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Michelangelo: 1475-1564

March 6, 2017 By Wendy Campbell

Born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese, Italy, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was a Renaissance sculptor, painter, draftsman, architect, and poet. Michelangelo was thought of as the greatest living artist in his lifetime, and is considered to be one of the greatest artists of all time.

In 1488, at the age of 13, Michelangelo apprenticed with Domenico Ghirlandaio, Florence’s best fresco painter. Following that, he studied with sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni in the Medici gardens in Florence. During this time, he was surrounded by prominent people including Lorenzo de’ Medici (known as “Lorenzo the Magnificent”), who introduced him to poets, artists, and scholars in his inner circle.

Early on, Michelangelo strove for artistic perfection in his depictions of the human body. He studied anatomy with great interest and at one point even gained permission from the prior of the church of Santo Spirito to study cadavers in the church’s hospital. It was at this time that Michelangelo began a life-long practice of preparatory drawing and sketching for his works of art and architecture.

After Medici’s death in 1492, Michelangelo left Florence, traveled to Bologna and eventually to Rome, where he continued to sculpt and study classical works. In 1498-99, the French Ambassador in the Holy See commissioned Michelangelo to sculpt the “Pietà” for Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican.

In 1501, Michelangelo returned to Florence where he began work on his famous marble statue “David”. This work established Michelangelo’s prominence as a sculptor of incredible technical skill and innovation.

In 1503, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to create his papal tomb which features the famous statue of Moses. The artist worked on the tomb for 40 years, stopping often to work on other commissions including the painting of more than 300 figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel from 1508-12.

From 1534 to 1541, Michelangelo produced an enormous fresco “The Last Judgment” in the Sistine Chapel. “A depiction of the second coming of Christ and the apocalypse, the work was controversial even before its unveiling because of the depictions of nude saints in the papal chapel, which were considered obscene and sacrilegious.”

From about 1516, Michelangelo began to focus his attention more on architecture. In 1534, he designed plans for the Medici Tombs and the Laurentian Library attached to the church of San Lorenzo. In 1536, he designed the Piazza del Campidoglio, and in 1546 he was appointed architect of Saint Peter’s Basilica and designed its dome. From 1561-65, Michelangelo’s final plans were for the Porta Pia, a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome.

More than any other artist, “Michelangelo elevated the status of the artist above the level of craftsman. His deeply felt religious convictions were manifested in his art. For him, the body was the soul’s prison. By using movement, monumental forms, and gesture to express spiritual urges, he opened up new artistic vistas in the direction of Mannerism and the Baroque.”

Michelangelo was known to be a complicated man. “Arrogant with others and constantly dissatisfied with himself, he nonetheless authored tender poetry. In spite of his legendary impatience and indifference to food and drink, he committed himself to tasks that required years of sustained attention, creating some of the most beautiful human figures ever imagined.”

“He constantly cried poverty, even declaring to his apprentice Ascanio Condivi: ‘However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man’, yet he amassed a considerable fortune that kept his family comfortable for centuries. And though he enjoyed the reputation of being a solitary genius and continually withdrew himself from the company of others, he also directed dozens of assistants, quarrymen, and stonemasons to carry out his work.”

Michelangelo’s final work in marble, the “Rondanini Pietà,” was left unfinished. He died in Rome on February 18, 1564 at the age of 88.



The Creation of Man-Sistine Chapel-Michelangelo- 1508-12



The-Torment-of-Saint-Anthony---Michelangelo-1487--88

Sources: The Getty Museum, Wikipedia, Michelangelo.syr.edu

Filed Under: Architecture, ART, Art History, Drawing, Painting, Sculpture Tagged With: Italian Art, Italian Renaissance, Michelangelo, Renaissance Art

Friedensreich Hundertwasser: 1928-2000

December 15, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Friedensreich Hundertwasser photo by Hannes GrobeBorn Friedrich Stowasser on December 15, 1928 in Vienna, Austria, Friedensreich Hundertwasser was one of the best-known Austrian painters and architects of the 20th century.

