While at the MOMA last Friday, I decided to go and see the Tim Burton exhibition after I visited the Demoiselles D’Avignon. I soon discovered that the Burton exhibition would not be open till the 22^nd of November. In its place was the Bauhaus exhibition. The Bauhaus was an influential school of avant-garde art. The school was founded in 1919 and shut down by the Nazi’s in the early 1930’s. According to the MOMA, “the Bauhaus brought together artists, architects, and designers in an extraordinary conversation about the nature of art in the age of technology.” The goal of the institution was to influence people to rethink the way they saw/ understood modern life.  Still today, this school of art has had a profound impact on the development of the visual arts. The MOMA exhibition showcased four hundred of these works, many of which had never been featured in the United States. Much of this exhibition displayed modernistic furniture. The one that I found captured the essence of this exhibition was an armchair by Josef Albers. (LOOK ABOVE). Although the Bauhaus was an avant-garde school of thought, I thought this chair captured the inherent flatness seen in modern art. Although the piece is three-dimensional and  cannot perfectly capture the two-dimensional flatness present in modern art,  it still gives the impression. I think this impression is created by the strong lines of the base of the chair. The square base evokes the image of a canvas. In order to see the part of the chair where you sit, a person must look through the square. In this sense, it is almost as if a person needs to look through the canvas to see the art. I also thought the color choice was very interesting. The pale brown, yellow and teal complemented each other very well. Furthermore the low saturation of the colors allowed for more attention to be paid to the structure of the piece. Had the colors been brighter, I do not think the construction would have been as significant.  The rest of the exhibition was equally interesting. As it turns out, there were Kandinsky pieces in the exhibition as well. Considering the Bauhaus is an avant-garde school, Kandinsky’s abstractness seemed appropriate for the exhibition. I highly recommend going!