Eurythmy Performance

And just as monumental architecture arose from the age in which people thought specifically about the paths the soul takes after death — you can still see this in Catholic churches, where the altar is the tomb and even the Gothic church is built over the tomb — just as the architectural cultural idea was born out of a supersensible vision, so the plastic idea arose from an age when people thought more about how the human body is a gift from the gods. And in the same way, we can point out for each individual art form how, in the relevant epoch, the origin of the art form arose from the elevation of human beings into supersensible worlds, and how everything that tends toward naturalism in the individual arts, everything that departs from the supersensible, is decadent art, the decline of art. From this, however, it can be seen how the origin of art can only be sought in the supersensible.