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Avocado House in Volcanic Ash
Christopher Burk
Painting - 20.3 x 20.3 x 5.1 cm Painting - 8 x 8 x 2 inch
$1,440
Habiter demain, Rose #002
Patrick Santoni
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,328
Cité sous Marine
Audrey Rouvin
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$443
Tchernobyl
Guillaume Herbaut
Photography - 60 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$3,264
Ville de Granada
Carlos Marenco
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,319 $2,490
Blue interior with plants
Bea Sarrias
Painting - 81 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 51.2 x 2 inch
$3,762
Distorted Landscape 2
Silvia Popova
Painting - 96 x 117 x 2 cm Painting - 37.8 x 46.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,560
Plateforme Environnementale
Serge Salis
Painting - 29.5 x 39.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.6 x 15.6 x 0.2 inch
$719
Hamburg, Blohm&Voss, Rio Tolten im Schwimmdock
Frank Suplie
Painting - 80 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$8,409
Traverse Fleurie à Mykonos
Jean-Claude Quilici
Print - 73 x 94 x 0.3 cm Print - 28.7 x 37 x 0.1 inch
$420
Miami Stripes 09 11bn
Luca Artioli
Photography - 114.3 x 177.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 45 x 70 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Ode to Textiles
Catalina Escallón Rosselli
Painting - 12.7 x 17.78 x 1 cm Painting - 5 x 7 x 0.4 inch
$1,693
Untitled Desert Tile 2
Guido Segni
Photography - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,549
Landscape with a Moon Jar
Mun-Hyun Cho
Fine Art Drawings - 130.3 x 162 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 51.3 x 63.8 x 0.1 inch
$16,597
Fenêtre sur Soi - série Paysage imaginaire matiériste
Dominique Arzoumanian (Darzou)
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,162
Notre-Dame de Paris
Justina Napiorkowska
Photography - 30 x 30 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$277
Corvée d'eau, Tchétchénie
Françoise Spiekermeier
Photography - 50 x 75 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 inch
$1,660
Every corner is a meeting place
Ivan Peev
Painting - 100 x 73 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,051
Defining Shadows II
Maureen J Haldeman
Photography - 101.6 x 76.2 x 0.6 cm Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.25 inch
$1,400
Chromatic Triangulation II
Herbert Bayer
Print - 79.375 x 79.375 x 2.54 cm Print - 31.3 x 31.3 x 1 inch
$1,250
Petit bar à Kyoto - série voyage en Asie
Brigitte Genty
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$432
Clouds over the Tay Rail Bridge
Alastair Faulkner
Painting - 35 x 45 x 5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 17.7 x 2 inch
$1,881
Divergent paths #7
Christian Culver
Painting - 48.3 x 27.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$1,550
This place has been here before #2
Radina Stoimenova
Fine Art Drawings - 97 x 140 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 38.2 x 55.1 x 0.1 inch
$1,593
Golden Flame
Juan Pablo Castro
Photography - 152.4 x 203.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.1 inch
$6,000
Black Holes
Ernesto Jesus Garcia
Painting - 69.5 x 49.5 x 1 cm Painting - 27.4 x 19.5 x 0.4 inch
$3,983
Admont Abbey, library Hall, Austria
Reinhard Gorner
Photography - 127 x 132 cm Photography - 50 x 52 inch
$6,639
Villa Hadriana - Teatro Marittimo - Tivoli
Thierry Machuron
Painting - 70 x 180 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
$10,517
The invisible map bronze edition
Vincent Lamouroux
Sculpture - 2 x 6 x 11 cm Sculpture - 0.8 x 2.4 x 4.3 inch
$941
Architecture 14
Gonçalo Martins
Photography - 19.5 x 19.5 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.7 x 7.7 x 0 inch
$144
Perpetual Motion
Gagik Ghazanchyan
Painting - 62 x 84 x 0.2 cm Painting - 24.4 x 33.1 x 0.1 inch
$2,102
Rio de la Madoneta, Venice
Pep Ventosa
Photography - 91.4 x 61 x 2.5 cm Photography - 36 x 24 x 1 inch
$1,200
Royal Albert Hall
Marco Araldi
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 100 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,536
No New Friends
Ivan Peev
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
$664
Space Sample 2.5 / Eiffel
Franck Guedj
Photography - 91 x 85 x 1 cm Photography - 35.8 x 33.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,383
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!