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Three girls on the grass road
Arie Smit
Painting - 28 x 30.5 x 3 cm Painting - 11 x 12 x 1.2 inch
CHF 6,622
Turning Prayer Wheels
Katherine Van Uytrecht
Print - 24 x 20 x 1 cm Print - 9.4 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
CHF 196
The Meeting -15-02-22
Corné Akkers
Painting - 59.9 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
CHF 5,945
Peaceful Village
Shellie Garber
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
CHF 1,987
La mémoire
Thierry Van Quickenborne
Photography - 81 x 65 x 1 cm Photography - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
CHF 480
The splendor of benares
Samir Paul
Painting - 91.5 x 106.7 x 0.1 cm Painting - 36 x 42 x 0 inch
CHF 7,695
La Rochelle
Patrice Larue
Painting - 99.5 x 99.7 x 3.6 cm Painting - 39.2 x 39.3 x 1.4 inch
CHF 5,103
Plymouth Gin Distillery, the Barbican Plymouth
James Presley
Painting - 23.1 x 31 x 0.3 cm Painting - 9.1 x 12.2 x 0.1 inch
CHF 272
Le Grand Duc à L’Opéra
Dan Jacobson
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 2,551
Belvedere on the sea - Ravello Italy painting
Ernesto De Michele
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
CHF 372
Capri romantic sunset - Southern Italy
Silvio Valli
Painting - 30 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
CHF 270
Blue Thermal Baths
Ilan Benattar
Photography - 120 x 180 x 0.5 cm Photography - 47.2 x 70.9 x 0.2 inch
CHF 6,123
Cuckoo Block "Frankfurt"
Guido Zimmermann
Sculpture - 78 x 26 x 14 cm Sculpture - 30.7 x 10.2 x 5.5 inch
CHF 5,001
Flowering panorama - Amalfitan coast painting
Domenico Caiazza
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
CHF 459
Old Venice cityscape n°1 - Italian painting
Michele Martini
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
CHF 383
St Mark's Square, Venice
Sergio Mari
Print - 50 x 70 x 0.2 cm Print - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
CHF 347 CHF 312
Sagalassos Funtain
Vincenzo Bizzarri
Fine Art Drawings - 14.8 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.8 x 8.3 x 0 inch
CHF 204
Même structure
Jaildo Marihno
Sculpture - 32 x 44 x 41 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 17.3 x 16.1 inch
CHF 12,246
Interior de la Iglesia de Espejo (Cordoba) en septiembre de 1937
Equipo Realidad
Print - 69 x 71 cm Print - 27.2 x 28 inch
CHF 306
Le retour du fils prodigue
Winnie Denker
Photography - 160 x 120 x 5 cm Photography - 63 x 47.2 x 2 inch
CHF 8,164
The treshold
Officine Creative Italiane
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
CHF 505
Corner of the inn
Tamalin Baumgarten
Painting - 45.72 x 45.72 x 5.08 cm Painting - 18 x 18 x 2 inch
CHF 3,661
The Building of Isolation I
Hesu Park
Fine Art Drawings - 38.6 x 25.8 x 2.6 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.2 x 10.2 x 1 inch
CHF 265
Serene Christmas
Victorino Mercado
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 56 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 22 inch
CHF 357
Urban wallpaper 10
Bruno Fontana
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
CHF 2,449
Gran Vía, 1 de Agosto
Antonio Lopez Garcia
Print - 77.5 x 70.6 x 0 cm Print - 30.5 x 27.8 x 0.01 inch
CHF 8,278
Living room with yellow walls
Michael Callas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
CHF 21,759
Untitled
Robert Delval
Fine Art Drawings - 50.8 x 40.6 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 16 x 1 inch
CHF 118
Pont des Saints Pères
Pierre Emile Le Prince Ringuet
Painting - 34 x 38 cm Painting - 13.4 x 15 inch
CHF 398
Dans les rues de Biot
Raph Eye's
Photography - 30 x 20 x 4 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
CHF 143
En Carafe
Cédric Fontaine
Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.5 cm Photography - 9.4 x 14.2 x 0.2 inch
CHF 378
Suzhou aux pastels - Chine
Thierry Machuron
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
CHF 612
D2
Jean-Paul Veison Marcelli
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
CHF 153
Habiter demain, Rose #002
Patrick Santoni
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,225
Township home #01
José Luis Lopez Lara
Sculpture - 24.2 x 16 x 25.7 cm Sculpture - 9.5 x 6.3 x 10.1 inch
CHF 408
Les colonnes n°1
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
CHF 1,225
FotoZeit Salzau
Boris Mikhailov
Photography - 30 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
CHF 3,062
Some Letters Rejected to the Sender
Gianfranco Baruchello
Painting - 36.5 x 51 x 0.2 cm Painting - 14.4 x 20.1 x 0.1 inch
CHF 9,695 CHF 7,756
Figure Collection : Dark version
Leni Smoragdova
Photography - 74.9 x 110 x 1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
CHF 2,194
Les Remparts
Raoul Dufy
Painting - 50 x 65 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
Price upon request
Aquanaut London 3D Watches
Johann Perathoner
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
Price upon request
In Venice
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 60 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,135
Night lights of Prague
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 70 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,419 CHF 1,206
You are my Paradise
Lilly Muth
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,633
The red Carpet Treatment
Lilly Muth
Painting - 85 x 105 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 41.3 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,531
Whimsical Wilderness
Lilly Muth
Painting - 85 x 105 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 41.3 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,531
Mountain Sunsets calling
Lilly Muth
Painting - 100 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,735
Fox Terrier
Tinatin Chkhikvishvili
Painting - 33 x 41 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,021
Evening in Venice
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 90 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
CHF 2,554 CHF 2,043
Le Pardon De Sigismund (La Vida Es Sueno)
Salvador Dali
Print - 57.5 x 79 x 0.1 cm Print - 22.6 x 31.1 x 0 inch
CHF 918
Let's meet at the Pool
Lilly Muth
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
CHF 714
It's Summer Somewhere
Lilly Muth
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
CHF 714
Gdansk melody
Tetiana Ocheredko
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,135 CHF 965
Critical Infrastructure Facility
Halyna Abramova
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,021
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!