According to the articles, what was lacking in art and education of the past was teaching of art and the practical curriculum. As mention in the “Gropius Bauhaus”, “The theoretical curriculum of an art academy combined with the practical curriculum of an arts and crafts school was to constitute the basis of a comprehensive system”. This also coincides with the role in which the education and “the academy” should teach its students, the ability to use said craft in a practical environment.
For the role that typography and photography have in art is that it is considered a “Service art” and not “Fine art”, that it is also used to add to the deeper visuals of the artist’s work. In the the article “Bayer on typography”, “typography is a service art, not a fine art…. but in context with the ever-widening visual experiences that the picture symbol, photo, film, and television brought.
The approach of typography for artist in the future is not to be in pursuit of a “new style” as forcefully searching for something new is only able to offer superficial gains, as in the achievement is only shallow with no true focus to it. It talks about how the lack of a new style being develop isn’t a negative, that the desperate pursuit of something new isn’t always going to offer a fruitful result. The designer should be able to use the typography in a much wider scale by envisioning its uses in different manners for their work.
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