Abstruse Bag Front

The emphasis is the bright orange fish and purple anemone around it. I made the things around it darker colors to make it stand out more along with putting white stars on the anemone that vary in opacity to grab your attention. The large swirl (ink) leads your attention around the bag, along with putting objects on the creases to make different sides have different parts of the same shape. I used things that are in focus and out of focus to make it unique, in making the things that are supposed to be closer darker, and the things that are supposed to be farther away lighter and more opaque. My word is abstruse and my bag demonstrates this word because it is supposed to be difficult to understand and mysterious so I thought of the ocean. Space had also struck me as difficult to understand so I incorporated that in the form of stars on the anemone while they can also be thought of as starfish.

Abstruse Bag Side 1

Abstruse Bag Side 2

Abstruse Bag Back

"MR" Armchair by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; 1927

"Kubus" Stacking Containers by Vereinigte Lausitzer Glaswerke; 1938

Fotogramm by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy; 1926

Bauhaus School Information

The Bauhaus school was located in Germany, and it was later moved to Dessau. It was founded by Walter Gropius in 1919 and ran until 1933 when it was forced to shut down under pressure from the Nazi political party. Bauhaus' designs were so different because it's main focus was on reimagining the real world into something completely different. A craft-based curriculum was taught in which it would push designers to create useful and beautiful objects that were functional.

Hand Made

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Abstruse

Abstruse (adj.)- Difficult to understand; obscure

Kerry James Marshall Self Portrait