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Maisons Saint-Gué 008
Marion Zylberman
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 45 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 17.7 inch
$1,611
Architecture
Bernadette Broussal
Painting - 73 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,063
L'art du futur
Alain Husson-Dumoutier
Painting - 98 x 72 x 1 cm Painting - 38.6 x 28.3 x 0.4 inch
$10,033
Entre ligne et lumière, la sérigraphie
Moi.
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$268
Notre Dame des couleurs
Alexandre Petrus
Painting - 92 x 65 x 1.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 25.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,790
Église Saint-Étienne-Du-Mont, Paris
Aurèle Barraud
Painting - 61 x 47 x 0.3 cm Painting - 24 x 18.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,266
Circular Staircase Puerto Rico
Three Lions
Photography - 101.6 x 101.6 cm Photography - 40 x 40 inch
$1,230
Eglise San Giovanni degli Eremiti
Antonio Ferrigno
Painting - 39.5 x 19.5 x 2 cm Painting - 15.6 x 7.7 x 0.8 inch
$984
Structure Urbaine 33
Piers Henriot
Fine Art Drawings - 37.5 x 56 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.8 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$671
Vassilis with farm equipment
Jen Sloan
Photography - 35 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,007
Around the axis - horizontal
Rimantas Milkintas
Sculpture - 125 x 125 x 300 cm Sculpture - 49.2 x 49.2 x 118.1 inch
$11,185
Tropical Space Hostal
Simon Vega
Photography - 51 x 76 x 4 cm Photography - 20.1 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
$2,125
Coffee Table Pera S smoky oak Calacatta Viola
Un'common
Design - 44 x 40 x 40 cm Design - 17.3 x 15.7 x 15.7 inch
$1,454
Promenade à Bergheim, la Route des Vins
Georges Hosotte
Fine Art Drawings - 48 x 62 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.9 x 24.4 inch
$727
View
Nicolas Damianakis
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 31.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 12.4 x 0 inch
$336
Intimate Talk (1)
Vladimir Khasiev
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 33 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 13 x 0.1 inch
$604
Meares and Cook Victoria
James Gordaneer
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 2 inch
$3,900
Blue #3
Thibaut De Rohan-Chabot
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$895
Bateau à marée basse 2
Gérard Desgranges
Painting - 54 x 73 x 4 cm Painting - 21.3 x 28.7 x 1.6 inch
$671
Au bord du lagon à Moorea
Henri Dufaux
Painting - 35 x 47 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 18.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,098
Place de Naples animée
Oscar Ricciardi
Painting - 38 x 22.7 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15 x 8.9 x 0.2 inch
$938
A la tombée du jour
Renée De Gagné
Painting - 152 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 59.8 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,132
Fête de village avec ramasseur de broussailles
Alexandre Marcette
Painting - 74 x 39.5 x 2 cm Painting - 29.1 x 15.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,993
Basilique Santa Maria della Salute, Grand Canal, Venise
Giuseppe Milto
Painting - 26.5 x 41 x 0.5 cm Painting - 10.4 x 16.1 x 0.2 inch
$2,087
Paysage des Alpes Suisse
Edoardo De Grada
Painting - 30 x 35.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 14 x 0.2 inch
$1,407
Gondoles sur le grand canal à Venise
Andrea Biondetti
Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 24.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 9.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,055
Paysage de campagne avec arbre fruitier en fleurs
Furlani
Painting - 34 x 40 x 0.5 cm Painting - 13.4 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,055
Le Brassus, Vallée De Joux
Lucien Schwob
Painting - 65.5 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 25.8 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,700
Place de l'hôtel de ville à Paris
Henri Noizeux
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 32 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 12.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,055
Etude de bateau
Marcel Noverraz
Painting - 35 x 27 x 0.5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 10.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,055
Deux amants dans un jardin au dessus de Paris
Lionello Balestrieri
Print - 49 x 65 x 0.3 cm Print - 19.3 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,055
La Tuilerie
Alfred-Louis Brugère
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 34 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 13.4 x 0.1 inch
$938
Arbre en floraison au pied des Alpes autrichiennes
U. Maly
Fine Art Drawings - 36.5 x 26 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.4 x 10.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,055
Barques de pêcheur dans le port
P. Loutan
Painting - 27 x 35 x 0.5 cm Painting - 10.6 x 13.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,465
Paysage italien avec pont
Trevisan
Painting - 42 x 54 x 1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 21.3 x 0.4 inch
$2,087
Pont de Zurich avec vue sur la rivière Limmat
Hans Albert Falk
Painting - 23 x 36 x 0.3 cm Painting - 9.1 x 14.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,055
Paysage de montagne avec chalets
E. Mariola
Painting - 60 x 75 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,583
Paysage de bord de mer, barque de pêcheur et voiliers
Maria Fortis
Painting - 49 x 68 x 2 cm Painting - 19.3 x 26.8 x 0.8 inch
$2,110
Balade des cygnes
Olga Steiner
Painting - 83.5 x 113.5 x 2 cm Painting - 32.9 x 44.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,407
Vue d'une ville du Moyen-Orient
Edouard Jacques Dufeu
Painting - 33.5 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 13.2 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,758
Nightwatch Amsterdam
Peter Donkersloot
Print - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Print - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,740
Landscape with a Village
Charlotte Jamois
Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$503
Trafalgar Square From Above
Michael Wallner
Sculpture - 63 x 72 x 5 cm Sculpture - 24.8 x 28.3 x 2 inch
$2,913
Les bâches bleues
Célestin Messaggio
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$4,026
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
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
$246
Les voisins d’en face
Tim Blandin
Painting - 81 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,355
Douceur de vivre a Sanary
Pierre-Jean Llado
Painting - 38 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,678
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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