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In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

As he does, «The Little Prince» makes a remarkable stylistic leap from the accomplished but familiar CG environs of these opening scenes (big - eyed, bobble - headed humans; modernist - futurist design influences) into 2D stop - motion animation, bringing the world of Saint - Exupery's original story to life in beautiful handcrafted images based on the author's own crudely elegant watercolors (seen in the book's first printing and all subsequent editions).

there's so much to love about the film: the sound design, by Ben Burtt, is incredible adding to the tactile sense of the objects as never before in an animated film; the modernist soundtrack by Thomas Newman, mixed with a wonderful Louis Armstrong version of «La vie en rose» and a couple of songs from Hello, Dolly!

Described as a «jewel» of modernist design, the dramatically scalloped lagoon with cascading waterfall has been the stage for Ester Williams» wet ballets.

Music can also be used as well to enhance level play through and finally level designs can be changed from retro to a modernist 3D element style found exactly in New Super Mario Bros..

Forming part of his Tsukumogami series (meaning a type of Japanese spirit), his radical designs are greatly inspired by the early experiments of the Russian and Italian Modernist movements, as well as Dada inspired concepts of perceived realities.

On Edge also includes tabletop sculpture by Anthony Caro (1924 - 2013), with the installation utilizing iconic modernist tables by designers such as Charles and Ray Eames and George Nelson generously provided by Design Within Reach.

At the core of his work is an exploration of modernist design and the public realm - his installations recall archetypal 20th century landscapes, such as playgrounds, urban parks, the abandoned garden and the corporate lobby as well as modernist interior motifs and familiar objects like fireplaces and lamps presented in entirely new forms.

Under the new leadership of Rodman Primack, who made his mark in London as chairman of Phillips de Pury & Company, the tented design fair translated the branding sponsorship of Perrier - Jouët, Audi, Fendi, Louis Vuitton and Swarovski into the dazzle of such over-the-top showpieces as a glittered sculpture of King Kong climbing Dubai's Burj Khalifa hotel, a monumental wood - hewn structure commissioned from Seattle architect Olson Kundig to house the cafeteria, furniture commissioned by Herman Miller from French modernist Pierre Paulin circa 1972, but realised only now, and a stream of technology - driven works involving a table whose motor sensors raised handcrafted metal flora at the viewer's approach, a clock spinning out countless time zones beforesettling on local time, and an installation by architect Jeanne Gang and photographer James Balog involving a resin iceberg, pierced with brilliants and set against an Arctic panorama.

Langsam is best known for her paintings of iconic Modernist buildings designed by celebrated architects such as Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier.

Kamrooz Aram, a Brooklyn - based artist whose works often challenge a modernist disdain for decoration, shares his thoughts on ornament and its complex relationship to modernist painting and exhibition design as demonstrated in his own varied practice in which painting, collage, sculpture, and the art of display operate as equals.

[64] Just as cars had replaced the horse, so modernist design should reject the old styles and structures inherited from Ancient Greece or from the Middle Ages.

Throughout his career Rudolf Stingel has put pressure on the modernist resistance to decoration, even presenting a stylized floral design of a Baroque - inspired wallpaper as a freestanding abstract painting.

While Meckseper's earlier vitrine works commented on contemporary consumer culture using the shop window as an example and focus point for civic unrest and protest in our late capitalist society, her current works allude to the political dimension of early modernist display architecture and design between World War I and II in Weimar Germany.

Modernist design also began to enter the mainstream of popular culture, as simplified and stylized forms became popular, often associated with dreams of a space age high - tech future.

Richard Meier is an American abstract artist and Modernist architect best known for designing such iconic museums as the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and the Getty Center in Los Angeles.

Drawing on modernist architecture, Israeli Kibbutzim, the plays of Bertolt Brecht, and Constructivist set design as influences, Meromi will create a series of sculptural environments that are continually altered through off - hours «rehearsals» that will take place in the gallery.

