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Times Square is an amazing place to watch the human animal in one of its favourite habitats - with lots more of them around. The variety of nationalities and cultures is rich indeed, creating a wildly varying weave of colours, codes of dress, body language, accent, idiom and nuance. Here is the 21st Century village square, the market at the core of the traditional city or town, the world over.
Forms, styles and details may change but this is the social human animal still gathering in groups while both loving it and hating it all the same.
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Music Link: "Voiceprint" ( edit ) - Jon Hassell, from his album "City: Works of Fiction". The re-release of the classic 90's album comes with a previously unreleased live set done in New York City and a collection of edits and remixes of the original tracks by various artists. This is a mash-up if one of those. Hassell is no stranger to digital culture and in fact, he's one of its most eloquent proponents.
Here the Latin rhythms and Hip Hop vocals combine with digital film footage and effects to produce a boldly contemporary "folk art" of an urban 21st Century.
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Naturally any staircase is a sort of machine to climb up or to descend, but in the best Beaux Arts interpretation it is a display, it is a dance; and it certainly enriches the conception of human surroundings and the body if architecture can bring in everyday experience a sort of ballet-like quality—semi-poetic choice—in what otherwise is a purely utilitarian conception… the purpose is not only to climb up and down—it is also to enjoy it in a sort of organic way. Lubetkin
Grade II* listed. Block of 130 flats and maisonettes. First scheme designed 1946, present design from 1949 onwards, built 1951-4, by Skinner, Bailey and Lubetkin.
Bevin Court was the last of three schemes by Skinner, Bailey and Lubetkin for Finsbury Metropolitan Borough, where they had first been commissioned to design new housing in 1937. It replaced bombed housing in Holford Square, and Lubetkin was particularly interested in the fact that it had been home in 1902-3 to Lenin with whose ideals he had strong sympathies.The final irony came with a demand to re-christen the block after Britain's first foreign secretary of the Cold War; Francis Skinner commented that they only had to redesign two letters of the sign.
The staircase is his most idiosyncratic post-war achievement. Of all his work it best demonstrates his belief that, 'a staircase is a dance'. It betrays Lubetkin's background in Russian Constructivism, in the work of Melnikov and Leonidov, but can be seen too as a piece of Baroque geometry given the added power of concrete construction. Lubetkin was fascinated by the geometry of what he called the 'baroque' squares of the area, and this was a personal response to what was in fact Georgian town planning.
The stairs were painted this marvellous shade of red in 2014, which was the original colour, prior to that it was white.
Used as a location in Esio Trot & The Little Drummer Girl.
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A "tumbled" image of a statue of Perseus holding up the head of Medusa at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
After a visit to the wonderful rooftop terrace we spent some time viewing a few of the wings of the museum in the last hour before it closed. We came upon this large, long, very tall room with these wonderful Classical statues in them. It was fortuitous that it was evening and the West window to this particular gallery let in the most beautiful evening light. The way if fell on this statue made it too hard to resist photographing.
The bright Perseus, holding up the dark head of Medusa, an embodiment of evil, against the dark background seemed a beautiful metaphor to me of the very Greek triumph of Light over Dark.
The 'multiplication' of Perseus and his presence in several frames of time and space suggests a certain 'persistence' of the metaphor of Light over Dark, of Plato's "Beauty" as proportioned out in the geometries of Classical Greek sculpture.
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From the south garden of The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, near Harlem. In this garden is one of the strangest sculptures I think I've ever seen. There's very little information posted at the site and one has to go to a cafe across the street from the Cathedral to buy a book on the Cathedral to find anything out about it. It's such an OLD thing, the book, that it looks like it was printed in the early 60's and has never been updated. And then there's always Wikipedia ....
The fountain was installed in 1985 and was created by Sculptor in Residence, Greg Wyatt. It's a religious depiction of the struggle between St. Michael and Satan, which in broader terms simply means the battle of good and evil or ... light and dark.
Although the Cathedral is clearly Christian, Episcopalian to be exact, the circle around the Fountain is fascinating for it's depiction of figures such as Socrates, Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi and John Lennon. The lyrics to Lennon's "Imagine" are also posted there.
