Category Archives: Art History

Earths Oldest Concrete Discovery

Presented very persuasively, challenging the established academia on human origins and migration, this video contains a discovery that is hard to explain by current science.

 

Finely decorated Lapita
pottery from New Caledonia

 

Abstract:
To manufacture the homogeneous cement vessels, there had to be time to develop this technology. Humans were not inhabiting this part of the Earth where the vessels were found and dated. Pre-Flood graveyard, metallurgy, pier supports, energy grid, or storage containers?
Quite a mystery.

Incredible Magical Mystery Slab


Beth She’arim was a cemetery located in Galilee. There is a cave of great antiquity.
In the cave was found a great slab of material resting under meters of silt and debris.
The link below is a direct page from the Corning Museum of Glass. This article tells the main academic story.
https://www.cmog.org/article/mystery-slab-beth-shearim
The update of March 2019 in this particular article expresses older and experimental transition.


Abstract:
The glass could be much older because of timelines established by academic procedures.
Certain materials are difficult to date, so surrounding artifacts, are used to give an estimate.
The main question is, “why so large”?
Nothing in the world except our large telescopic mirror glass matches its weight.
Quite a mystery.

4,000-Year-Old Egyptian Tomb

The Egyptian legacy continues to fascinate our interest in human origins.

This picture was taken on April 13, 2019, shows a view inside the newly-discovered tomb of the ancient Egyptian nobleman “Khewi” dating back to the 5th dynasty (2494-2345 BC), at the Saqqara necropolis, about 35 kilometers south of the capital Cairo. (Photo by Mohamed el-Shahed / AFP) (Photo credit should read MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images)

 

https://www.thisisinsider.com/newly-discovered-4000-years-old-tomb-in-egypt-looks-freshly-painted-2019-4

Bauhaus, Rockets & The Atom Bomb

bauhaus-characterAsymmetry, elegance, beauty and practicality, this describes some of the Bauhaus design curricula. The school emphasized a teaching method that shifted the mindset from competition-focused to a focus on personal potential and universal purpose. Bauhaus-stage-charactersLead by Walter Gropius, Bauhaus was founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany. The Bauhaus teaching style resembled a utopian artists’ guild. To set up a new way of living, the Bauhaus taught principles that instituted creative design and technical disciplines. Community living in a unified-designed environment can influence an individual to adopt a more creative design awareness. Design knowledge can add vitality to live a better life. The school moved to Dessau, Germany in 1924. By 1933, the Nazi political party had forced the school to close

bauhaus.

Consemueller_1926_bauhaus-chairteapotMarcel Breuer and Joseph Albers immigrated to the United States to take teaching positions at Yale. After Walter Gropius went to Harvard, Moholy-Nagy eventually established a New Bauhaus school.

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In 1922, Bauhaus principles were introduced in the United States with The Chicago Association of Arts and Industries. The association’s primary purpose was to open a school of design. Funding to initiate the New Bauhaus school was a major problem. Maholy-Nagy’s hard work and persistence eventually led to the opening of The School of Design in 1939. A few years later in 1944, a new board of directors dissolved The School of Design and formed the new Institute of Design. What started out as an artists’ guild and design school with a pedagogical teaching approach in Germany, evolved into one of the most prestigious industrial design graduate schools in the United States, the Illinois Institute of Technology – Institute of Design.

german-rocket-pioneersAs World War II progressed, the import of other highly regarded Germans was essential to the U.S. war effort. A secret project “Operation Paperclip” involved 88 German scientists and rocket technology production. Other German scientists provided necessary help developing the Atomic Bomb.

 

 

The video shows a quick fundamental review of the Bauhaus School’s history, philosophy and achievements.

Klee 9000


The Swiss-German Paul Klee (December 18, 1879 – June 29, 1940) taught in Weimar, Germany’s Bauhaus school of art, design, and architecture, with Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky. Klee’s lecture writings, Paul Klee Notebooks, on form and design theory, became one of the most respected in the Modern art movement. Klee’s extensive work in color theory allowed the experimentation to express moods, beliefs, dry humor, and his childlike perspective. In 1919, at the Academy of Art in Stuttgart, Klee created artworks influenced by Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism, and Abstraction. The artwork produced is difficult to categorize because Klee combines and morphs the various art movement styles to create his own. He usually worked alone and analyzed art trends based on his perspective. Klee used inventive methods and techniques to apply many media types to different painting surfaces. Over the years, Klee created about 9000 artworks. The videos combined show a small amount of Klee’s artwork accompanied by music.