The Inspiration Behind Art Deco Finishes on Aluminum
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At home with eco-housing
The time has come for low-energy housing in Belgium, as regional governments invest in lower energy consumption Anyone feeling particularly glum about life here as the mercury sinks has a point: houses in Belgium are, typically, poorly insulated and better equipped for Mediterranean climes. As we turn up the heat to stave off the winter chill, much of it goes straight out the window; not so good for our pockets, especially as oil prices trend upwards. Also out the window are Belgium’s climate change pledges, if the regional governments, responsible for environmental policy, don’t do something to cut households’ energy consumption. This is a large contributor (in Brussels, the largest) to national greenhouse gas emissions. This has given the impetus needed to put low-energy housing on to the political agenda and into the mainstream. “Nowadays, authorities build passive houses and private real estate companies are interested and more ambitious as well.”
Shadow play
Chinese shadow theatre figures Shadow play is popular in various cultures; currently there are more than 20 countries known to have shadow show troupes. Shadow play is an old tradition and it has a long history in Southeast Asia; especially in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia. It is also considered as an ancient art in other parts of Asia such as in China, India and Nepal. §Chinese[edit] §Mainland China[edit] Shadow puppetry originated during the Han Dynasty when one of the concubines of Emperor Wu of Han died from an illness. §Taiwan Ping[edit] The origins of Taiwan's shadow puppetry can be traced to the Chaochow school of shadow puppet theatre. §Terminology[edit] A number of terms are used to describe the different forms. (皮影戏, pí yĭng xì) is a shadow theatre using leather puppets. §France[edit] Part of the collection of the Museo del PRECINEMA, Padua §India[edit] §Indonesia[edit] The performances of shadow puppet theater are accompanied by gamelan in Java. §Malaysia[edit]
Art Nouveau
Style of art and architecture about 1890 to 1911 One major objective of Art Nouveau was to break down the traditional distinction between fine arts (especially painting and sculpture) and applied arts. It was most widely used in interior design, graphic arts, furniture, glass art, textiles, ceramics, jewellery and metal work. The style responded to leading 19-century theoreticians, such as French architect Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879) and British art critic John Ruskin (1819–1900). In Britain, it was influenced by William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement. German architects and designers sought a spiritually uplifting Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art") that would unify the architecture, furnishings, and art in the interior in a common style, to uplift and inspire the residents.[3] From Belgium and France, it spread to the rest of Europe, taking on different names and characteristics in each country (see Naming section below). Naming[edit] History[edit] Origins[edit]
- Art Deco Society of New York
Art Informel Movement, Art Informel Style, Art Informel Pictures
Art Informel The Art Informel style was developed between 1950 to 1960. The term was first used in 1952 by the French writer Michel Tapie who is the author of the book ‘Un Art Autre’ or ‘Art of Another Kind’. Tapié saw this art as 'other' because it appeared to him as a complete break with tradition. An important source of this kind of painting was the Surrealist doctrine of automatism. After WWII painters contemplated the legacy of geometric abstraction characterized in the early 20th century developments (through Cubism, Futurism, Suprematism, Constructivism and De Stijl) as a load and the cold intellectualism, out of touch with the post WWII reality of poverty and despair. From the reaction was born a new painting style which was fully abstract but didn't rely on intellectualist methodology. The Informel artist was not interested in trying, at all cost, to have total control over the processes of artistic work. Most Notable Artists:
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Minimalism
In the visual arts and music, minimalism is a style that uses pared-down design elements. §Minimal art, minimalism in visual art[edit] In France between 1947 and 1948,[12] Yves Klein conceived his Monotone Symphony (1949, formally The Monotone-Silence Symphony) that consisted of a single 20-minute sustained chord followed by a 20-minute silence[13][14] – a precedent to both La Monte Young's drone music and John Cage's 4′33″. There have been some further constructions of what I wrote that go over into preposterousness: That I regard flatness and the inclosing of flatness not just as the limiting conditions of pictorial art, but as criteria of aesthetic quality in pictorial art; that the further a work advances the self-definition of an art, the better that work is bound to be. Because of a tendency in minimal art to exclude the pictorial, illusionistic and fictive in favor of the literal, there was a movement away from painterly and toward sculptural concerns. §Minimalist design[edit]