Hundertwasser studied briefly at the Montessori school in Vienna, and in 1948 he studied 19th century watercolour landscape at the Fine Art Academy. He was influenced by the art of the Vienna Seccesion, the Austrian figurative painter Egon Schiele, and Gustav Klimt.

In 1949, Hundertwasser traveled to Italy and met the French artist René Brô, with whom he later painted murals in Paris. During this time his work became more abstract but still contained symbolic figurative elements. Hundertwasser had his first solo exhibition in 1952 at the Art Club in Vienna.

In 1953, Hundertwasser’s spiral motif began to appear in his work and was a reference to the creation of life. This motif became a constant element in his paintings, which included a combination of contrasting colors and vibrant pigments. In 1953, Hundertwasser developed his “transautomatism” theory which focused on the innate creativity of the viewer.

It wasn’t until the 1950s that Hundertwasser began focusing on architecture. This began with manifestos, essays and demonstrations. In his view, the welfare of human beings depended on the style of architecture in which their houses were built. He believed that “architecture would be the people’s third skin and that everybody must be enabled to design this skin as he likes, just as he may design his first (his natural skin) and his second skin (his clothes).”

In 1958, Hundertwasser released his treatise against rationalism in architecture titled “Verschimmelungmanifest”. In the 1960s he traveled to Europe and Asia and began producing architectural models for ecological structures. He also started refurbishing and decorating public and private buildings. He successfully took part in the Tokyo International Art Exhibition in 1960, and the following year he showed at the Venice Biennale.

Hundertwasser became interested in graphics during the 1970s and designed the poster for the 1971 Monaco Olympics. Hundertwasser also created flags, stamps, coins, and posters. His most famous flag is the Koru Flag. Along with designing postage stamps for the Austrian Post Office, he also created stamps for the Cape Verde islands, and for the United Nations postal administration in Geneva for the 35th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

In 1973, he published a portfolio of woodcuts by various Japanese artists who had used his paintings as inspiration. In 1972, he published a manifesto on “the right to a window space” and in 1978, the Manifesto of Peace. Both reflected the artist’s ideology about searching for harmony between man and nature.

In 1998, the Institue Mathildenhöhe of Darmstadt held a retrospective of Hundertwasser’s work. The following year he moved to New Zealand and continued to work on architectural projects. In 1999, Hundertwasser started his last project named Die Grüne Zitadelle von Magdeburg. He never finished this project although the building was constructed a few years later in Magdeburg, Germany, and opened on October 3, 2005.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser died of a heart attack while on board the Queen Elizabeth II on February 19, 2000. For more complete biographical information, see the source links below. 




Sources:  Wikipedia, Hundertwasser.com, Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Filed Under: Architecture, ART, Art History, Design, Painting Tagged With: Austrian Art, Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Antoni Gaudi: 1852-1926

June 25, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Antoni Plàcid Guillem Gaudí i Cornet was born on June 25, 1852, in Reus, Spain to coppersmith parents. He studied at the Escola Superior d’Arquitectura in Barcelona and designed his first major commission for the Gothic-styled Casa Vincens in Barcelona.

Most of Gaudi’s work was in architecture though he also designed furniture and objects, and worked in town planning and landscaping. Throughout his life, Gaudi studied the angles and curves of nature and incorporated them into his designs. Gaudi’s style was beautifully expressive and his signature warped form of Gothic design, established him as a leader in the Spanish Art Nouveau movement and drew admiration from avant-garde artists.

Gaudi’s major works include La Sagrada Familia Cathedral, Casa Vicens, Park Guell, Palau Guell, and Casa Mila – aka ‘La Pedrera’. Gaudí spent most of his professional career building the Church of La Sagrada Família. He received the commission in late 1883 and it occupied his whole life. The massive Cathedral is still under construction with an estimated completion date of 2026.

