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![Painting, Port de Cassis, Adrien Holy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/838041_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les Terreaux Du Temple, Percival Pernet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/679908_1_grid.jpg)
Les Terreaux Du Temple
Percival Pernet
Painting - 46 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, La piscine du Vallon des Auffes, Sébastien Arcouet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2128345_1_grid.jpg)
La piscine du Vallon des Auffes
Sébastien Arcouet
Painting - 61 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
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![Painting, Versailles, 12/05/2016, 18h28, Evgeniya Buravleva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1770297_1_grid.jpg)
Versailles, 12/05/2016, 18h28
Evgeniya Buravleva
Painting - 85 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 33.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
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![Painting, Somewhere in the time V, Plamen Kirilov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1069266_1_grid.jpg)
Somewhere in the time V
Plamen Kirilov
Painting - 130 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Secret Garden, Madonna Phillips](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1052436_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pathways, Madonna Phillips](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1052349_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Breakthrough I, Mixed Media Abstract Painting, Madonna Phillips](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1052202_1_grid.jpg)
Breakthrough I, Mixed Media Abstract Painting
Madonna Phillips
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 inch
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![Painting, A Sense of Place Triptych Mixed Media, Abstract Painting, Madonna Phillips](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1052169_1_grid.jpg)
A Sense of Place Triptych Mixed Media, Abstract Painting
Madonna Phillips
Painting - 30.5 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 12 x 36 x 2 inch
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![Painting, Safe Travels, Manuela Karin Knaut](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1001811_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Composition architecturale, rue d'Aix-en-Provence, Danilo Wyss](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/966777_1_grid.jpg)
Composition architecturale, rue d'Aix-en-Provence
Danilo Wyss
Painting - 61 x 41.5 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 16.3 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Pool XIII, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/914280_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La Place du Tertre I, Rodykka](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/908445_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Red Landscape, Gustave Bourgogne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/892347_1_grid.jpg)
Red Landscape
Gustave Bourgogne
Fine Art Drawings - 37 x 54 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.6 x 21.3 x 0.1 inch
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![Painting, Croix De Rozon, Alexandre Blanchet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/776628_1_grid.jpg)
Croix De Rozon
Alexandre Blanchet
Painting - 55 x 37.5 x 1.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 14.8 x 0.6 inch
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![Print, Côte de l'estuaire, Alexei Lantsev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2012817_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le retour au quartier Latin, Pierre Allard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1943001_1_grid.jpg)
Le retour au quartier Latin
Pierre Allard
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
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![Print, Artist´s Hand Mechanatomy (ice), Ardif](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1536246_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Venecia, Allende](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1383681_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Ventana al mar, Alejandra Caballero](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1203150_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Brooklyn Bridge from the New York, New York Portfolio, Robert Indiana](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1137945_1_grid.jpg)
Brooklyn Bridge from the New York, New York Portfolio
Robert Indiana
Print - 77.5 x 58.4 cm Print - 30.5 x 23 inch
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![Painting, Pool XLII, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1121955_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pool XLI, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1121952_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pool XL, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1121949_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La solitude, Raymond Berthelot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2046417_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, White Dog in the Interior, Tinatin Chkhikvishvili](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1927845_1_grid.jpg)
White Dog in the Interior
Tinatin Chkhikvishvili
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
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![Painting, The Moon Flight, Kirill Postovit](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1581132_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ballade nocturne, Jean-Pierre Lorand](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1356654_1_grid.jpg)
Ballade nocturne
Jean-Pierre Lorand
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Sur le pont des Arts, Olga Novokhatska](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1240374_1_grid.jpg)
Sur le pont des Arts
Olga Novokhatska
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Under The Golden Moon Of Prague, Kirill Postovit](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1007700_1_grid.jpg)
Under The Golden Moon Of Prague
Kirill Postovit
Painting - 70 x 90 x 0.6 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.2 inch
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![Print, October, Salvatore Mangione (Salvo)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/765639_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Arche à croiser, Sylvie Groud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/702900_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Maison en Provence, Walter Mafli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/681189_1_grid.jpg)
Maison en Provence
Walter Mafli
Painting - 33.5 x 40.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 13.2 x 15.9 x 0.2 inch
