Kandinsky's Bauhaus Questionnaire
- Author(s)
- Beatrice Immelmann, Jane Boddy, Raphael Rosenberg, Helmut Leder, Hanna Brinkmann
- 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.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Art History, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology
- Journal
- Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft
- Volume
- 64
- Pages
- 261–287
- No. of pages
- 26
- ISSN
- 0044-2186
- Publication date
- 02-2020
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 604020 Art theory, 604019 Art history, 603101 Aesthetics
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/kandinskys-bauhaus-questionnaire(9eb8aa6b-a8e2-4ea1-9b25-610f2f518d07).html