The Female Pioneers of the Bauhaus Art Movement: Discover Gertrud Arndt, Marianne Brandt, Anni Albers & Other Forgotten Innovators. I. M. Pei. Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei, FAIA, RIBA[2] ( yoh-ming-PAY;[3][4] Chinese: 貝聿銘; 26 April 1917 – 16 May 2019) was a Chinese-American architect.
Born in Guangzhou, raised in Hong Kong and Shanghai, Pei drew inspiration at an early age from the garden villas at Suzhou, the traditional retreat of the scholar-gentry to which his family belonged. In 1935, he moved to the United States and enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania's architecture school, but he quickly transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was unhappy with the focus at both schools on Beaux-Arts architecture, and spent his free time researching emerging architects, especially Le Corbusier. After graduating, he joined the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and became a friend of the Bauhaus architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. Contents Childhood[edit] Pei's ancestry traces back to the Ming dynasty, when his family moved from Anhui province to Suzhou.
Career[edit] The John F. Milton Glaser. American graphic designer Life and career[edit] Glaser was born on June 26, 1929, in The Bronx, New York City.
His parents, Eugene and Eleanor (née Bergman), were Hungarian Jewish immigrants.[5] The family resided in the South Bronx.[1] His father owned a dry-cleaning and tailoring shop; his mother was a homemaker. Glaser took drawing classes with artists Raphael and Moses Soyer, before attending the High School of Music & Art in Manhattan.[6] After graduating from the Cooper Union in New York City, Reynold Ruffins, Seymour Chwast, Edward Sorel and Glaser founded Push Pin Studios in 1954.[7] Glaser joined after his return from Italy.[7][6] In 1957, the "Push Pin Monthly Graphic" was sent out to friends and clients.[7] The studio's work rejected tradition and favored "reinvigorated interpretations of historical styles In 1988 Glaser designed the New York City Shelly Fireman owned Italianate eatery Trattoria Dell'Arte across from Carnegie Hall.[9] Works[edit] Bob Dylan poster[edit]
The Case for “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again” Not all the criticism has been supercharged.
Many of the craftier critics assume a kind of eye-rolling world weariness: The debate between traditional and contemporary architecture is so … so … 1980s. I mean, Gawd. The NCAS and its supporters are living in the past, all right—not the Renaissance, but the Reagan era, when the neoclassical backlash against modernism seemed fresh. “Just to have this argument feels demeaning,” wrote the architecture critic for The New York Times. The order raises "issues most people simply don't argue about anymore," wrote The Washington Post's architecture critic.
How Did Edward Hopper Manage to Turn a Plain Country Road Into a Psychologically Charged Drama? A New Exhibition Decodes His Tricks. For Edward Hopper, a rugged coastline or rural highway could be as psychologically charged as a café at night or a deserted city street.
But the American artist’s landscapes tend to get overshadowed by his more famous paintings evoking urban isolation. That is set to change with an exhibition opening this week at the Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland that focuses on the American artist’s paintings of rural scenes. Bob Wade, Sculptor of the Outlandishly Large, Dies at 76. “It was the size of a small apartment, kind of a nice spot, and he was cooking lunch with cans of Sterno, and smoke was emerging from the top of the boots,” Mr.
Wade said in “Too High, Too Wide and Too Long.” Brian Reffin Smith. Da Vinci's Ghost: How The Vitruvian Man Came To Be. By Maria Popova Fifteen centuries of combinatorial creativity, or what Leonardo’s to-do list has to do with ancient Rome.
The surreal true story of Cynthia the movie star mannequin. Lester Gaba: From Soap to Mannequins. Lester Gaba: From Soap to Mannequins Written by Janet Mabie on November 27, 1935 Excerpt from Beautiful, but Dummies, an article written by Janet Mabie for Weekly Magazine Section, November 27, 1935 issue Photo below: Lester Gaba mannequin photographed by Frederick Bradley from Weekly Magazine Section Nov. 27, 1935.
Lester Gaba. Lester Gaba (1907 – 12 August 1987) was an American sculptor, writer and retail display designer.
Early life[edit] Cy Twombly. American painter Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (; April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011)[1] was an American painter, sculptor and photographer.
He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Twombly's paintings are predominantly large-scale, freely-scribbled, calligraphic and graffiti-like works on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. His later paintings and works on paper shifted toward "romantic symbolism", and their titles can be interpreted visually through shapes and forms and words. How Andrew Wyeth Made A Painting. How Art Arrived At Jackson Pollock. The Waltz (Claudel) The Waltz, a 1905 cast of the second version The Waltz (French: La valse) or The Waltzers (French: Les valseurs) is a sculpture by French artist Camille Claudel.
It depicts two figures, a man and a woman, locked in an amorous embrace as they dance a waltz. The work was inspired by Claudel's burgeoning love affair with her mentor and employer Auguste Rodin. Various versions were made from 1889 to 1905, initially modelled in plaster, and later cast in bronze. Examples are held by the Musée Rodin and the Musée Camille Claudel. Claudel was studying with Alfred Boucher in Paris when she was first introduced to Rodin in 1883, when she was aged 19. Claudel and Rodin continued to work together until 1898, but their relationship deteriorated irretrievably after Rodin saw her transparently autobiographical sculpture The Mature Age, which depicts a young woman pleading with her older lover to leave his female companion.
Camille Claudel. Camille Claudel (French pronunciation: [kamij klɔdɛl] ( The national Camille Claudel Museum in Nogent-sur-Seine opened in 2017, and the Musée Rodin in Paris has a room dedicated to her works. Early years[edit] Art and Artists of the 20th Century : Documentary on 20th Century Artists (Full Documentary) DuSable Museum of African American History. Thomas Schütte: Bronze Woman No. 17. The Art Institute of Chicago. Which Museum Should Everyone Visit.