Sentences with phrase «from modernist architecture»

For Into Lattice Sun, South Korean artist Lee Bul drew inspiration from modernist architecture, transforming this room into a metropolitan, dramatic, and utopian landscape.

However, they also distance it from the modernist architecture.

The Irish artist imagines a speculative live / work environment drawing influence from Modernist architecture and science fiction, both of which imagine the future as a utopian space of fantastic social and political potential.

Having a vivid interest in color, structure and volumetric line drawing, the artist's iconography is drawn from modernist architecture, Christian religious fervor, and the adolescent imagination that glamorizes one's own beliefs.

The structure borrows ideas from Modernist architecture — open plan interiors, clean and horizontal lines — which Hartley has left vulnerable to the elements.

He has been testing the limits of his medium for more than two decades, producing photographs in series with subjects that range from domestic interiors to the planets, from modernist architecture to abstract psychedelia, from specific portraits to generic internet pornography.

Robert Orchardson's work draws on a range of sources from modernist architecture and futuristic design, including utopian manifestos, stage sets and details from science fiction films.

The landscape of southern California serves as a catalyst for fantasy, from its modernist architecture to its otherworldly rock formations, trees, coastline, mountains, and hills from which twinkling towns and cities can be viewed in the valleys below.

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Every urban reform movement of the past 200 years — from England's Hygiene Acts to America's City Beautiful Movement to modern zoning laws to modernist architecture to the creation of public housing and the rise of environmentalism and historic preservation — has been a response to the social and cultural problems created by industrialism.

The types of school buildings that can be described as «historic» are similarly wide - ranging — from several hundred year old buildings that remain in use as schools to modernist architecture built in the post war period.

The city has fantastic architecture spanning from the Ancient Roman empire, through Baroque and into the Modernist era.

Explore the city's broad spectrum of architecture, from its medieval roots in the Gothic quarter to the modernist, almost fantastical church that is Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia.

Tourists interested in the rich cultural heritage of Olot, with excellent examples of Modernist and Renaissance architecture, as well as guests wishing to spend their holidays enjoying nature, away from the hustle and bustle of the cities, will find that this 3 - star hotel is the ideal place to stay.

Sagmeister suggests that much of this «ugliness» in architecture was thanks to the work of Viennese Modernist Adolf Loos being «wilfully misunderstood» by the next generation of architects, who he says «covered the world with the psychotic sameness we still suffer from to this day.»

And to share that passion, it has created playful illustrated paper cutout models of Brutalist buildings in London; modernist buildings in Warsaw; and a new series, Paris Brut, featuring Brutalist architecture from the 1950s — 70s located in the city center and outlying banlieues.

Thirty years after graduating from the School of Art + Design, Julie presents a new series of works that reflect on how the modernist architecture of the campus and its utopian ideals influenced her artistic practice.

This year's shortlist consists of Knut Henriksen, whose dominating sculptures reference modernist architecture, utopian ideals and pragmatic solutions with dazzling visceral results; Vibeke Tandberg who has filled a room with among other things, 119 plaster casts of freezer doors as a comment on recycling; Lars Lauman who has crammed a room with ephemera from an era that seemed chemically obsessed, including E.T dolls and archival science material on acid attacks; while Mattias Härenstam has set up a pulley that drags a birch tree branch around the exterior of a room, blocking people from entering or exiting the doorway.

As the museum sets its sights on showcasing its expanding outdoor space, Portals will serve as a natural transition from the museum's modernist architecture to the quietude of the forest.

Engaging with the history and mission of The Arts Club itself, the two - part installation will bring together McElheny's film The Light Club of Vizcaya: A Women's Picture (2012) and a new site - specific installation titled The Club for Modern Fashions (2013), a constructed glass pavilion into which performers and guests are invited during the lunch hour, Tuesdays through Fridays, dressed in vintage attire from the 1920s to the 1970s — decades that signify the height of a modernist imperative across the cultures of fashion, design, and architecture.

Sam Jacob on traditions of hygiene in modernist architecture; Michael Soi on the Kenya Pavilion controversy; Lucas Ospina on altering power relations between artists and the market; Laura Oldfield Ford on a psychogeographic walk from East Ham High Street to Bethnal Green; Maria Lind in defence of commissioning new work; Laura McLean - Ferris on Lauren Bakst's recent performance; Jonathan Grossmalerman on how to paint death.

He draws from the domestic and industrial landscapes of Los Angeles, and often includes fragments of modernist architecture and references to popular culture.

Street scenes worthy of Lee Friedlander or Saul Leiter abut shopwindows out of late Walker Evans and figures plausibly displaced from Robert Frank's The Americans; there are hints of the New Topographics in the fragments of modernist architecture and a truck stop's desert vista.