That statue itself is a VERY Surrealistic mix of various sea and forest creatures with Archangel Michael doing battle with churning mass below him. Consciousness versus the Subconscious?
I chose to call these images taken at the Cathedral "Postcards from the Divine" as a pun on it's location, the spiritual content of the imagery and because this initial image, when it was completed, reminded me of old, colourized post cards.
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Music Link: "Jane Seymour" - Rick Wakeman, from his album, "The Six Wives of Henry VIII".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aXJP-Bg4Hw
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Koljadka vom Mädchen und vom Pfau (1916)
Petro Kholodnyi | Petro Cholodnyj (1876 -1930)
Tempera on wood
National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
Currently in the exhibition "In the Eye of the Storm. Modernism in Ukraine" in the Lower Belvedere in Vienna
"This comprehensive exhibition is the first presentation outside Ukraine to explore the development of modern art in the cultural centers of Kyiv, Lviv and Kharkiv during the first half of the 20th century. Modernism in Ukraine is revealed to be both international and avant-garde. From Jugendstil to Constructivism, the exhibition tells the tempestuous and fascinating history of cultural identity in Ukraine." www.belvedere.at/en/eye-storm
tring Quartet No 8, in C Minor, Op. 110 Dimtri Shostakovich
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"Gold" Building
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Category: Blocks
Period: înc. sec. XX, 1934
Importance: B
LMI code: B-II-m-B-18209
Address: Bd. Botev Hristo 34 sector 3
Location: municipiul BUCUREŞTI
District: Bucuresti
Region: Muntenia
Imobilul Solly Gold
Blocul "Gold"
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Categorie: Blocuri/imobile
Perioada: înc. sec. XX, 1934
Importanta: B
Cod LMI: B-II-m-B-18209
Adresa: Bd. Botev Hristo 34 sector 3
Localitate: municipiul BUCUREŞTI
Judet: Bucuresti
Regiune: Muntenia
architect Marcel Janco
arhitect Marcel Iancu
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Marcel Janco
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Marcel Iancu
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Marcel Hermann Iancu
Born: May 24, 1895; Bucharest, Romania
Died: April 21, 1984; Israel
Nationality: Jewish, Romanian, Israeli
Art Movement: Dada, Constructivism
Marcel Janco’s Contribution to Modern Architecture in Romania
Professor Dr. Ana-Maria Zahariade, Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism (UAUIM), Bucharest
Major headache. For Illustrator wonks.... I did a blend maneuver by mistake that Illustrator did not like and the original file could only be opened as a PDF, saved, then opened as an Illustrator file. So it was a mess. I pulled it together and called it done. This took me too long to figure out and fix. A lot of time lost in my life!
Although at the time I was taking these Times Square shots it never occurred to me until later that they seem to connect in an interesting way to the Renaissance landscape/scenery work of Albrecht Altdorfer and Hieronymus Bosch with their broad scope and rich supply of people rendered small compared to the larger scene. Only there's not an epic war going on and the delights of this garden are much less grotesque ( by comparison ).
A 21st century take on the Renaissance "market square" or country village? ... Perhaps.
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Music Link: "New York City", Miroslav Vitous. Probably Vitous' defining piece, "New York City" is this jazz great's interpretation of upbeat side of Manhattan. The piece is interestingly considered to border on the more electronic music of the 90's with it's constant pulse and clever studio effects on the incidental vocals. For some of the 90's electronica artists, "New York City" was noted as a prime influence on their musical development.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J29-w9O-q-I
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tring Quartet No 8, in C Minor, Op. 110 Dimtri Shostakovich
.
"Gold" Building
www.monumenteromania.ro/index.php/monumente/detalii/en/Go...
Category: Blocks
Period: înc. sec. XX, 1934
Importance: B
LMI code: B-II-m-B-18209
Address: Bd. Botev Hristo 34 sector 3
Location: municipiul BUCUREŞTI
District: Bucuresti
Region: Muntenia
Imobilul Solly Gold
Blocul "Gold"
www.monumenteromania.ro/index.php/monumente/detalii/ro/Bl...
viabucuresti.ro/pe-urmele-lui-marcel-iancu-prin-cartierul...
