“Possessed with the idea of finding new symblos, he considered it a “mark of Cain in our culture that we have no symbols any more and – worse – that we are unable to create them.” Endowed with the power of genius to penetrate beyond rational thought, he found images which expressed metaphysical ideas, e.g. the star form of the spread-out fingers of the hand, the sign of infinity ∞ of “the folded arms.”
-Walter Gropius, writing about Bauhaus icon Oskar Schlemmer
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