«Italian Futurism, 1909 - 1944: Reconstructing the Universe» aims to examine paintings and sculptures that have long been recognized as modernist masterpieces alongside works of architecture, design and pure public spectacle that fueled the dream of a total Futurist art.

These three artists embed forms associated with modernist architecture and design as well as Minimalism into their sculptures and works on paper.

Central to Crowner's practice is research into the history of 20th century abstraction and modernist design, as well as an obvious penchant for textile production.

Twentieth Century Modernism, Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely, continues a series of sculptures in which modernist design forms are remade as reflective objects and displayed in environments of endlessly repeating mirrored reflections.

A new sculptural work emphasizing a connection to modernist aesthetics and design as well as a presentation of smaller, collage works will be presented in the main galleries as well.

In this regard what Greenberg and Fried theorize as a «strictly optical» space of pure painting, Hamilton pictures as a strictly scopophilic space of pure design; and what Greenberg and Fried theorize as a modernist subject, fully autonomous and «morally alert», Hamilton projects as its apparent opposite, a fetishistic subject openly desirous.

The painter and the modernist pioneer Josef Albers designed this set of accent tables as the study in modern design.

In other pieces in the show, everyday objects such as books are transformed by applying to them the geometry of paper ornaments and minimalist sculpture (Minimal Bibliography), and photographed window fences with geometric designs are isolated from their functional environment by cutting the prints and flattening the illusionistic space of the photograph, thus relating those specific daily life situations with the idealistic language of modernist geometric abstraction (Popular Geometry).

The form speaks to the sheer variety of musical expression while simultaneously referencing modernist sculpture, and was created as part of the conceptual design phase for the National Music Centre of Canada.

While they might now feel a little overshadowed by the later fate of modernist design, they can also be read as an attempt to make the ideas powering Clark's artistic production relevant to a wider audience, and to integrate them with lived experience.

Those distinct Modernist influences, her work in her father's architectural office, plus such artists as Howard Hodgkin, Paul Klee, Josef and Anni Albers, Sophie Taeuber - Arp, Calder, Cy Twomby, and Brice Marden, and her former careers in textile design and illustration, all inform her work.

Reminiscent of office cubicles, barriers, waiting areas and processes of renovation, they operate as semi-autonomous abstractions and reiterate Gillick's interest in the legacy of «applied modernism», the two way movement between utilitarian design and modernist art and architecture.

As creatives — whose services include graphic design and art direction for print, web, and video — they're known for bringing clients a cool cachet and a contemporary look while remaining grounded in a love of the classics, from old movie typography to modernist art to the work of mid-century design icons.

Koppe went on to promote the modernist program as Head of Visual Design and Fine Arts at the Institute of Design (ID) at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and later as Professor of Art at UIC.

Koppe's rigorous experimentation with form, mastery of diverse media and interest in design reflect his experience as a student of transplanted European modernists like László Moholy - Nagy and Alexander Archipenko at Chicago's New Bauhaus in the late 1930s.

Last fall's circa 1963 included work by artists as diverse as Josef Albers, Ben Shahn, and Yoko Ono, and illustrated the multiplicity of themes, materials, and styles that had bloomed while the aging modernist toiled on the Carpenter Center design in his Paris studio (with the help of Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente, a Chilean architect).

As well as giving a feminist reading of modernist design, Murdoch offers an incisive commentary on its materials, highlighting their sheen and transparency but also their degradation and vulnerabilitAs well as giving a feminist reading of modernist design, Murdoch offers an incisive commentary on its materials, highlighting their sheen and transparency but also their degradation and vulnerabilitas giving a feminist reading of modernist design, Murdoch offers an incisive commentary on its materials, highlighting their sheen and transparency but also their degradation and vulnerability.

The 11 - story Modernist building, home to Jet and Ebony magazines starting in 1971, was heralded as the first major downtown Chicago building designed by an African - American architect since the 18th century.