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![Sculpture, Arche à explorer, Sylvie Groud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/675816_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fontaine aux Muses, Carlo Maiolini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/517328_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Checkered, Dyala Khodary](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1981263_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Vienna, Irakli Chikovani](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1980243_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Palm Springs Perspective II, Carrie Graber](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1944819_1_grid.jpg)
Palm Springs Perspective II
Carrie Graber
Painting - 55.9 x 96.5 x 3.8 cm Painting - 22 x 38 x 1.5 inch
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![Painting, Llum de lluna, Àlex Prunés](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1918707_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Carrer, Àlex Prunés](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1918704_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les Voiliers, Martine Fauve Dechavanne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1548834_1_grid.jpg)
Les Voiliers
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Petit marché animé à Naples et vue sur le Vésuve, Oscar Ricciardi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1332747_1_grid.jpg)
Petit marché animé à Naples et vue sur le Vésuve
Oscar Ricciardi
Painting - 35 x 51 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 20.1 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Carrer, Àlex Prunés](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1305519_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Medina, Topolino](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1292400_1_grid.jpg)
Medina
Topolino
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 42 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
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![Painting, Seafront, Àlex Prunés](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1174833_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Construction, Walter Mafli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1071261_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Corcovado, Cleverson de Oliveira](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/903432_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Boteco’s favela, Cleverson de Oliveira](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/903318_1_grid.jpg)
Boteco’s favela
Cleverson de Oliveira
Painting - 95 x 56 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 22 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Paysage n°1, Jacques Jacobi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/690312_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La Maulière, Jacques Deperthes](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/670626_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Street Vitrine 'Maison de la Presse', Benjamin Affagard aka Come](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/656073_1_grid.jpg)
Street Vitrine 'Maison de la Presse'
Benjamin Affagard aka Come
Sculpture - 38 x 37 x 7 cm Sculpture - 15 x 14.6 x 2.8 inch
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![Painting, Kitchen sink / moral support, Andrew Weir](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/621399_1_grid.jpg)
Kitchen sink / moral support
Andrew Weir
Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.01 cm Painting - 18.9 x 14.2 x 0 inch
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![Painting, Les insouciants à Paris, Béatrice Coulibeuf-Espejo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/570168_1_grid.jpg)
Les insouciants à Paris
Béatrice Coulibeuf-Espejo
Painting - 45 x 38 x 3 cm Painting - 17.7 x 15 x 1.2 inch
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![Painting, Les insouciants à Chicago - 2, Béatrice Coulibeuf-Espejo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/569808_1_grid.jpg)
Les insouciants à Chicago - 2
Béatrice Coulibeuf-Espejo
Painting - 45 x 38 x 3 cm Painting - 17.7 x 15 x 1.2 inch
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![Painting, Les insouciants à Venise, Béatrice Coulibeuf-Espejo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/569787_1_grid.jpg)
Les insouciants à Venise
Béatrice Coulibeuf-Espejo
Painting - 60 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
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![Painting, London Pride, Ellie Hesse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156662_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 1970's New York, Ellie Hesse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156660_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Rural yard, Mateos Sargsyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1970874_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, I got you babe, Al Freno](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1632303_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Au coin de la rue, Pierrick Tual](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1548270_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, L'attente, Francis L'Huillier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1544973_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Docks orange, Francis L'Huillier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1544943_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Docks blue, Francis L'Huillier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1544931_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Venus' birth, Evgeniya Buravleva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1185942_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les Rails du Coke, Docteur Bergman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1055334_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le Printanier, Raluca Vulcan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/926949_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Paysage enneigé, Vaclav Vojtech Novak](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/889224_1_grid.jpg)
Paysage enneigé
Vaclav Vojtech Novak
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.3 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
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![Painting, Pont des Bergues et son marché, Genève, Lucien Jaggi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/830067_1_grid.jpg)
Pont des Bergues et son marché, Genève
Lucien Jaggi
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Voiliers à quai en Normandie, Fernand Herbo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/803556_1_grid.jpg)
Voiliers à quai en Normandie
Fernand Herbo
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Etude Parisienne 7ème, Mathieu Dussaucy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/599910_1_grid.jpg)
Etude Parisienne 7ème
Mathieu Dussaucy
