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Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier Maquette of the Open Hand monument, ca. 1956 – 1959

A model of the Open Hand Monument (ca. 1956 – 1959), by Le Corbusier.

By mh | Posted in Abstraction | Also tagged architect, chandigarh, design, French, give, government, India, Le Corbusier, leitmotif, model, open hand monument, peace, prosperity, public art, romance, sculpture, swiss, symbol, symbolic, take, theme, unity, unknown, wall | Comments (0)

Luis Camnitzer

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Luis Camnitzer, ‘The discovery of geometry’ (1978)

By mh | Posted in Abstraction | Also tagged action, american, block, clouds, cotton wool, culture, discovery, DIY, found, fuckem, fun, geometry, german, hand, holding, light, luis camnitzer, nature, performance, photograph, picture, public art, replace, representation, romance, sculpture, shape, sky, space, study, the wild, unknown, uruguayan | Comments (0)

John Constable

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John Constable, ‘Study of clouds at Hampstead’ (1821)

By mh | Posted in Composition | Also tagged blue, british, clouds, DIY, english, found, hampstead, John Constable, light, london, naturalist, nature, outside, painting, place, romance, romantic, sky, study, surface, uk, unknown, weather conditions | Comments (0)

Frederick Childe Hassam

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‘Avenue of the Allies, Great Britain’ (1918) by Childe Hassam

By mh | Posted in Composition | Also tagged Abstraction, action, allies, America, american, architecture, avenue, buildings, busy, cars, colors, flags, frederick childe hassam, fuckem, great britain, impressionism, nations, painter, painting, people, politics, sky, street, the wild, traffic, unknown, USA | Comments (0)

Theo van Doesburg

Theo van Doesburg. Eine Stadt fur den Verkehr, 1929

Theo van Doesburg, ‘Eine Stadt für den Verkehr’ (one city for traffic) (1929)

By mh | Posted in Abstraction | Also tagged architecture, black, buildings, city, de stijl, design, drawing, dutch, lines, mechanics, modernism, modernist, netherlands, painting, pattern, romance, sculpture, street view, system, theo van doesburg, traffic, unknown, utopia, wall, white | Comments (0)

Rem Koolhaas

Rem Koolhaas, Drawing of Dreamland, 1977

Rem Koolhaas, ‘Drawing of Dreamland’ (1977)

By mh | Posted in Composition | Also tagged architecture, basement, city, collection, DIY, down, drawing, dreamland, dutch, earth, fiction, fuckem, netherlands, organisation, organism, plan, Rem Koolhaas, romance, section, surface, under, unknown | Comments (0)

Nail houses

Nail house in Wenling-China

A nail house is a Chinese neologism for homes belonging to people (sometimes called “stubborn nails”) who refuse to make room for real estate development. The term, a pun coined by developers, refers to nails that are stuck in wood, and cannot be pounded down with a hammer.

By mh | Posted in Composition | Also tagged action, architecture, capitalism, China, chinese, developers, development, DIY, fuckem, hammer, installation, life, misplaced, nail house, nails, place, protest, public art, real estate, refusal, remnant, sculpture, single, space, the wild, violence, wall, wood | Comments (0)

Saul Steinberg

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‘View of the world from 9th Ave.’, the March 29, 1976 cover for The New Yorker, by Saul Steinberg.

By mh | Posted in Composition | Also tagged 9th avenue, american, architecture, cartoon, central, city, collection, comic, cover, desert, drawing, far east, found, illustration, jersey city, jewish, manhattan, New York, plan, romance, romanian, saul steinberg, street, street view, text, unknown | Comments (0)

Victor Pasmore

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Victor Pasmore’s ‘Apollo Pavilion’ (1969) in Peterlee, England.

By mh | Posted in Composition | Also tagged action, Apollo, architecture, bridge, community, concrete, construction, constructivist, england, fuckem, gray, grey, installation, murals, oval, painting, pavilion, peterlee, public art, shapes, town planning, uk, unknown, use, vandalism, Victor Pasmore, wall | Comments (0)

Byron Company

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Snapped in New York on the roof of the Marceau Studio on Fifth Avenue, by a group of photographers working for the Byron Company, this picture is one of the first selfies in history, made in 1920. (via)

By mh | Posted in Composition | Also tagged 20th century, action, american, black, byron company, DIY, found, fuckem, fun, group, history, men, New York, older, photograph, photography, romance, roof, self-portrait, selfie, unknown, white | Comments (0)

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