Google always honours great personalities and events in history or the beginning of any celebrated event with an inovative doodle. Today, the Google  honours acclaimed German painter Oskar Schlemmer with a Ballet Doodle. To call Schlemmer just a painter would be wrong as he was master of sculpture, designing and even choreography. He was well-known for his work "Triadisches Ballett," in which the performers and actors were transfigured into geometrical shapes. Born on 4th September 1888 in Stuttgart, today marks the 130th birth anniversary of the great artist.

Oskar Schlemmer was associated with the Bauhas school which carefully combined crafts and the fine arts. The approach of its very design was taught during the early 1990s. He gave the world a very innovative approach to the dance form of ballet which divulged more into the understanding of body and mind in different, exciting ways.  It had 3 dancers, 12 movements and 18 costumes. He himself described the performance as "artistic metaphysical mathematics," and a "party in form and colour." His ideas were not too easy to be understood.

The Google Doodle shows a character performing ballet much in shapes of a geometry which other shapes and figures making in the background. He attended art school and went on to become a director of stage research and production. He peeked into the architectural aspect of the human body and studied every movement like an art form. While he experimented with painting and sculpture, his theatre designs were also much appreciated. He was a great influence to artists like David Bowie.

Schlemmer described his themes of work as, "the human figure in space, its moving and stationary functions, sitting, lying, walking, standing” as being “as simple as they are universally valid." He died on April 13, 1943.

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