The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture.
Interpretation
The Bauhaus movement aims to unify various forms of art and craft into a cohesive whole.
Walter Gropius highlights the vision of the Bauhaus movement to integrate all creative disciplines, such as sculpture, painting, and handicrafts, into a single framework that enhances architecture. This holistic approach seeks to break the barriers between different forms of artistic expression, advocating for a new way of seeing and experiencing art as interconnected rather than isolated.
In practice
This quote can inspire students in an art class to explore interdisciplinary projects.
The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting.
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music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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