On June 7, 1926, Gaudi was hit by a tram and died of his injuries three days later. His body was buried in the crypt of the edifice where he had worked for the last 43 years of his life, La Sagrada Familia.

For a detailed biography and to view more of Gaudi’s work, visit GaudiClub.com or click on the source links below.

Antoni Gaudí park-guell
Antoni Gaudí park-guell
Casa_batllo_roof-Antoni-Gauci

Chimney Palau Guell - Antoni Gaudi
La Pedrera - Antoni Gaudi
Casa Batllo -Antoni-Gaudi

Antoni Gaudi Sagrada Família
Church of La Sagrada Família 2- Antoni-Gaudi
Antoni Gaudí park-guell

Church of La Sagrada Família - Antoni-Gaudi
Casa Vicens - Atoni Gaudi
Casa Mila - Antoni Gaudi

Antoni Gaudi Sagrada Família
Casa Mila - Antoni Gaudi
Casabatllo-Antoni-Gaudi

Sources: Sagrada Familia, Gaudi Club, Wikipedia
Image Sources: Studio Tsunami, Great Buildings, FStifter, Marudadu.com, Webshots

Filed Under: Architecture, ART, Art History Tagged With: Antoni Gaudi, La Sagrada Familia Cathedral, Spain Architecture, Spanish Architecture

Raphael: 1483-1520

April 6, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Born in Urbino, Italy on April 6 (or March 28) 1483, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino aka Raphael was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. Though his career was short,  Raphael produced works of “extraordinary refinement” that would have a great influence on European painting. Along with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, Raphael was a member of the trinity of the great masters of the Renaissance.

Raphael first trained with his father Giovanni Santi, who was a court painter. After his father’s death in 1494, he traveled extensively and worked with several masters including the dominant Umbrian painter Pietro Perugino. From about 1500, Raphael became an independent master  and worked throughout central Italy where he became known as a portraitist and painter of Madonnas.

In 1508, Raphael moved to Rome to work on Pope Julius II’s papal apartments. “Raphael’s frescoes there and the  Stanza d’Eliodoro and dell’Incendio, along with Michelangelo’s work in the nearby Sistine Chapel, represent the finest examples of High Renaissance art. “

Raphael’s commissions increased in Rome and he was dependent on teams of assistants to assist in the completion of his projects. He was a superior draftsmen and used drawings extensively  to refine his poses and compositions, apparently to a greater extent than most other painters.

After the achitect Donato Bramante’s death in 1514, Raphael was named architect of  St Peter’s Basilica. Most of his work there was altered or demolished after his death and the acceptance of Michelangelo’s design, but a few drawings have survived. Raphael designed several other buildings, and for a short time was the most important architect in Rome, working for a small circle around the Papacy.

The Vatican projects took most of Raphael’s  time. “Among Raphael’s most famous works are the frescos that are painted on the walls of Julius II’s own rooms in the Vatican Palace, known as the Stanze. The paintings in the Stanza della Segnatura and the Stanza d’Eliodoro were created by Raphael himself, whilst the Stanza dell’Incendio was designed by Raphael and painted by his assistants.”

Another important papal commission was the “Raphael Cartoons”, a series of 10 cartoons, of which seven survive, for tapestries with scenes of the lives of Saint Paul and Saint Peter, for the Sistine Chapel. The cartoons were sent to Brussels to be woven in the workshop of Pier van Aelst. It is possible that Raphael saw the finished series before his death which were most likely completed in 1520.

At the age of 37, Raphael died on his birthday, April 6, 1520, after a short illness. He was buried in the Pantheon.   His two main assistants, Giulio Romano and Gianfrancesco Penni, inherited his studio and completed the outstanding contracts.

