Here's how Oskar Schlemmer, the person behind the theme of today's Google Doodle, revolutionised ballet

Google on Tuesday celebrated Oskar Schlemmer's 130th birthday with a doodle.

"Born on this day in 1888, Schlemmer was the youngest of six children who attended art school before traveling to in Weimar, Germany to join Walter Gropius’s avant-garde Bauhaus, where he became director of stage research and production. Schlemmer also experimented with painting, sculpture, but it was his creative theater designs that are most remembered, influencing future artists like David Bowie," Google said in a blog to pay homage to the artist.

While continuing their tribute, Google wrote that Schlemmer was known for going unconventional when it came to ballet.

"Bulbous mechanical creatures wearing metallic masks are not the usual image that comes to mind when one thinks of ballet. But that’s precisely what Oskar Schlemmer used to stage his ‘Triadic Ballet,’ a groundbreaking production that premiered in Stuttgart, Germany in 1922."

The play had three dancers, 12 movements, and 18 costumes, and showcases Schlemmer's approach to ballet and how at the time, he broke away with conventional methods. "Schlemmer’s innovative approach to ballet broke with all convention to explore the relationship between body and space in new and exciting ways. He described the performance as “‘artistic metaphysical mathematics,” and a “party in form and colour.”," Google said.

Describing his theme of work, Schlemmer said, "The human figure in space, its moving and stationary functions, sitting, lying, walking, standing” as being “as simple as they are universally valid.”