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Nightwatch Amsterdam
Peter Donkersloot
Print - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Print - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,785
Les bâches bleues
Célestin Messaggio
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$4,092
Illuminated
Victor Roschkov
Fine Art Drawings - 50.8 x 66.8 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 26.3 x 0.1 inch
$649
Trafalgar Square From Above
Michael Wallner
Sculpture - 63 x 72 x 5 cm Sculpture - 24.8 x 28.3 x 2 inch
$2,937
Malecon 15 años
Luis Miguel Valdes
Painting - 199.9 x 460 x 0.3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 181.1 x 0.1 inch
$26,000
Navona Square (Rome, Italy)
Giuseppe Malandrino
Print - 29.6 x 21 x 0.3 cm Print - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$250
Bridge
Stephen and Lorna Kirin
Fine Art Drawings - 97 x 85 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 38.2 x 33.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,336
L'Ile de la Cité et Notre-Dame de Paris
Michel-Henry
Print - 43 x 58 cm Print - 16.9 x 22.8 inch
$227
Landscape
Emmanuel Charles Jodelet
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 25 x 0.4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 9.8 x 0.2 inch
$375
Street Luxembourg
Maite Farreres
Painting - 93.5 x 74.5 x 3 cm Painting - 36.8 x 29.3 x 1.2 inch
$1,876
Lamp for who walk
Madeleine Colaço
Painting - 128 x 182 x 1 cm Painting - 50.4 x 71.7 x 0.4 inch
$4,547
Altamira buffet
Simone Fanciullacci
Design - 73 x 160 x 54 cm Design - 28.7 x 63 x 21.3 inch
$18,188
Ponte Garibaldi, Rome
Antonio Vangelli
Painting - 35 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$4,320
Coucher de soleil sur Jérusalem
Samuel Azuelos
Painting - 73 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$9,663
Piazzale del Pincio
Amedeo Bocchi
Painting - 29 x 55 x 1.4 cm Painting - 11.4 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
$14,210
Espace libre
Pierre Le Preux
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 40 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 15.7 inch
$364
Castle square of Oldenburg
Thorsten Ritzmann
Photography - 100 x 75 x 4 cm Photography - 39.4 x 29.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,933
El Molino Barcelona
Ramón Navarra
Painting - 65 x 55 x 4 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,274
Aan de Amsterdamse Grachten III
Rick Triest
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,444
View of the Village in the Nature
Robert Fontene
Fine Art Drawings - 12.1 x 16.8 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 4.8 x 6.6 x 0 inch
$432
Grande Place in Brussels
Olga Korneeva
Fine Art Drawings - 55 x 36 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.7 x 14.2 x 0 inch
$784
The painter's house
Mariana MeryMax
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$284
Blue Room with Fig
Steven Seidenberg
Photography - 41 x 54.5 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.1 x 21.5 x 0 inch
$2,136
Interior with a bridge and cat
Francois Ledan
Print - 83.8 x 68.6 x 2.5 cm Print - 33 x 27 x 1 inch
$1,200
Fountain of Meursault, France
Mark Gingerich
Painting - 18.4 x 35.6 cm Painting - 7.25 x 14 inch
$1,450
Charito Zarate Torino
Ryan Arbilo
Photography - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$909
The Farmhouse
Jacques Ivane-Millérioux
Painting - 32.7 x 50 x 0.4 cm Painting - 12.9 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$387
Landscape with a Village
Charlotte Jamois
Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$512
L'église de Calvi
Charles Levier
Painting - 118 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 46.5 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$12,504
Ricardo Bofill. La Fábrica
Ilina Mustafina
Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 30 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$637
Marine phare rochers
Jean-Jacques Gendron
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$8,980
Senza Famiglia (No Family)
Gian Marco Montesano
Painting - 60 x 80 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
$9,663
El templo de santa Barbara
Justo Pastor Acea Gomez
Painting - 67 x 95 cm Painting - 26.4 x 37.4 inch
$1,364
Rome from the Victoriano
Kenny Harris
Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 6.4 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2.5 inch
$2,000
Vue sur Hérisson
Jürg Kreienbühl
Painting - 125 x 90 x 1 cm Painting - 49.2 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$18,757
Landscape
Alfred Sobottka
Fine Art Drawings - 29.4 x 32.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.6 x 12.9 x 0 inch
$557
Douceur de vivre a Sanary
Pierre-Jean Llado
Painting - 38 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,705
BNFalaise - Photographie argentique - Paris
Jules Gorce
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$568
Le Pavillon Vendôme (Aix en provence)
Barthélémy Amoros
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 18 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 7.1 inch
$739
1974 Les toits de Paris Roofs
Kojiro Akagi
Painting - 35 x 38 x 1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 15 x 0.4 inch
$8,526
Groningen 1 - Landscape painting
Jeroen Allart
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,728
Scene With A Baby Jumper
Hiroya Kurata
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 2.54 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 1 inch
$16,000
Everything is Going to be Alright (Work No. 3531)
Martin Creed
Print - 29.8 x 41.9 cm Print - 11.75 x 16.5 inch
$3,500
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.
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