“Raphael was highly admired by his contemporaries, although his influence on artistic style in his own century was less than that of Michelangelo. Mannerism, beginning at the time of his death, and later the Baroque, took art “in a direction totally opposed” to Raphael’s qualities with Raphael’s death, classic art – the High Renaissance – subsided.”

Self-Portrait-Raphael-1506
The-Transfiguration-Raphael-1518-1520
The-Three-Graces-Raphael-1504-05
The-Parnassus-Raphael-1509-1511
The-Battle-at-Pons-Milvius-Raphael-1520-24
Self-Portrait-Raphael-1499
School-of-Athens-Raphael-1509
Psyche Received on Olympus-Raphael-1517
Portrait-of-Pope-Leo-X-and-Two-Cardinals-Raphael-1519-19
Portrait of a Woman-Raphael-1507
Madonna-della-Seggiola-Raphael-1514
Madonna-and-Child-Enthroned-with-Saints-Raphael-1504-05
Lady-with-a-Unicorn-Raphael-1505
La-Fornarina-Raphael-1518
Kneeling-Nude-Woman-Raphael-1518
Holy-Family-with-St.-Joseph-Raphael-1506
Holy-Family-below-the-Oak-Raphael-1518
Healing-of-the-Lame-Man-Raphael-1515
Gregory-IX-Approving-the-Decretals---Raphael-1511
Double-Portrait-Raphael-1518
Diotalevi-Madonna-Raphael-1503
Crucifixion-Raphael-1502-03
Christ-Supported-by-Two-Angels-Raphael-1490
Christ Falls on the Way to Calvary-Raphael-1517
Ceiling-Stanza di Eliodoro-Raphael-1512
Ceiling-Stanza della Segnatura-Raphael-1509-1511
Cardinal Tommaso Inghirami-Raphael-1515-16
Bridgewater-Madonna-Raphael-1511
Head of a Muse - Raphael

 

Sources: J. Paul Getty Museum, National Gallery London, Athenaeum (images), Wikipedia

Filed Under: Architecture, ART, Art History, Drawing, Painting Tagged With: Italian Art, Italian Renaissance, Raphael, St. Peter's Basilica

International Women’s Day 2016 – Women in the Visual Arts

March 8, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

In honour of International Women’s Day this year, we bring you a visual selection of women artists that have appeared on Daily Art Fixx over the last seven years.  Enjoy!  Click on an image to open the gallery.

Elizabeth Catlett - Sharecropper
The Dinner Party - Judy Chicago
I wait - Julia Margaret Cameron
Berthe_Morisot,_Le_berceau_The_Cradle_1872
Artemisia Gentileschi - Danae
Roots - Frida Kahlo
The Child's Bath - Mary Cassatt
Blunden Harbour-1928-32 Emily Carr
Louise-Bourgeois_Annie Leibovitz
Early Skating - Anna-Mary-Robertson (Grandma) Moses
rp_peter_rabbit_first_edition_1902-beatrix-potter.jpg
Born-Kiki-Smith-2002
Portrait-of-Marie-Antoinette-Elisabeth-Louise-Vigee-le-Brun-1783
The-Happy-Couple-Judith-Leyster-1630
Valle de la luna-Remedios Varo 1950
Self Portrait-Paula_Modersohn-Becker-1906
Green-Purple-Cross-Jenny-Holzer
Birth-Lee Krasner-1956
Niki de Saint Phalle - Tarot Garden
Laura Wheeler Waring
Georgia Okeeffe-Music-Pink and Blue ii-1919
Portrait-of-JFK---Elaine-de-Kooning-1963
Spider - Louise Bourgeois
Market-at-Minho - Sonia Delaunay-1915
Self Portrait -Girl at the Spinet - Catharine van Hemessen-1548
Yayoi Kusama
Kara Walker
Portrait-of-Beatrice-Cenci-Elisabetta-Sirani-1662
The Waltz-Camille Claudel-1905
The Kiss, Tamara De Lempicka
Figure-With-Ribbons-Edith-Branson
Metamorphosis-of-a-Butterfly-Maria-Sibylla-Merian
Untitled 1992-Cindy-Sherman
Barbara_Hepworth_Winged_Figure_1963
Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany-Hannah Hoch-1919
Mary-Beale-Portrait-of-a-Young-Girl-c.1681
Eva Hesse Contingent-1968
Marina Abramović -The Artist is Present
Sofonisba_Anguissola-self-portrait-1554
Diane Arbus-Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, New York City 1962
Red Abstraction-Alma Thomas-1960
Lillian Bassman 3
Daphne-Odjig_The-Indian-in-Transition
Sam Mosher © Lois Greenfield-1995
Pine-Marten---Rona-Pondick
Meredith Dittmar
Portland-Oregon-Cake
Die © Faith Ringgold - 1967
rp_Backlash-Blues-Wangechi-Mutu-594x1024.jpg
Sea of Love © Esther Barend
bowery-bum-new-york-Berenice-Abbott-1932
rp_self-portrait-as-booty-julie-heffernan.jpg
Alexa Meade
Girl with-Dog © Marion Peck
Porcelain II - Study of a Girl © Mary Jane Ansell
Zena Holloway
The Long Awaited - Patricia Piccinini

