art and design
sweatshop
from banksy posted in art and design by nevereatshreddedwheat
Banksy's sweatshop laborer on the side of a Poundmark store in North London. This one has been covered by plexiglass with some of that union jack bunting preserved between the plexiglass and the wall.
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from photography, joseph nicephore niepce posted in art and design by tacopolis
Displayed in the Harry Ransom Center, at the University of Texas in Austin, is the first photograph.
Taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (French, 1765–1833) in 1826 or 1827, the photograph is entitled View from the Window at Le Gras, and it depicts the courtyard, trees and buildings of Niépce’s estate.
Niépce had been experimenting with a way to combine a method of printmaking using light and chemistry. At the same time, he wanted to use a camera obscura to capture direct views of nature.
From the Henry Ransom brochure:
After experimenting with paper, glass, and stone supports for various resins that hardened when exposed to light, Niépce began to use pewter plates in 1826. Sometime during that year or the next he coated his pewter plate with bitumen of Judea (an asphalt derivative of petroleum) and loaded it into a camera obscura looking out the window of his second-story workroom....
He called his invention "heliography," or sun-drawing...
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from sculpture, allen christian posted in art and design by prof_improbable
Allen Christian's workshop/living space/gallery is located in the Warehouse District of Minneapolis. Called the House of Balls and open to the public at varying times, the unique art space is a representation of his artistic belief "that the non-living thing acquires soul from contact with the living."
Visitors can check his website to make arrangements for visit, but even if the space is closed you can access the sculptures by pushing buttons and speaking into a recorded audio loop on the exterior.
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from frank lloyd wright posted in art and design by corporate_sunshine
Commissioned in 1956, the La Fond house was completed in 1960, a year after FLW's death. The home is an example of a prefabricated model that Wright completed with Marshal Erdman and Associates (ME&A).
The prefab homes were originally featured in a December 1956 issue of House and Home magazine. Prospective clients were asked to submit a plot map of the lot where the home was to be built, and FLW would come to the house after completion to install his red signature brick (if it met his approval). The La Fond home is an example of the Prefab #1 plan of the FLW/ME&A collaboration.
james b. mcbean house
from frank lloyd wright posted in art and design by corporate_sunshine
Completed in 1957, the James McBean residence is an example of a prefabricated house that FLW created with Marshall Erdman and Associates. Wright came up with plans for three different types of prefabricated houses that were to be constructed by ME&A. The McBean residence is an example of the second type of prefab homes.
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