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Ostwald’s theory of forms via “light matters”

thapke — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:58:24 +0000

Ostwald’s theory of forms has been the topic of a recent entry in the blog of Joost Rekveld.

In the writings of the film maker Joost Rekveld articles can be found with titles like “Symmetry and Harmonics” or “Transformations of Colour”.

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Max Bill

thapke — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:51:36 +0000

The Swiss artist and designer Max Bill founded in Germany the Ulm School for Design in the Fifties after getting his education also at the Bauhaus in the end of the Twenties. He was a theorizer about “the form” and was a proponent of a connection between mathematics as well as the physical sciences and art. Ostwald was mentioned by Bill in the afterword of the German edition of Kandinskyâ€˜s â€œPoint and line to planeâ€.

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Theory of forms

thapke — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:43:24 +0000

In connection with his color theory Ostwald was also engaged in the “harmony of forms”. Using the rules he developed Ostwald created ornaments and new forms “according the laws of combinatorics” which were “all beautiful, without any exception”!

Wilhelm Ostwald, Die Welt der Formen : Entwicklung und Ordnung der gesetzlich schÃ¶nen Gebilde (Leipzig 1922).
Wilhelm Ostwald, ‘Warum sind Kristalle schÃ¶n?’, Hamburger Fremdenblatt 94 (1922) No. 150

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