empirical investigation of color-form correspondences was an analytical tool in his attempt to foster an artistic sensibility as regards the aesthetic effects of basic artistic means.

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Kandinsky’s Bauhaus Questionnaire – Color-Form Correspondences between Introspection and Experiment. By Beatrice Immelmann, Jane Boddy, Raphael Rosenberg,Helmut Leder and Hanna Brinkmann	1