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Bénin. Femme et pirogues
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Nightly composition with the house
Karl-Karol Chrobok
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.7 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.3 inch
€1,370
Aesthetic Beauty
Anand Manchiraju
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.1 inch
€5,753
Mur du pont des Soupirs. Venise 2
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Mur du pont des Soupirs. Venise
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Gondole sur le canal du pont des soupirs. Venise 2
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Gondole sur le canal du pont des soupirs. Venise
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
La Basilique sur la piazza San Marco
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Venise la sérénissime
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Vie sur l ile de Burano. Italie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
En noir et blanc sur les canaux vénitiens
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Venise la sérénissime
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Lavage du marché aux poissons. Venise 2
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Lavage du marché aux poissons. Venise
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Glaçage et lavage du marché. Venise
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Reflet architectural. Venise
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Gondolier sur le grand canal de Venise
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Reflet de gondoles sur l'eau vénitienne
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Reflet de Gondole. Venise
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Gondole sur les canaux
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Reflets de couleurs d architecture à Burano
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Etendage sur l ile de Burano. Italie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Couleurs architectural. Burano 1
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Couleurs architectural. Burano
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Carrefour d'architecture. Burano Italie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Etendage. Burano. Ile
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Reflet en eau limpide sur l ile de Burano
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Vie sur l ile de Burano
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Pêcheur sur l ile de Burano. Italie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Passage de canaux. Ile de Burano
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Reflet sur l ile de Burano. Italie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Ile de Burano. Italie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Le Florian piazza San Marco. Venise
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
La piazza San Marco. Venise 2
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
La piazza Sa Marco. Venise
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Dans les rues de Venise
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Gondole sur le grand canal de Venise style baroque
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Village de Saint Florent. Cap Corse
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Village de Nonza rallye touristique. Cap Corse
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Port de Bastia. Corse
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Eglise de Nonza. Cap Corse
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Fête de la Restauration du 31 décembre, Genève
Eugène Louis Martin
Painting - 35 x 27.5 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 10.8 x 0.8 inch
€3,151
Boulangerie la Nuit
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.5 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
€550
Architecture Gris, bleu, rouge
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 45.16 x 70 x 0.4 cm Photography - 17.8 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
€1,000
Composition verticales
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 45 x 60 x 0.4 cm Photography - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
€850
Fenêtres - Composition Minimaliste
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.4 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
€650
Mosque and Rue Emir Akhor
Gabriel Lekegian
Photography - 101.6 x 76.2 cm Photography - 40 x 30 inch
€345
The Taj At Agra
Eugene Clutterbuck Impey
Photography - 50.8 x 76.2 cm Photography - 20 x 30 inch
€220
L'homme au chapeau
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
€1,400
George Peabody Library II, Baltimore USA
Reinhard Gorner
Photography - 158 x 127 x 2 cm Photography - 62.2 x 50 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
Off Target (triptyque)
Judith Berry
Painting - 102 x 356 x 3 cm Painting - 40.2 x 140.2 x 1.2 inch
€10,547
Dernier étage
Guillaume Lachapelle
Sculpture - 34 x 26 x 17 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 10.2 x 6.7 inch
€8,965
Night Shift
Guillaume Lachapelle
Sculpture - 38 x 50 x 50 cm Sculpture - 15 x 19.7 x 19.7 inch
€15,821
Nuit étoilée
Guillaume Lachapelle
Sculpture - 50 x 70 x 70 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 27.6 x 27.6 inch
€15,342
Sans titre
Guillaume Lachapelle
Sculpture - 19 x 51 x 51 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 20.1 x 20.1 inch
€13,712
Tout finit par s’effacer, du moins pâlir
Juliette Lamarca
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
€3,000
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!