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Tornando con le spese, Novembre 1955 - New York
Fabrizio La Torre
Photography - 60 x 42 x 0.5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 16.5 x 0.2 inch
£1,474
Bleu Léman | Vevey Suisse
Gwenaël Bollinger
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
£697
La Bollène-Vésubie
Michel Eisenlohr
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£402
Arche à intérioriser
Sylvie Groud
Sculpture - 30 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
£643
Untitled
Robert Delval
Fine Art Drawings - 50.8 x 40.6 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 16 x 1 inch
£104
Calle de invernaderos II
Ana Garcia
Painting - 35 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
£795
Signore e signori... 1988
Giulio Paolini
Print - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£1,072
Moments before disaster II
Miss Fuck
Painting - 81 x 54 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 21.3 x 1 inch
£581
Tropical Landscape
Jean-Raymond Delpech
Fine Art Drawings - 26.5 x 35.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.4 x 14 x 0 inch
£536
Allégorie de fertilité
Anne-Marie Vesco
Painting - 33 x 26 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 10.2 x 0.8 inch
£1,340
XXI 19 021 36
Pierre Muckensturm
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
£1,072
Festival of Fire
Ofobuike Okudoh
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 49.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.5 inch
£2,680
Fantasy castle on the air
Eugene Gorbachenko
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£893
Eureka Car
Jean-Christophe Béchet
Photography - 90 x 74 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 29.1 x 0 inch
£1,510
Berlin, Potsdamer Platz 2 (3 formats)
Anthony Valon aka Bazabuque
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
£554
Financial District New York
Claude Guillaumin
Photography - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
£1,429
Café Fan Fan
Alexander (Sandro) Antadze
Painting - 40 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
£1,429
Metissage Urbain Aubervilliers
Benoit Tessier
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£893
Trying to reach
Robert Stieghorst
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 26 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 10.2 x 0.8 inch
£1,161
Indian Wind palace Jaipur
Alain Bertrand
Painting - 80 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£2,680
Old Dutch opus II, Photograph, C-Type
Geert Lemmers
Photography - 99.1 x 81.3 x 2.5 cm Photography - 39 x 32 x 1 inch
£976
Chapelle dans le couserans (Ariège)
André Lac
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 48 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 18.9 inch
£581
Bruxelles & le musée de la musique
Jean Pierre De Neef
Photography - 120 x 40 x 0.3 cm Photography - 47.2 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
£1,358
Poignée de Porte - Le Havre
Yves Bélorgey
Fine Art Drawings - 81 x 121 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.9 x 47.6 inch
£6,699
Débarcadère 2
Jean-Guy Nakars
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
£222
La combi
Muriel Bordier
Photography - 100 x 190 x 0.5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 74.8 x 0.2 inch
£4,913
Enigmatic Landscape
Andrée De Frémont
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£4,913
Monochrome 6th avenue
Adrien Faveau
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
£3,216
Wrapped Snoopy House Collage
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Print - 61.2 x 54.9 cm Print - 24.1 x 21.6 inch
£14,202
Paris 1975, ile de la cité
Francisco Hidalgo
Photography - 12 x 16 cm Photography - 4.7 x 6.3 inch
£849
Les oubliées 4 - série Paysage et Architecture
Gilbert Ovtcharenko
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
£603
Together, together.
Myeonghyeon An
Painting - 40.9 x 27.3 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 10.7 x 0.8 inch
£205
Hommage à David Hockney, Piscine & Jacuzzi, 60 éléments, Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA
Pascal Therme
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
£1,295
Ibrid Cracovia
Alessandra Bisi
Photography - 47 x 35 x 1.5 cm Photography - 18.5 x 13.8 x 0.6 inch
£295
An argument in the bathroom
Perrine Anna Chantal
Painting - 160 x 116 x 2.5 cm Painting - 63 x 45.7 x 1 inch
£1,686
Grimaud
Patricia Kluwe Derderian
Painting - 91.44 x 121.92 x 3.81 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1.5 inch
£2,501
Balade dans le Vieux Annecy
Georges Chappuis
Painting - 39 x 47 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.4 x 18.5 x 0.1 inch
£714
Arborescence
Vassilia Kouboulis
Photography - 60 x 40 x 3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
£1,518
Tug of War, Bank of England, London
Slinkachu
Photography - 53 x 80 cm Photography - 20.9 x 31.5 inch
£4,287
Yellow pylon worker
Jean-Jacques Mancardi
Sculpture - 36 x 25.5 x 16 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 10 x 6.3 inch
£2,858
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!