Filed Under: Architecture, ART, Art History, Collage, Illustration, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Street Art, Women in Visual Arts Tagged With: International Women's Day

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 15

July 26, 2010 By Wendy Campbell

Enjoy your Monday Mixx!




Filed Under: Architecture, ART, Digital, Group Feature, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: Andrea Gatti, Art Gallery of Alberta, Daniela Edburg, Linnea Strid, Mark Brown, Oleg Denysenko, Peterio, Susan Battin, Zhang Linhai

Earth Day 2010:
5 Eco-Artists Making a Difference

April 22, 2010 By Wendy Campbell

Own World © Jerico Santander

It’s Earth Day everyone – a day established to inspire awareness and appreciation for the earth and our environment. Founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in in 1970, Earth day is now celebrated on April 22nd in almost every country around the globe.

In celebration of Earth Day 2010, I present five artists whose work raises awareness about our relationship with the earth and/or use materials and resources in an eco-friendly way to create their art.

First, what is environmental art? According to GreenMuseum.org, eco-art is “in a general sense, it is art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world. Some environmental art:

  • Informs and interprets nature and its processes, or educates us about environmental problems.
  • Is concerned with environmental forces and materials, creating artworks affected or powered by wind, water, lightning, even  earthquakes.
  • Re-envisions our relationship to nature, proposing new ways for us to co-exist with our environment.
  • Reclaims and remediates damaged environments, restoring ecosystems in artistic and often aesthetic ways.

And now the artists:

1. Sara Hall: Glass Artist – Hall’s recent work  in architectural glass focuses on the integration of art and solar technology.  Energy that is gathered through the solar cells is used to illuminate both the artwork and its surroundings at night.  Hall says, “By forging an image with a source of renewable energy, we create a powerful story about how we can live in this world:  It gives us a chance to dream about who we can be.”  See more at SaraHallStudio.com.

2. Chris Jordan: Photography/Digital Art – Jordan’s photographs and digital photo compilations depict images of western culture’s consumerism revealing the startling statistics of our daily consumption. He transforms the data about everyday items such as paper cups, cell phones, plastic bottles, and other mass produced goods, and makes large-format, long-zoom artwork.  “Collectively we are committing a vast and unsustainable act of taking, but we each are anonymous and no one is in charge or accountable for the consequences. I fear that in this process we are doing irreparable harm to our planet and to our individual spirits.” See more at Chris Jordan.com. An inspiring TED talk is featured on Daily Art Fixx here.

