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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
$1,471
Around the axis - horizontal
Rimantas Milkintas
Sculpture - 125 x 125 x 300 cm Sculpture - 49.2 x 49.2 x 118.1 inch
$11,316
Invasion - Photographie argentique - Paris
Jules Gorce
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$566
Daylesford, Victoria, Australia
John Kendrick Dobson
Photography - 62 x 75 x 3 cm Photography - 24.4 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,339
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
$339
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
$611
Meares and Cook Victoria
James Gordaneer
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 2 inch
$3,900
Espace libre
Pierre Le Preux
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 40 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 15.7 inch
$362
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
$781
Coucher de soleil sur Jérusalem
Samuel Azuelos
Painting - 73 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$9,619
Lichtmalerei 180.18.2003
Karl-Martin Holzhäuser
Photography - 133 x 133 x 5 cm Photography - 52.4 x 52.4 x 2 inch
$36,212
Smoking lady with a red hat - New York 1964
Michel Hosszù
Print - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Print - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$317
L'église de Calvi
Charles Levier
Painting - 118 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 46.5 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$12,448
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
Charito Zarate Torino
Ryan Arbilo
Photography - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$905
Nightwatch Amsterdam
Peter Donkersloot
Print - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Print - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,772
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
$249
Trafalgar Square From Above
Michael Wallner
Sculpture - 63 x 72 x 5 cm Sculpture - 24.8 x 28.3 x 2 inch
$2,927
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
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
$2,328
El templo de santa Barbara
Justo Pastor Acea Gomez
Painting - 67 x 95 cm Painting - 26.4 x 37.4 inch
$1,358
Street Luxembourg
Maite Farreres
Painting - 93.5 x 74.5 x 3 cm Painting - 36.8 x 29.3 x 1.2 inch
$1,867
Vue sur Hérisson
Jürg Kreienbühl
Painting - 125 x 90 x 1 cm Painting - 49.2 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$18,672
Le Pavillon Vendôme (Aix en provence)
Barthélémy Amoros
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 18 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 7.1 inch
$736
Douceur de vivre a Sanary
Pierre-Jean Llado
Painting - 38 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,697
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
$373
Cour intérieure
José Roca-Sastre
Print - 141.5 x 80.8 x 0.5 cm Print - 55.7 x 31.8 x 0.2 inch
$2,236
Castle square of Oldenburg
Thorsten Ritzmann
Photography - 100 x 75 x 4 cm Photography - 39.4 x 29.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,924
Lamp for who walk
Madeleine Colaço
Painting - 128 x 182 x 1 cm Painting - 50.4 x 71.7 x 0.4 inch
$4,527
Altamira buffet
Simone Fanciullacci
Design - 73 x 160 x 54 cm Design - 28.7 x 63 x 21.3 inch
$18,106
Ponte Garibaldi, Rome
Antonio Vangelli
Painting - 35 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$4,300
Piazzale del Pincio
Amedeo Bocchi
Painting - 29 x 55 x 1.4 cm Painting - 11.4 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
$14,145
El Molino Barcelona
Ramón Navarra
Painting - 65 x 55 x 4 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,263
Les Jardins du Trocadéro
Rodykka
Painting - 130 x 162 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 0.8 inch
$10,750
Nonoalco, Reflejos del mundo
Joseba Sánchez Zabaleta
Painting - 140 x 159 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 62.6 x 1.2 inch
$24,896
Blue Room with Fig
Steven Seidenberg
Photography - 41 x 54.5 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.1 x 21.5 x 0 inch
$2,129
Printemps au Poulain - série Paysage marin de Belle-île-en-Mer
Virginie Le Roy
Painting - 27 x 41 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
$424
Rainbow warrior
Alexandre ALLOUL
Photography - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$962
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
$430
Aan de Amsterdamse Grachten III
Rick Triest
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,433
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
Chaise architecturale
Francesco Marino Di Teana
Design - 42 x 44 x 99 cm Design - 16.5 x 17.3 x 39 inch
$6,790
Fountain of Meursault, France
Mark Gingerich
Painting - 18.4 x 35.6 cm Painting - 7.25 x 14 inch
$1,450
The Farmhouse
Jacques Ivane-Millérioux
Painting - 32.7 x 50 x 0.4 cm Painting - 12.9 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$385
Landscape with a Village
Charlotte Jamois
Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$509
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
$634
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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