Itten, Klee, Kandinsky: Three Ways of Teaching Vision

In the early Bauhaus, three neighbours shared a corridor and nothing else. Johannes Itten began his classes with breathing exercises and strict diets; Paul Klee sketched little diagrams of dots “going for a walk”; Wassily Kandinsky talked about points and planes as if he were teaching physics rather than painting. Put them side by side and you get something like a triptych of modern art education: three ways of teaching vision, three different stories about where creativity actually lives.