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 | | St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, Sunderland | | by Ferdine, Aug 24, 2008 | | As only the second Gothic church to be built in Sunderland, St. Mary’s R.C. Church follows the classical precedent of the Holy Trinity in its rectangular floor plan and overall symmetry. Outwardly, however, the building is a display of spirited medievalism. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 3 |
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 | | Modernist Architecture and the Influence of Henry Ford | | by Ferdine, Aug 24, 2008 | | Modernist architects and designers of the early twentieth century were entranced by the efficiency and symbolic power of machines. The form of the machine was derived entirely from its function, and according to Modernist thought, this made it beautiful. Karl Ewald's text The Beauty of Machines (1925-6) contained the axiom, "A good modern machine is an object of the highest aesthetic value". | | Comments(0) Liked It: 2 |
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 | | The Bauhaus | | by Ferdine, Jun 25, 2008 | | A deep engagement with the realities of the machine age was demonstrated by those who embraced the concept of "functionalism". This idea played a significant role in most forms of Modernist design and theory. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 16 |
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 | | Le Corbusier: Pioneer of the Modern Movement | | by Ferdine, Jun 25, 2008 | | Le Corbusier's manifesto Vers une architecture (1923) is dedicated to promoting the architectural virtues of the machine. His famous declaration, "The house is a machine for living in," often misunderstood, meant that the guiding principle for architects should be to make the house as well suited to its purpose as was a machine. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 13 |
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 | | Italian Futurism: Modernist Art and Design | | by Ferdine, Jun 25, 2008 | | Given the widespread belief that the machine symbolised the new century, it was perhaps inevitable that certain Modernists should embrace it entirely for its own sake - purely as a metaphor, and with no concern for its practical applications. To some extent at least, this tends to be the case for most canonical Modernists, but this approach is exemplified by the Italian Futurist movement. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 13 |
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 | | Cubist Portraiture | | by Ferdine, Jun 17, 2008 | | The use of a conceptual approach can best be illustrated with reference to portraiture. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 11 |
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 | | Cubism and the Representation of Disease | | by Ferdine, Jun 17, 2008 | | Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is set in a Barcelona brothel, and given Picasso's pathological fear of venereal disease, the masked figures can be interpreted as being harbingers of disease. The facial disfigurements evoke the physical effects, while their African origins may play upon contemporary fears of diseases spread by sailors returning from the colonies. Picasso is thus bringing personal concerns into his engagement with the primitive, and is manipulating primitive elements in order to articulate these concerns. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 9 |
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