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Visiteurs, Edmond Li Bellefroid](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2099421_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, En balayant la cour du couvent, Rodolpho Tamanini Netto](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2098203_1_grid.jpg)
En balayant la cour du couvent
Rodolpho Tamanini Netto
Painting - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
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![Design, Fossil, Lionel Le Coq](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1978767_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Una cruna sull’ago, Moi.](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1741398_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Iron flat #2, Jean-Philippe Berger](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1602621_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Café L'Étincelle, Raluca Vulcan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1347618_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pont Alexandre III Automnal, Raluca Vulcan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1332468_1_grid.jpg)
Pont Alexandre III Automnal
Raluca Vulcan
Painting - 46 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Café de Flore 3, Raluca Vulcan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1119618_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bistrot Marguerite, Raluca Vulcan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1119465_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La cabane dans les marécages, Bault](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1084596_1_grid.jpg)
La cabane dans les marécages
Bault
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Sensations and Adventures, Alec Cumming](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/969405_1_grid.jpg)
Sensations and Adventures
Alec Cumming
Painting - 152 x 152 x 2.5 cm Painting - 59.8 x 59.8 x 1 inch
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![Sculpture, Simplicity 11, Bounoure & Genevaux](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/935868_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Ram Bagh Gateway, Felice Beato](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/896772_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, 53 attempts of greatness, Daniele Sigalot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/515771_1_grid.jpg)
53 attempts of greatness
Daniele Sigalot
Sculpture - 110 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 43.3 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
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![Painting, Toits de Paris, Edmond Li Bellefroid](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2098176_1_grid.jpg)
Toits de Paris
Edmond Li Bellefroid
Painting - 36.5 x 45.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 14.4 x 17.9 x 0.2 inch
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![Painting, My Little House, Bonnie Atlan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1325028_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, N687, Pierre Fillastre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1272447_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Passage Jacques Chirac à Nice, Omar Logang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1192872_1_grid.jpg)
Passage Jacques Chirac à Nice
Omar Logang
Painting - 61 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
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![Painting, Le château de Glérolles et le Léman, Albert Duplain](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/667317_1_grid.jpg)
Le château de Glérolles et le Léman
Albert Duplain
Painting - 55.5 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.9 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Le pont, François-Xavier de Boissoudy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/646407_1_grid.jpg)
Le pont
François-Xavier de Boissoudy
Painting - 100 x 125 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 49.2 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, On melancholy hill, Tekmass](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1942896_1_grid.jpg)
Architecture
Art and architecture share many similarities. They've influenced one another throughout history. However, trying to liken these two disciplines will inevitably lead to certain contractions.
Perhaps the biggest difference is that Art, in its broadest sense, is defined as a creation meant to trigger an emotional response which is generally related to aesthetic pleasure. It doesn't satisfy any of life's basic needs, but it leads to thoughts, reflections, and often taps into our subconscious and our memory. On the other hand, architecture's primary purpose is to shelter individuals and ensure their safety. Architecture is meant to serve a utilitarian purpose.
Today, architecture has gone far beyond this initial function. Architects have strived to combine engineering and aesthetic research to create buildings that are so out of the ordinary we wonder how they were designed. They want their creations to stand out and favour originality and creativity. Just like in arts, architecture is influenced by the historical, social, and political context of the time and each movement has its own characteristics, from baroque to futurism to Bauhaus. Modern architecture marked a turn in the history of architecture. Architects revolutionised the social scope of their discipline and took an industrialist approach to society and nature — avant-garde architects rubbed shoulders with artists such as Georges Braque, Piet Mondrian, and members of the De Stijl group. Le Corbusier is a pioneer in collective housing, and also took part in ambitious projects which aimed to rebuild entire cities, such as Chandigarh in India. Decorative arts also developed by taking inspiration from the conventions that governed modernist architecture.
Contemporary architecture might not be a specific movement per se, but buildings that fall into this category share certain attributes. Contemporary architecture is characterised by curvy lines and various volumes in a single structure, as seen with the Sydney Opera House. The architect Jørn Utzon explained that he didn't seek to create a building for this project, but an actual sculpture. The building continually renews itself with new meanings and experiences for each passerby. Architectural works often require periods of deep reflection and a long though process in order for the architect to envisage how to give their building a sense of character and soul.
Whether architecture is an art or not is a never ending debate, but it is undeniable that there are strong links between the two disciplines. There are many examples of collaborations between contemporary artists and architects, and today the works of the greatest architects are exhibited in museums along with their fellow artists.
Discover our selections of artworks inspired by art and architecture!