3. John Dahlsen: Environmental Assemblage Art – Australian artist Dahlsen creates works of art  from the vast quantities of plastic and litter washed up along the Victorian coastline. Dahlsen says, “Making this art has been a way of sharing my messages for the need to care for our environment with a broad audience. I feel that even if just a fraction of the viewing audience were to experience a shift in their awareness and consciousness about the environment and art, through being exposed to this artwork then it would be worth it.” See more at JohnDahlsen.com.

4. Laurie Chetwood: Architecture – Chetwood’s “Urban Oasis” opened on 19th June 2006 as a temporary structure on Clerkenwell Green and is a demonstration of sustainability and renewable energy working. The 12 metre high kinetic structure mimics the design of a growing flower: its photovoltaic “petals” open and close in response to the sun and the moon utilizing daylight to generate power. This is supplemented by a hydrogen fuel cell and wind turbine to make it self-sufficient. It even uses rainwater it has collected for irrigation and cooling. At the base, the Oasis has five “pods” inside which people are secluded from the noisy and polluted city surroundings, enjoying cleaner cooled air and relaxing sounds.  See more at Chetwoods.com.  See the Oasis in action here on YouTube.

5. Aurora Robson: Sculpture – New York based artist Robson uses everyday waste such as discarded plastic bottles and junk mail to create intricate sculptures, installations, and collages. In the past year, Robson has intercepted about 30,000 bottles, saving them from their ultimate destination at the landfill or costly recycling plants. The fate of her junk mail follows a similar path and have now become part of her stunning ink collages. Robson’s environmentally conscious works grew out of her love and appreciation for nature and from the nightmares she had as a child. Her goal is to “take something inherently negative and transform it into something positive.” Her art is “ultimately about recognizing and embracing new possibilities while encouraging others to do the same.” See more at AuroraRobson.com.

For more information about eco-art, visit GreenMuseum.org. For more about Earth Day, visit Earth Day Network.

Related Books:
Green Guide for Artists: Nontoxic Recipes, Green Art Ideas, & Resources for the Eco-Conscious Artist

Eco Craft: Recycle Recraft Restyle

Good Earth Art: Environmental Art for Kids (Bright Ideas for Learning)



Filed Under: Architecture, ART, Eco-Art, Mixed Media, Photography, Sculpture, Women in Visual Arts Tagged With: Assemblage Art, Aurora Robson, Chris Jordan, Earth Day 2010, Glass Art, John Dahlsen, Laurie Chetwood, Photovoltaic Energy, Sara Hall

Bjarke Ingels: Architecture – Ted Talk

September 17, 2009 By Wendy Campbell

Zira Island - Bjarke Ingels Group

I came across this recent TED talk from award winning Danish architect Bjarke Ingels  and just had to share.  Bjarke tells three photo/video stories of the Bjarke Ingels Group’s design philosophy and eco-minded buildings that not only look like nature, but act like it.

To see more of Bjarke Ingels’ inspiring work, visit BIG.dk.


Filed Under: Architecture, ART, Video

Remembering 9/11: Architecture of the
World Trade Center Memorial & Museum

September 11, 2009 By Wendy Campbell

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum - World Trade Center MemorialIt has been eight years since the tragedies of 9/11 and for many people, myself included, the memory of that day still rings loudly in our hearts and minds.  With this in mind, I decided to bring myself up to date on the rebuilding of the site of the World Trade Center, specifically the architectural designs of the Memorial and Museum.

As many of you know, renowned architect Daniel Libeskind’s design study was selected as the master plan for the rebuilding.  The plan includes a towering spire of 1776 feet, the construction of a memorial with waterfalls, an underground museum, a visitor center, retail space, and four office towers that will reach the height of the Freedom Tower.

For over five years, Libeskind has been coordinating with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Foster and Partners, Maki and Associates, Richard Rogers Partnership, and Santiago Calatrava to realize “Memory Foundations – a truly remarkable design that will reclaim New York’s skyline”.

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center Foundation has worked with the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation since 2005 on the design and construction management plan and in 2006, assumed responsibility for overseeing the project. The Memorial design, created by architects Michael Arad and Peter Walker, was selected from a competition that included more than 5,200 entrants from 63 countries.