Ornament is Crime is also interspersed with classic song lyrics, literary excerpts and insightful quotes from some of the leading figures of modernist architecture, adding depth and context to the featured images.

Ornament is Crime is a visual celebration of modernist architecture showcasing a spectacular selection of buildings from the most important architectural movement in modern history.

The book identifies modernist architecture's most important elements, from its linear shapes to industrial materials, and explores how this trailblazing style continues to thrive today.

From 2012 - 2013, I went on several visits to South Africa and Namibia, when I first came across post-colonial modernist architecture on the seafront.

References can also be seen in this collection from Mid-Century modernist art, design, architecture and ceramics.

For his first solo show in a UK public institution, Zerbini will show a series of large - scale paintings referencing modernist architecture, contemporary culture and elements from the natural environment.

Designed by architects Smith & Thompson, the critically acclaimed modernist - inspired structure of glass and Cor - ten steel is included in a number of books about contemporary architecture, and has attracted attention from all over the world.

The variety of architecture represented in the installation, a semi-credible English suburb, ranges from Georgian mansions to Tudor cottages to Modernist fortresses.

In the same West 22nd Street building, Yancey Richardson also shows a wide range of photographic imagery, from Julius Shulman's straightforward documentation of midcentury modernist architecture to Mitch Epstein's large - format color photographs of the contemporary social landscape.

The bookstore specializes in publications on contemporary art and architecture, Modernist architecture, the work of R.M. Schindler, and exhibition catalogues from both the MAK Center and the MAK Vienna.

From the interiors of modernist architecture for which she is best known, she now has moved on to photographing works that are located between architecture and sculpture.

Their projects find inspiration in sources ranging from Spanish painting to Greek modernist architecture to French new - wave film.

«Robert Orchardson's work draws upon elements like modernist architecture and design, utopian texts, or details from science fiction films.

Following on from her commission for Frieze Film, Some Ends of Things (2011), depicting an egg - person wandering around the hallways of a modernist building, Hopf's new work will also take the architecture of a modernist home as its context.

Other works on display include Seher Shah's graphite on paper drawings, Brutalist Traces (2015 - 16), of the modernist architecture of New Delhi; artist Gauri Gill's notebooks entitled «1984» (2005, 2009, 2014), from which are also displayed several photographs of the people and interior spaces of the «Widows Colony» in Tilak Vihar, where families affected by the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 were provided housing by the state; and a series of streetscape photographs by Pablo Bartholomew, including Man Asleep in Front of Political Graffiti, Calcutta (1978) which embodies how, in South Asia, history inflects the everyday.

Known for his use of saturated color and Modernist abstraction, this work is from an iconic series «Gardone,» which deviates from Förg's less - figurative mark making and captures Bauhaus architecture.

All the major American artists and works from the seventeenth century to today are included, such as epic history paintings by Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley; sublime landscapes by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederick Church; society portraits by John Singer Sargent; groundbreaking abstract expressionist and pop art by Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Andy Warhol; and challenging sculptural, installation, and video works from more recent years by Robert Gober, Fred Wilson, and Matthew Barney In architecture, dozens of different building types are illustrated and discussed, from the earliest colonial houses and churches to the most spectacular modernist and postmodernist houses, stations, museums, and iconic skyscrapers.

This exhibition at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 2017 - 18, will feature the work of 30 contemporary artists from Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela, among other countries, who have engaged with the history of modernist architecture in Latin America.

In the new series of «Rio» paintings, Morris both expands and reduces her abstract compositions, and in the Rio film, images of Rio's beaches, fruit stands, hospitals, iconic modernist architecture, football stadiums, factories and favelas are combined with images from the office of Oscar Niemeyer, the mayor of Rio and the parades of the city's famous Carnival.

11:30 am: Panel 3: Exhibition Focus: «Learning from Latin America: Art, Architecture and Visions of Modernism» This exhibition at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 2017 - 18, will feature the work of 30 contemporary artists from Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela, among other countries, who have engaged with the history of modernist architecture in Latin America.

Nigoghossian's own work, likewise, stems in part from a desire to create foreign objects from a familiar lexicon, to fabricate idiosyncratic, alien forms while referencing and employing established Art Historical modes of expression — which vary from Brutalist and Deconstructivist architecture, to Baroque painting, to Modernist European drawing, to the Abstract Expressionist sculpture of John Chamberlain.

Known for a number of larger buildings designed in what was at the time a relatively unique modernist view of architecture, Mies undertook a commission to design the Farnsworth House from Dr. Edith Farnsworth, whom Mies had met at a dinner party.