I decided to add this picture because it reminded me of a modern Dutch artist named M.C. Escher. Granted Escher created paintings, some of the basic principles of his paintings are exhibited in this piece. Escher is famous for manipulating perceptual ambiguity. I do not know much about architecture, but it seems that with the slants and angles of the floors and legs that it would not be stables. In Escher's work, he would create paintings where the post from one side of a building acts as a leg for another. I know these two are quite different, but if you think about it, it holds some of the ideas that Escher demonstrates in his art. This type of architecture is called Deconstruction. Deconstructivism in architecture involves manipulating structural ideas of a building. Deconstruction is most common in Europe, so this piece of artwork brings a little bit of the European culture to Clemson while it is on display in Lee Gallery.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Lee Gallery Visit
Today I decided to visit Lee Gallery where I found several architecture projects. There was one that struck me as interesting because I had just read about an artist who created paintings of impossible structures.
I decided to add this picture because it reminded me of a modern Dutch artist named M.C. Escher. Granted Escher created paintings, some of the basic principles of his paintings are exhibited in this piece. Escher is famous for manipulating perceptual ambiguity. I do not know much about architecture, but it seems that with the slants and angles of the floors and legs that it would not be stables. In Escher's work, he would create paintings where the post from one side of a building acts as a leg for another. I know these two are quite different, but if you think about it, it holds some of the ideas that Escher demonstrates in his art. This type of architecture is called Deconstruction. Deconstructivism in architecture involves manipulating structural ideas of a building. Deconstruction is most common in Europe, so this piece of artwork brings a little bit of the European culture to Clemson while it is on display in Lee Gallery.
I decided to add this picture because it reminded me of a modern Dutch artist named M.C. Escher. Granted Escher created paintings, some of the basic principles of his paintings are exhibited in this piece. Escher is famous for manipulating perceptual ambiguity. I do not know much about architecture, but it seems that with the slants and angles of the floors and legs that it would not be stables. In Escher's work, he would create paintings where the post from one side of a building acts as a leg for another. I know these two are quite different, but if you think about it, it holds some of the ideas that Escher demonstrates in his art. This type of architecture is called Deconstruction. Deconstructivism in architecture involves manipulating structural ideas of a building. Deconstruction is most common in Europe, so this piece of artwork brings a little bit of the European culture to Clemson while it is on display in Lee Gallery.
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