Inside Bauhaus Bloom: Why We Chose Eight Colors on Black
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Olshbau Journal | Modern Wall Art & Meaning
When viewers encounter Bauhaus Bloom for the first time, what they often notice is the bold burst of color — eight sharply defined wedges emerging from a pure black field. A geometric bloom, silent yet electric.
But why eight colors? Why black? And why that center?
Let’s begin from the end.
🌑 The Black Disc: A Field of Silence
We started with a perfect black circle.
Why? Because black, to us, is not emptiness. It is potential. It absorbs light, but it also holds form. It allows color to speak clearly — without noise, without distraction. Like the Suprematist voids in Malevich’s later works or the photographic shadow spaces of Moholy-Nagy, the black disc becomes both a boundary and a stage.
It’s not a background — it’s tension.
🎯 The Center: Color as Pulse
At the core, we inserted a protruding cylinder divided into eight clean color segments. Why eight?
Because seven wasn’t enough — and twelve was noise.
Eight allows for symmetry without cliché. It recalls the structure of musical scales, the corners of compass roses, and the rhythm of balanced abstraction. Each wedge is painted in a unique hue — red, yellow, green, orange, pink, black, white, grey — but the arrangement isn’t random.
Each color was chosen for its interaction with the others — not to represent, but to create motion. Together, they form a rotating chord, like a wheel that doesn’t turn but insists on being read as kinetic.
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Why Not Safe Colors?
We deliberately avoided the familiar comfort of interior-safe palettes — beige, navy, taupe — and leaned instead into vivid immediacy. Each tone is slightly off-primary, chosen for how it collides with its neighbor and catches light.
This is color as thought. Color that makes you pause.
It is a graphic language, not a decorative gesture.
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Material and Message
Though made from paper and structural cardboard, Bauhaus Bloom is anything but fragile. It’s hand-constructed and reinforced, finished with matte acrylics to absorb just enough light and resist glossed-over meaning.
The object is signed — or delivered with certificate — not as a branding move, but to affirm its singularity. There’s only one Bauhaus Bloom. There will never be another exactly like it.
It is not a product. It is an idea, shaped and painted.
🧭 Our Purpose
Bauhaus Bloom began with a question:
How do you make something still — yet full of energy?
The answer was contrast.
Not just color contrast, but conceptual contrast:
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Silence and signal
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Precision and asymmetry
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Color and the absence of it
It’s a piece made to be seen slowly — over time.
A calm center for a chaotic world.
A bloom that never fades.
💬 Final Thought
In a time of generative abundance and mass design, Bauhaus Bloom is a reminder:
Art doesn’t have to explain itself immediately.
Sometimes it just needs to hold still long enough to matter.