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"Art is not a "profession."  There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman.  The artist is an exalted craftsman,  In rare moments of inspiration, moments beyond the control of his will, the grace of heaven may cause his work to blossom into art.  But proficiency in his craft is essential to every artist.  Therein lies the source of creative imagination."
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-Walter Gropius

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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BAUHAUS
BAUHAUS - DESSAU, GERMANY
1926
 
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The Bauhaus, an art and architectural school, was founded in the year 1919.  Although the school was forced to close its doors when the Nazi's came to power, its ideas and philosophy are still influencing the world.  The name "Bauhaus" derives from the word "bauen" meaning to build, including the idea of creating in a spiritual sense, and "haus" meaning the house or building itself.  Following the war and Germany's defeat-inspired desire for a renaissance, the Bauhaus sought to define a new "style" as an international school dealing with international politics.  Designed by its director, Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus remains today one of the most impressive examples of modern architecture.  I have a particular sympathy with the plan of this institution, which is very functionally articulated and there is no challenging the bold ribbons and walls of glass, the masterly combination of a variety of rhythms of regularity to produce a composition at once rich and serene. 

There was a delightful sense of camaraderie among the members of the Bauhaus, all seeking a new way of life.  The Bauhaus perhaps represents one of the greatest ideas that has arisen in the field of education in this century where the main principles of cooperation and creativity were wrought rigourously into everything purported by the school that detested traditional academicism. 
 
"Let us create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions which raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist.  Together let us conceive and create the new building of the future, which can embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will rise one day towards heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of new faith"
-Walter Gropius

 

 
 

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