The Memorial will honour the nearly three thousand people who died in the attacks of February 26, 1993, and September 11, 2001.  It will consist of two  pools (nearly one acre each in size) set within the footprints of the Twin Towers and will include the largest man-made waterfalls in the country cascading down their sides. The names of the victims in New York City, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon, will be inscribed around the edges of the Memorial pools.

 As well, an eight-acre landscaped Memorial Plaza filled with nearly 400 trees will be created and will provide a peaceful space away from the sights and sounds of the city.

The Memorial Museum, designed by lead architect Davis Brody Bond, will house a collection of materials including artifacts, photographs, audio and video tapes, personal effects, memorabilia,  and expressions of tribute and remembrance related to the history of the World Trade Center, and the events of September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993. The Norwegian architectural firm Snøhetta designed the Museum Pavilion that will serve as the entrance to the Memorial Museum.

The Artists Registry at the National September 11 Memorial Museum, is an online digital database, gathering place, and virtual art gallery  created in response to the events of 9/11.  Artists range from professionals to amateurs who have a desire to express their reactions to 9/11 through painting, drawing, writing, music, and more.

As of June 2009, 70% of the total steel to be erected for the Memorial and Museum had been installed and concrete pouring was nearly complete for the base level of the north memorial pool.

A public exhibition called “A Space Within” is currently being held through September 14, 2009 at The Center for Architecture in New York which showcases the progress to date of the memorial and museum.

For more information on the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, the Memorial, and the Museum, visit National 911 Memorial.org.

Rendering of New World Trade Center World Trade Center - Daniel Libeskind World Trade Center - Daniel Libeskind

911 © Zbigniew Fitz - The Artists Registry at the National September 11 Memorial Museum September 11th Meredith Bergmann - The Artists Registry at the National September 11 Memorial Museum WTC 4 © Charlotte Ghiorse - The Artists Registry at the National September 11 Memorial Museum

Filed Under: Architecture, ART

Kenzo Tange: Architecture

August 20, 2009 By Wendy Campbell

Kenzo Tange - Fuji TV Building - Odaiba-Tokyo

Once in a while, I take the scenic train out to Odaiba – an artificial island originally constructed in the 1850’s in Tokyo for defensive purposes. Today the island is a major tourist attraction for sightseeing and shopping.  While some mock the island for being the “United States of Odaiba” (Statue of Liberty included), one can’t deny that the area is home to some of the most interesting architecture in Tokyo.

My favourite building on the island is the Fuji TV headquarters designed by architect Kenzo Tange. One of the most significant architects of the 20th century, Tange was born in Osaka in 1913. He completed his undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in Architecture at the University of Tokyo. In 1946  he became an assistant professor and opened the Tange laboratory at the University.

Tange is known for combining traditional Japanese styles with modernism, and has designed major buildings in Japan and around the world including the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (1949), the Yoyogi National Gymnasium (1964), the AMA Building in Chicago (1987), the University of Bahrain (1998), and others.

An influential architect in the Structuralist movement, Tange’s designs have won him international acclaim and numerous awards including the Pritzker Prize for the Yoyogi National Gymnasium, designed for the 1964 Summer Olympics, the AIA Gold Medal (1966), the Order of Culture (1980),  the Order of the Sacred Treasures (1994), and France’s Order of the Legion of Honor (1996).

Kenzo Tange died on March 22, 2005. His funeral was held in the Tokyo Cathedral, one of his most stunning creations.

For more information visit the Kenzo Tange Associates website.

Kenzo Tange - Yoyogi National Gymnasium St Marys Cathedral - Tokyo Kenzo Tange -Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building

Sources: Kenzo Tange Associates, Wikipedia

Filed Under: Architecture, ART, Art History Tagged With: Japanese Architecture, Kenzo Tange

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