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Abstracted piñatas hang in a hallway at the Gladstone Hotel at "Come Up To My Room 11". Pull tabs will release confetti - and more - at the end of the show. I love the colours and inverted landscape here. Created by Jordan Evans, Ryla Jakelski, Evan Jerry.
This abstracted Brutalist exploration of space and light was ostensibly inspired by Okada's trip to the Middle East, taken while the client haggled with the city over the building site. The "solid" exterior works to close off the outside world, with entry through a narrow gap (described as a "fissure"). The top-lit volumes are intended to create a "gentle connection and layering" between spaces, while the tiles (on the ceilings and exterior) and the massing, according to Japan Architect, evoke "the ancient ziggurat." At the same time, the project also supposedly evokes Buddhist temple complexes ; presumably the idea is that the abstract forms can incorporate and recontextualize these all these references into some new synthesis.
I like it. The exterior, as everyone agreed, could have done with a few more drafts (though we liked the light-admitting alabaster panels), but for a smallish local museum with an impossibly good collection, this has a really nicely-scaled and spatially interesting interior. Okada allowed that the organization of galleries around an atrium was "extremely textbook" - but it feels more complex than that when you're inside, and he was right that the effects of the light on the tile, the textured concrete, and the displayed objects would all create an uplifting environment.
This was a rather late addition to the itinerary, but it paid off: this is the good kind of Brutalism, with a good sense of space, scale, light and material that makes a lot out of a few moves.
Surfer's Point, Ventura, California... End of an outstanding sunset.... All loaded somewhat backwards from beginning (A) to end (D)...
Abstracted Nude 3
by Koola Adams
Deco Style, Cubist Style ink drawing on paper.
Frame and mount not included.
Copyright reserved by the artist.
Dispatched by trackable post.
www.contemporary-artists.co.uk/paintings/abstracted-nude-3/
Contemporary Artists
...and suddenly it felt like the wedding reception had sunk into a very deep valley. His head pounded, sounds faded to tin timbres. The pressure was on; why had he come here?
Zero 2000, Kodak Ektar
On leaving the plane in Madrid, one embarks upon a long, long journey to immigration control. It is not quite so long as the journey through Gatwick and is a quick sprint compared to Miami, but feels long nonetheless. The trail takes you through this odd passageway, which was almost disorienting in its geometry.
A shot from yesterday's walk through the wildlife sanctuary, run lightly through an Abstractor filter
Sir Christopher Wren's masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral dominates the heart of the City of London as it has always done (if a little overshadowed by more recent developments these days). The only English cathedral to require total building, Wren embraced the opportunity for a fresh start after the Great Fire of London destroyed its predecessor in 1666. The present building was completed in 1715 when Wren's vision of a major dome (something he had proposed adding to the medieval building before the fire) was finally realised.
England's only purpose built Baroque cathedral, it is built on an impressive scale, one of the very largest churches in the country (echoing the impressive scale of its predecessor, which was an even longer building).
The interior is vast and richly adorned (especially the choir which was adorned with glittering mosaics in the late 19th century) and contains many monuments (many to military heroes) with yet more to be found in the sprawling crypt beneath.
St Paul's always arouses mixed emotions in me, it is beyond doubt a magnificent building, a true spectacle that cannot fail to impress within and without. Wren was a genius, pure and simple, though it should be added this wasn't the design he wanted to build which is closer in plan to a medieval cruciform church; his original proposals deviated from the traditional layout more dramatically and failed to win the support of a more conservative elite.
My appreciation of the present building is always tainted by a sense of loss, of what the great medieval St Paul's might have been had it survived, leaving a permanent gap in our legacy of great medieval cathedrals. We know the appearance of Old St Paul's from engravings and it was a remarkable building, the longest in the country, with a solid Romanesque nave and transepts (crowned by a gothic tower and formerly a soaring spire too) and a splendid Gothic choir culminating in a huge rose-window, and the home of many important tombs and monuments which have almost all been lost. However owing to Civil War damage and neglect, the building was in very bad shape in the years immediately before the Great Fire and had already undergone major alterations in classical/Baroque style with Wren proposing far more radical changes, so had there been no Great Fire we still likely would not have had the complete medieval church but some sort of strange Baroque/Gothic hybrid, and Wren would still have had his dome crowning it.
Like many major London attractions the cathedral now charges fees which discourage lower income visitors and bans photography within its walls. Happily however some evening events have been held during August 2017 where photographers were allowed free reign (full access to cathedral and crypt though not the dome galleries), thus I bought a ticket and had my first look around inside for many years......
A few abstracts I experimented with at the sun died. I noticed the still water with just a few shimmery ripples and thought they looked very dreamy.
Beethoven Symphonies Abstracted: Mo Willems Exhibit at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Hall of Nations at 2700 F Street, NW, Washington DC on Thursday afternoon, 27 January 2022 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Beethoven Symphonies Abstracted: Mo Willems Exhibit website at www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/mo-willems-beethoven-exhi...
Elvert Barnes Public Art 2022 at elvertxbarnes.com/public-art-2022
Trip to / from Washington DC for Catering at Kennedy Center
Elvert Barnes January 2022 at elvertxbarnes.com/january-2022
Former Studio Artist Jocelyn Foye, assistant Michelle and dancer Kelly Valignota rehearse Jocelyn's piece "Balley Abstracted" for the upcoming exhibition "Actions, Conversations and Intersections" at the Municipal Gallery of the City of Los Angeles. "Actions, Conversations and Intersections" is co-curated by former AGCC Studio Artist Edith Abeyta