Categorie: Blocuri/imobile
Perioada: înc. sec. XX, 1934
Importanta: B
Cod LMI: B-II-m-B-18209
Adresa: Bd. Botev Hristo 34 sector 3
Localitate: municipiul BUCUREŞTI
Judet: Bucuresti
Regiune: Muntenia
architect Marcel Janco
arhitect Marcel Iancu
.
Marcel Janco
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Janco
Marcel Iancu
ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Iancu
Marcel Hermann Iancu
Born: May 24, 1895; Bucharest, Romania
Died: April 21, 1984; Israel
Nationality: Jewish, Romanian, Israeli
Art Movement: Dada, Constructivism
Marcel Janco’s Contribution to Modern Architecture in Romania
Professor Dr. Ana-Maria Zahariade, Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism (UAUIM), Bucharest
A blend of digital colouring and enhancement along with touches of sepia toning were used in this one to give a sense of the timelessness of Times Square, of the great span of its years in history. From the old New York of the Rockefellers, the Carnegies and the Mellons to Apple, iPhones and Instagram Times Square is probably one of the greatest indicators of the human pulse over the decades since it's initial construction.
Time, space and singularity of perception are broken up, or, made simultaneous with several others. As we approach the Quantum Age, non-singularity of view, simultaneity and indeed, non-locality will increasingly become our ways of seeing.
I took my inspiration for the colouring of this image from the work of Paul B0udreau, whose unique art always boggles my mind.
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Music Link: "Stratus", Billy Cobham. From his album "Spectrum". This is a live, tour de force piece of Jazz wizardry performed by Cobham and his band, featuring some strangely appropriate, brilliant steel drum playing by his percussionist. "Stratus" always felt to me like music for a BIG city.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdjDFW3IDaU
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The former Van Nelle Factory (Dutch: Van Nellefabriek) on the Schie river in Rotterdam, is an important historic industrial building in the world.
The buildings were designed by architect Leendert van der Vlugt from the Brinkman & Van der Vlugt office in cooperation with civil engineer J.G. Wiebenga, at that time a specialist for constructions in reinforced concrete, and built between 1925 and 1931. It is an example of Nieuwe Bouwen, modern architecture in the Netherlands.
In the 20th century it was a factory, processing coffee, tea and tobacco and later on additional chewing gum, cigarettes, instant pudding and rice. Currently it houses a wide variety of new media and design companies and is known as the Van Nelle Design Factory ("Van Nelle Ontwerpfabriek" in Dutch). Some of the areas are used for meetings, conventions and events.
The Van Nelle Factory shows the influence of Russian constructivism.
The Van Nelle Factory is a Dutch national monument (Rijksmonument) and is on the list of sites under consideration for the status of UNESCO World Heritage Site (Tentative list). The Justification of Outstanding Universal Value will be presented 2013 to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee.
In June 2014 it was added to the Unesco list of world heritage sites.
Submitted 17/10/2014
Accepted 10/11/2014
Władysław Strzemiński (1893–1952), Chair, ca. 1932.
At an exhibition in 2019 in Kunstmuseum The Hague NL.
More of Polish constructivists at:
johanphoto.blogspot.com/2020/05/een-poolse-avant-garde-co...
Visualization of the permutation series: Permutation 041 - hyperbolic paraboloid cube 2. Sculpture @monochromeandminimal by project:pietern
Music Link: "The Grid" - Philip Glass, from his score for the Godfrey Reggio film "Koyaanisqatsi". This is a very well done edit of the much longer piece which lasts almost 24 minutes. Here it is a mere 6:40, but more than enough to get the point across with hair-raising and mind blowing immediacy.
The word "koyaanisqatsi" is a Hopi word for "life out of balance". Reggio's 1983 film was the first of it's kind and a quantum leap in film making. The director started out with the very original idea to craft a film around real life footage from around the world, focusing first on the quiet solemnity and unhurried elegance of nature and then contrasting it very sharply indeed with the mad rush of human activity, perception and behaviour. The concept was to show just how literally insane the materialistic, consuming and destroying culture of the West is and that it is dangerously out of balance with the natural world.
