The chamber has shown the affinity and communication of nature and human through its decorative ceiling. There are 34 thematic paintings on panels in the chamber in total, the thematic oval panels on the 4 sides of the room showing religious or mythological scenes, or representing scenes of production process and trade. The object collection itself was stored in 20 cabinets. The arrangement of this hidden vault room is quite unique, instead of showing the collections in a large cabinet, Francesco divided four areas to organize vista of thematic canvases. Earth, water, air and fire are the four governing elements of each side of the space (Figure 1) These wall paintings showed the ultimate personal artistic preference of Francesco. Under each wall, there is a serial of exquisite oil paintings related to the theme. There are 19 of them distributed along the four thematic walls, covering by different oval –framed paintings that indicated the contents in the cupboard. “The paintings of the Studiolo concealed cabinets containing the dilettante prince's collections of precious gems and artifact.”…
Again, it is a collection of objects created from fine glass beads. The objects are elements of plant and human material including the contrast of flowers and bones. Again, the artwork is a form of installation, through a museology display cabinet and eccentric lighting positioned above the cabinet to create a shadowing of the objects on the floor.…
Rietveld came to the De Stijl group as a cabinet maker and created spectacular furniture throughout his life. He used this as an inspiration for the plans and designs of his architecture. He expresses his spirits and definition into the whole piece. This structure is an anti-cube and does not contain much functional space, nor did it intend to. It instead throws all of this space out of the center therefore making the height, width, and depth an open space. The main areas such as the living room are on the second floor where as the private rooms are confined to the bottom. The second floor also uses sliding objects in order to be able to have definite shape or be open when needed. The movable panels illustrate three-dimensional ideas but have proportional planes. This contemporary style portrays nature through its open plan.…
It seems perverse to characterize the sculptures at the 24th Street gallery as more subtle, though the straight-edged, black steel pieces are certainly sobering. If Inside Out takes on the character of a funhouse, 7 Plates, 6 Angles is more in tune with the brutalist vocabulary of Serra's work of the 1970s and 1980s. Huge steel walls several feet wide zigzag through an expansive gallery, dividing it into triangular spaces where the plates meet at acute angles. An adjacent room is filled with 24 steel plates of varying heights, though all are roughly as tall as a person. The title of the work,…
The house is divided into two wings, keeping the public areas toward the street and the service areas near the innermost sections of the house. The floor composition is based on two adjacent horizontal bars that are mixed in a central space which are anchored by the vertical column of the fireplace. The space is divided into two areas, the living and dining areas separated by fireplace, but wisely connected. On both ends of this space the two long galleries form triangular areas that are more intimate for relaxing and dinning. And the bedroom is at the second level.…
Located at the entrance of the third floor that was designated as Europe, I chose a three dimensional sculpture that is called the Archangel Saint Michael Vanquishing Satan by Henry High Armstead. This sculpture was started and finished in the year 1852. There was no art work next to the piece I chose but on the other side of the wall that it was on there was a painting called The Virgin and Child with Saints in a Landscape by Alessandro Tiarini. The Virgin and Child with Saints in a Landscape is an oil painting done on a canvas in 1640. This sculpture is a cast statue based on one of the saints. It was created to show the strength of Saints and how they were loyal, and angelic hosts of heaven out of a bronze material that was shaped and carved. The art work was purchased by the…
When I first observed the sculpture, I realized it was an installation. This three-dimensional work of art took up space in an art gallery and was designed to transform the perception of a space. The lines of the sculpture can be described as organized because the “X” is two straight…
As the Museum 's new curator, I have been informed that one of my main priorities is to improve the content of our museum 's website. I have decided to go with something a little more out there than traditional art, and that is why I have chosen to highlight Art Installation 's on our new site. Art installations are a large exhibit of any type of material that alters the way space is experienced. An art installation means taking a large interior and loading it with items that evoke complex and multiple associations and thoughts. ("Art Installation", 2003). I am going to showcase ten examples of installations created by married…
The most impressive part of the design is in its dome, where the complex corners and curves of the plan are pulled upwards like a tent. Standing at the center of the church and looking upwards, it’s beautiful shape is revealed, and the pronounced entablature makes the visitor want to flow around the space, following its shape. The dome is filled with natural light, which elevates the space into a spiritual…
Two very different buildings in their typology, The Roy Grounds House (1953) and The National Gallery of Victoria (1968), with one a small residential building and the other a large internationally recognised institution, clearly show how he is constantly practicing values of symmetry and simple geometries(fig#) and some of the specific elements that are continually reproduced and perfected, large eves with and rising undersides (fig#), panoramic highlight windows (fig#) and centre courtyards (fig#).…
Richard Serra is known has an American sculptor who has made abstract steel sculptures in the meaning of the nature of the art production process or his “Verb List”. Serra has used steel for the work that he does, for example, the Tilted Arc, a curving wall that measures 120 ft. Long and 12 ft. High in 1981-1989. He used CorTen Steel to create the curving wall in the middle of Federal Plaza, in a downtown New York City business district and wanted “passers-by to experience the sculpture in a physical way instead of focusing on the optical experience of sculpture”. Serra focuses on his strategies to not create any conception of imagery or a metaphor and emphasize or alter viewers' perceptions of space and proportion.…
While evaluating the paint I could see the figure of a human body. As a matter of fact, I am not only able to see the figure of a person when I stare at the paint, but I am also able to appreciate what I consider a staircase. The staircase is located in the lowest section of the paint. In my opinion, that could means something related to the power of humanity. In other words, how the humans can scale from the bottom to the top of a staircase or vice versa. Metaphorically, how people can ascend or descent a staircase could be related to be on a good situation (the top) or a bad situation (the bottom). Another idea that comes into my mind, it is that the body looks like a robot. This could refer to what the painter imagined about the future.…
Public opinion of architecture, among countless other industries, was that it had begun taking on a lifeless, utilitarian aesthetic. This machine-driven architecture lacked creativity. Yes, you can produce more, but is it at the expense of quality and design? The right-brain of society was feeling a lack of individuality. Sure, they could perceive the brains behind what was going on, but where was the heart of it all? Consequently the Arts and Crafts movement was born as a rebellion to the negative impact of industry.2 The red house, designed by Philip Morris Webb, is a quintessential representation of everything Arts and Craft stood for. Each aspect of the structure has various minute, unique details in order to emphasize the true craft. Every window is slightly different and a touch of gothic influence is apparent in the wall arches above the windows, as to suggest a memory of a more ornamented time. This movement was about bringing the theory and expression back into architectural design of space. Antonio Gaudi, a forerunner of the Arts and Craft era was equally inspired by the theories of Ruskin as he was by the music-dramas of…
of two renowned architectural designs, the Eames House and the Vanna Ventri House that each represents…
Mies purpose adjusted the view frames by lowering the stature of the building, which limits the visitor’s line of vision. The visitor is forced under the low roof plane as they walked up onto the plinth, which will capture the adjacent outdoor court as well as the interior moments that induce circulation throughout the pavilion. A set of walls were placed that will work with the low roof plane to encourage movement, as well as activate Mies’s architectural promenade where framed views would induce movement through the narrow passage that would open into larger volume. This cyclical process of moving throughout the pavilion sets in motion a process of discovery and rediscovery of user experience, always offering up new perspectives and details that were previously…