Two Exhibitions:Imagine as You View these Women;Imagine Architecture Classic, Gothic, and Modern, all Universal
By WendaJill
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Period: 200 to
Rooms of Art and Architecture
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300
Statuete of Veiled and Masked Dancer
A figure masked and draped, a mystery: this third century Hellenistic statuete could be of a performer on today's stage moving in a flawlless,fluid fashion. The artist's imagination has produced a significant form that transcends time. -
Jan 1, 1470
Palais de Justice in Rouen, France
Cut stone bearing masonry
Bourgeois Gothic
This is a civic building ornamented to rival religious structures.
Gothic style began in the Medieval Age and moved thorough the 20th century. Imagine those entering in 1470 and beyond. -
Jan 1, 1500
Whose Sleeves - Japan Screen
Another mystery, which sleeves will the woman select today? What mood will she be in, what color, what pattern? This transcends time for each of us select our day's attire. This so simple work says so much and leads us to imagine. -
Jan 1, 1570
Portrait of a child of the house of Redetti by Moroni
This precocious child is wise beyond her years and one can easily imagine contemporary dress and the look would be the same. She is a little lady already thinking of the world ahead of her. -
The Artist's Mother: Head and Bust by Rembrandt
At first, I could not find the esssence in this sketch, however, the longer I viewed the more the motherly connection came clear to me. Slightlly alter her attire and she is my grandmother weary after lovingly preparing the Thanksgiving feast or pensive as she contemplates life. Whether 1600 or 2000 the motherly demeanor is present. -
Madam X by Sargent
Recent technology has revealed the artist first had a strap off the shoulder; but an outcry prompted him move it to a more "proper place." What a mystery she is. We do not need the slipping strap to see the quality of this work. The artist's imagination and the viewer's can wonder is she haughty, seductive, bored, posing proudly in the still poplular black dress the indvidual can only imagine. -
Queen Victoria by Sully
Metropolitan Museum educator, Joseph Loh, points out that we often think of this Queen as a mother of many and a dowdy widow dressed in black. He is right that has been my presentation to students. Here I see an attractive, confident, royal figure who accomplished so much. A woman who has an age named for her deserves this portrayal to go down in history. -
Princesse de Broglie by Ingres
While I love the color and lines and the delicate form, the story is even more intriguing and we love a story as Dewey and other philosophers have stated. The Princesse died in her early 30's, and her husband commisioned the work. He kept it draped so only he would gaze at it when he wished to remember her. The art's quality is present and universally we love a romantic story. -
Woman Seen From Back by Aguado
We read of a lawn and our imagination able to see what was beyond our sight. Is that not true of this painting. Collingwood spoke the artist's imagination, then the viewer's imagination. The hairstyle and the dress are of an earlier period, but that does not stand in the way of the viewer wondering does her face have a look of pleasure or is it pensive? That is left to the imagination. -
West Minister New Palace, the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben
English Gothic revival, again a revival of the gothic that we are drawn to even today. Imagine the early House of Lords and House of Commons busily working in this setting. -
Brooklyn Bridge by John Augustus Roebling,finished by his son
The style includes Gothic Piers and functionalist cables and the bridge deck. -
Gertrude Stein by Picasso
While this Piccaso piece does not excite my imagination, Gertrude Stein was so important to the arts that she had to be included in my room of women; her independence as a woman in the early 1900's is noteworthy. The stern face belies someone who encouraged so many of the arts; is she pondering the impact she has had? -
Wayzata, Minnisota, Little House, by Frank Lloyd Wright
The Frank Lloyd Wright Room is the essences of Wright's "organic architecure and the home itself also has "low pavilions intersepersed with gardens and terraces, which, in plan, radiate from a symbolic hearth.
The Metropolitan"Museum's installation has sought to preserve the continuity between interior and exterior by reconstructing the exterior facades in the side passageways and providing a view of Central Park."
It seemed only fitting to include a sample of Frank Lloyd Wright's work. -
Lister County Courthouse: Sweden
"This buildiing occupies an important position in the sequence of his classical designs..." by Eric Gunner.
There are three photos for this plain exterior fools the viewer, imagine what is inside and click the next frame. -
Lister County Courthouse Sweden
"Inner traffic is elegantly solved."
Did you imagine the exterior would lead you to this? -
Lister County Courthouse Interior
In the Courtroom " daylight shines through the circular roof window" with a round and squared window " which conbined focuses the light on the supposed negotiators and members of the court, close to the bench..."
Did you imagine this? -
Lincoln Memorial
Greek Doric style - universally applealing and conveying something profound. -
Lincoln Portrait by Aaron Copland
Appropriately accompanies the Lincoln Memorial as two art forms revere Lincoln and the United States he imagined.
Written in 1942, Lincoln Portrait, by Aaron Copland...It played an inspirational role when it was written, during the dark, early days of World War II.But it continued to inspire over the decades, with countless notable narrators giving voice to the words by Abraham Lincoln that Copland chose for his tribute. (www.wgbh.org) -
The Fisher Building of Detroit, Michigan by Joseph N. French
The Fisher Building features the Art Deco style.
The Art Deco so represents the 20's and as Dewey said we must imagine those who were busy work in this hall in 1928. -
Empire State Building, NYC
Architects: Shreve, Lamb and Harmon
Low Key Art Deco
Now,1930, imagine again the first to work in this building. -
United States Supreme Court
A Neoclassical Style began mid 18th century and continues in the 20th century. Strength is conveyed in this architecture and again, imagine, the changes in policy this building has seen. In 1937, the poll tax was upheld because it applied to all races. How far we have come, how far we still must go. Imagine. -
Arhus Town Hall by Arne Jacobson
Architecture is certainly an art.
There are three photos of this building for the exterior will fool you. Imagine what the exterior look like. We are universally drawn to light and the sky. -
Arhus Town Hall in Denmark by Arne Jacobson
The bell tower was not in the orginal design but to meet the wishes of the citizens it was added.
Style is modern. -
Arhus Town Hall by Arne Jacobson
The offices are accessible from and oblong roofed court. Did you imagine this view as you looked at the other two photos? -
La Grande Arche Paris
This goverment office tower has a fabric canopy and transparent tube elevator unde the huge square arch. Completed by Paul Andreau.
Imagine looking into the future as you gaze at the sky through this Modern Architecture 's Arche. -
Ayn Rand, a Woman Novelist who imagined.
I am often asked whether I am primarily a novelist or a philosopher. The answer is: both. In a certain sense, every novelist is a philosopher, because one cannot present a picture of human existence without a philosophical framework. . . . In order to define, explain and present my concept of man, I had to become a philosopher in the specific meaning of the term.