Reggio believed modernized "First" world culture to be sick, as in not well, deep into its core for it's lost connection to the natural rhythms of nature. As its ever demanding maw grows and grows, it eats away at the planet like a cancer. He used the Hopi prophecies about this time as a way to guide the footage, which has no actors, no narration, no plots or story. Real life footage was carefully shot over years and assembled and synched to the music of Philip Glass, whose work Reggio chose for it's enormous power to reflect the themes he wanted to so viscerally display. The finished film footage and the music now are inseparable halves of a complete whole.
While a few other directors have taken on Reggio's very original and groundbreaking style and commercial TV has naturally copped his technique, the original "Koyaanisqatsi" still stands as the greatest film of its kind. Not so shocking and breathtaking now as it was back in 1983, the film still hits hard with dizzying accuracy. Yet at the heart of it all, Reggio's is not the voice of condemnation. He looks upon human beings as being caught in the snares of their own creation and feels compassion for them. A lesser mind would have moralized. Reggio does not.
I chose this piece as a natural accompaniment to Times Square imagery and because a lot of this segment IS shot in New York and indeed in Times Square. I think it musically reflects the unbelievable rush and chaos of the location, and the wider modern world, beautifully. This very hard to find video is the actual footage of the film to the accompaniment of its intended soundtrack.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwPDFeXEMs4
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Abstract composition using vector software. It was In the vocabulary of the building trade, stick built.
Back2School Reloaded: ExhibitionWork by »Orm«, spotted in former School-Building at night. – Late October 2013. Special thanks to ›Mr. Orm‹ for support.
For further information about this exceptional Exhibition, check this: vimeo.com/84318093
The Factory Kitchen (фабрика-кухня), by Ekaterina Maximova (1931). This structure was built in the shape of an hammer and sickle, the kitchen itself was located in the hammer and was connected to the canteen in the sickle through three hallways. Abandoned for several years, renovation works started after my visit (August 2016).
Samara, Russia.
© Roberto Conte (2016)
Visualization of my permutation series. Title is permutation 033 based on my YIN YANG Permutation some weaks ago. Next stepp, building the real object. Made 2018 by @monochromeandminimal by project:pietern.
Sourcing or "touch stoning" various 20th Century art movements such as Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism without subscribing entirely to any of them specifically. The common thread, perhaps, is a shared sensibility that 'reality' is not wholly approachable from any SINGLE point of view, that what we perceive is cobbled together by an "interpreting" brain working to make a sense-able world for us to navigate.
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Music Link: "Sex Goddess" - Jon Hassell and Bluescreen, from their album "Dressing For Pleasure". Speaking of multi-dimensionality and simultaneity of apparently disparate elements, trumpeter / avant garde artist Jon Hassell has made an incredible career out of taking several world music traditions and blending them with the technology of our industrialized world. "Fourth World" he calls it. What you end up with is something constructed from various elements that combine in Hassell's unique sonic alchemy to produce something quite beyond the sum of all his elements.
The choice of "Sex Goddess" as the musical link to this piece is a deliberate and ironic choice. I see mannequins as dubious approximations of human beings. They're especially regrettable for their role in literally and figuratively objectifying women with their physical being but also in being "decoys" for the drawing in of consumer "prey", most of whom in the fashion sense, of course, are women. So "Sex Goddess" is used here with tongue pushed firmly into cheek.
Here Hassell teams with Techno-Jazz-Funksters "Bluescreen" to blend his Fourth world creations with cutting edge digital jazz/funk. A heady mix.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hymu0veAt4U
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Photo of the permutation series. Title is "permutation 049" from monochromeandminimal by project:pietern. Size of the sculpture is 21 x 21 x 3 cm
Namibia, Namib Wüste, Namib-Naukluft-Park
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Die Namib ist mit einem Alter von rund 80 Millionen Jahren die älteste Wüste der Welt und zugleich einer der unwirtlichsten Orte des Planeten. Bei Tagestemperaturen deutlich über 50 °C, Nachttemperaturen von unter 0 °C, jahrzehntelang andauernden Trockenperioden sowie häufigen Sandstürmen sind Pflanzen und Tiere extremen Lebensbedingungen ausgesetzt.