As a new blockbuster exhibition of modernist art, architecture and design opens at the V&A, we present a G2 special celebrating the Modern movement.

From May, the Barbican will show Bauhaus: Art as Life, the biggest UK exhibition of the German modernist design school's work for 40 years.

In this way, modernist, often aesthetic criteria were transferred and assessed as graphic design, while the social, cultural, and historical importance of the posters was often left out of consideration.

Self - described as an «American painter of signs,» Robert Indiana (born 1928) has interpreted the postwar American semiotic landscape through a unique merging of Pop's graphic snap with American modernist painting's codes of sexuality and use of advertising designs.

The Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam presents A Sign of Autumn — Vincent Vulsma a solo - exhibition on view 15 October — 27 November 2011, By employing strategies of spatio - temporal montage, Vulsma brings together objects and patterns taken from their contexts in ethnographic collections and the canons of modernist design and photography, deliberately moving back and forth along the lines between what is classified as commodity, art or ethnographic object.

His new sculptural installation in the North Galleries of the White Cube gallery in Bermondsey takes as its starting point the iconic modernist penguin pool designed by architect Berthold Lubetkin for ZSL London Zoo in 1943, which acts as an amphitheatre for performances by dancers and musicians during the course of the exhibition.

At the heart of this designscape, sits a library table designed by Jean Prouvé for the Maison de l'Etudiant in Paris; but to this quote, Boyce adds a further reference in the form of a hanging mobile, immediately evocative of work by Modernist artists such as Alexander Calder.

b. 1969 Haarlem, Netherlands Born 1969, Haarlem, Netherlands / Lives and works in Los Angeles, California, and Amsterdam, Netherlands Lara Schnitger applies domestic arts, such as sewing and quilting, to a brand of sculpture - making that merges design with modernist architecture.

Sitting on 77 hectares of reclaimed land along Manila Bay, the Cultural Centre was designed by the modernist architect Leandro Locsin as the nucleus of Imelda Marcos» vision for «A New Society» — the rebirth of the Philippine nation under her and Ferdinand's auspices.

While at Hans Sumpf, Bitters created architectural murals, tiles, bird houses, planters and sculptural objects — designs that would earn him recognition later on as a pioneer of the organic modernist craft movement.

«Drawing upon the Cubo - futurist, Constructivist and Suprematist design principles of his native Russia as well as the utilitarian pragmatism of the German Bauhaus, Kozyrev juxtaposes these modernist tropes with a Vermeer - like Dutch interior or the depiction of a ruined bunker in Finland, exploding the images» contextual logic into a postmodern pastiche of historical culture.

Initially a figurative painter, he discovered abstraction in 2004 on a visit to Notre Dame du Haut, a Modernist chapel in Ronchamp, France, designed by Charles - Edouard Jeanneret - Gris, otherwise known as Le Corbusier.

New York City's Museum of Modern Art, located in Midtown Manhattan and established in 1929, is widely considered as the world's most influential modern and contemporary art museum, crucially important in developing and collecting modernist artworks, including painting, sculpture, photography, prints, books, films, architecture and design.

These include contemporary fields such as science fiction and modernist industrial design (during high school, Jaramillo and a selected group of other students would make weekly visits to the celebrated designer Charles Eames's studio) as well as Celtic and Greek mythologies, pre-Hispanic and non-Western systems of spatial organisation, and classical and sacred geometry.

This collection mainly includes painting and sculpture from the late 19th - century and early 20th - century (featuring movements like Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Ecole de Paris, Dada and Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, Minimalism and Conceptual Art), as well as drawings and poster art, and works representing design movements such as Art Nouveau, the Bauhaus Design School, and the modernist idiom of Artdesign movements such as Art Nouveau, the Bauhaus Design School, and the modernist idiom of ArtDesign School, and the modernist idiom of Art Deco.