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Saturday, September 6, 2008
Post 5:
This work was done in Bocchignano, Italy, a village close to Rome, as part of the group project "20 Eventi". The group of artists developed projects for 4 villages of the Sabina region and decided to create a compilation of drawings, for collectors to purchase, and to support this project.
See more of Jan Vormann's Dispatchwork here.
The artists filled the gap between the dull and earthy bricked and rocks with colourful Lego bricks. Besides the contrast of colours, there are also contrasts of natural material and plastic, regular and irregular shapes, modern and old objects.
Post 4
Is architecture art?
I always think that architectures are like giant sculptures that we can walk in and out, and architects are space crafters who create architecture which materializes in expressive forms ,that respond to human necessities ,which we call functions .the functions are never just utilitarian , they always have purposes too : symbolic ,cultural ,artistic .these expressive forms have meanings to humans , they do have a symbolic and aesthetic finality , they provoke a certain impression to humans and are conceived in such a way .
Some sculptural works by Rachel Whiteread and Anish Kapoor do overlap with architecture in the way that they relate to people through a space, especially those works displayed in the Turbine Hall in Tate Modern, London.
Gaudi is a prime example of architecture as art, where his forms are so organic they are more artistic fantasy than architecture. Gaudí, throughout his life, studied nature's angles and curves and incorporated them into his designs. Instead of relying on geometric shapes, he mimicked the way men stand upright. The hyperboloids and paraboloids he borrowed from nature were easily reinforced by steel rods and allowed his designs to resemble elements from the environment.Having said that, the Sagrada Familia church constucted by Gaudi is also an awesome piece of structural engineering, proving that architecture can fulfil the criteria of both an art and a science.
Many great architects were also artists, Le Corbusier being a strong example. Le Corbusier's post-war buildings rejected his earlier industrial forms and utilized vernacular materials, brute concrete and articulated structure. Near the end of his career he worked on several projects in India, which utilized brutal materials and sculptural forms. In these buildings he readopted the recessed structural column, the expressive staircase, and the flat undecorated plane of his celebrated five points of architecture.
However, utilitarian architecture - where it is simply built for the purpose its required for there has been no emotion put into this just so long as the building regs are checked, the planning permission is granted and the costs stack up. I still think this is not art to me .
I always think that architectures are like giant sculptures that we can walk in and out, and architects are space crafters who create architecture which materializes in expressive forms ,that respond to human necessities ,which we call functions .the functions are never just utilitarian , they always have purposes too : symbolic ,cultural ,artistic .these expressive forms have meanings to humans , they do have a symbolic and aesthetic finality , they provoke a certain impression to humans and are conceived in such a way .
Some sculptural works by Rachel Whiteread and Anish Kapoor do overlap with architecture in the way that they relate to people through a space, especially those works displayed in the Turbine Hall in Tate Modern, London.
Gaudi is a prime example of architecture as art, where his forms are so organic they are more artistic fantasy than architecture. Gaudí, throughout his life, studied nature's angles and curves and incorporated them into his designs. Instead of relying on geometric shapes, he mimicked the way men stand upright. The hyperboloids and paraboloids he borrowed from nature were easily reinforced by steel rods and allowed his designs to resemble elements from the environment.Having said that, the Sagrada Familia church constucted by Gaudi is also an awesome piece of structural engineering, proving that architecture can fulfil the criteria of both an art and a science.
Many great architects were also artists, Le Corbusier being a strong example. Le Corbusier's post-war buildings rejected his earlier industrial forms and utilized vernacular materials, brute concrete and articulated structure. Near the end of his career he worked on several projects in India, which utilized brutal materials and sculptural forms. In these buildings he readopted the recessed structural column, the expressive staircase, and the flat undecorated plane of his celebrated five points of architecture.
However, utilitarian architecture - where it is simply built for the purpose its required for there has been no emotion put into this just so long as the building regs are checked, the planning permission is granted and the costs stack up. I still think this is not art to me .
Post 3:
I picked up a copy of Style: magazine from my roomate's table and read it yesterday. It was another ordinary fashion magazine but what surprised me is the photoshots in the magazine! The theme is Cubism, and everything is about geometry and clean lines.
Everything that are worn on the models is exaggerated, for example, their sholders are broadened, hips are sculpted and shoes are elaborate. The clothings look stiff, as if they are sculptures worn on women. The sharp angles and geometry shapes are the most significant features for Cubism, and besides that, the features also bring in a sense of Futurism to the overall look. The design is minimal and emphasises on the overall shape and the texture of the textiles.The heavy and volumized upper parts are always balanced with a tight bottom, or vice versa to avoid overloaded visualization. The colour used are mainly cold colours, such as black, white, silver, blue and violet. The models are either emotionless or looking away. This enables them to make us feel as if they are robot like or inhuman, or someone who travelled time and come form the future. Or perhaps, the artist want to tell the audience that women now are strong, powerful and sophiscated and are moving in with time to advance their influence in the society. And also that, women can be womanly, and yet do not exploit their feminity by baring her skin and be seen purely as a beauty object by men in the patriarchal society, like they did in the past.
Post 2
“Everyone has a sweater or a scarf knit by a grandmother or an aunt,” says Magda Sayeg. “There’s something about the amount of work that goes into a piece that shows care. Knitting is an act of love.”
She has a group of ten knitters, kniting to sweaters—not for people but for things you found on the streets like stop signs,expired parking meters, bicycle racks and telephone poles. This action is started in October 2005 with a very localized act and has exploded into an international guerilla public-art campaign.
I think this art campaign is cute and a great idea to publicize the idea of showing care and love, not only to the people you know, but to the things around you (which you might probably neglect) as well. When the artist is asked for the reason to start kniting for objects, “Houston (the place where she lives) is a lot of steel and cement—not so pretty,” Sayeg explains. Now, not only Houston, even a stone at the Great Wall of China is found wearing a knitted jacket.
Not only this is a creative way to publize "Love", it also consists of public involvement in this art campaign.
You can now start picking up a pair of needles and a ball of wool, and start knitting for the metal pole in the mrt train to be part of this public art campaign! (Dont blame me if you got caught or something, i am not too sure if this is illegal though.)
She has a group of ten knitters, kniting to sweaters—not for people but for things you found on the streets like stop signs,expired parking meters, bicycle racks and telephone poles. This action is started in October 2005 with a very localized act and has exploded into an international guerilla public-art campaign.
I think this art campaign is cute and a great idea to publicize the idea of showing care and love, not only to the people you know, but to the things around you (which you might probably neglect) as well. When the artist is asked for the reason to start kniting for objects, “Houston (the place where she lives) is a lot of steel and cement—not so pretty,” Sayeg explains. Now, not only Houston, even a stone at the Great Wall of China is found wearing a knitted jacket.
Not only this is a creative way to publize "Love", it also consists of public involvement in this art campaign.
You can now start picking up a pair of needles and a ball of wool, and start knitting for the metal pole in the mrt train to be part of this public art campaign! (Dont blame me if you got caught or something, i am not too sure if this is illegal though.)