The Vienna Workshop’s Role in Linking Plastic art Aspects with Applied Ones

Abstract

This article shows the most important tasks of the Vienna Workshop, in linking the plastic and applicable aspects together to unify arts in all fields.

These arts had different objects and styles of artists and architectural designers, whose ideas and works inspired the applicable artisan products.

An important question arises here: What are the finical or nonfinancial feasibilities of investing the formation aesthetics in the applicable and vocational objects of the Vienna Workshop?

In early stages, the Vienna Workshop heavily sought to develop unique forms of art in an Austrian artistic style to make arts available for all. In

 the production phases, the steps aimed to merge the designs with applicable crafts in all field, and revealed the aesthetic value of geometrical tendency, strongly explicit in the works. The Workshop linked arts together, and expanded the cultural tasks of the performing arts.

The Vienna Workshop’s Book designing art was luxurious. It revived old techniques through artistic portrayed folk stories for children. This stimulated a lot of ideas and tendencies to the Vienna Workshop, years later. They were manifested in geometrical visions; the most important of which are Cubism, Bauhaus, visual Art, and Hard Edge.

In conclusion, the Vienna Workshop heralded to remove boundaries between plastic, applicable or even architectural. In a single art work, we find various concepts, methods and raw materials. This diversity constituted a model for a lot of trends- succeeding the Vienna Workshop- to be followed.