"The building
and the site cannot be separated intellectually." ---Robert L. Sweeney on
R.M. Schindler
"Forget
the architectures of the world except as something good in their way and in their
time;
.
. . don't go into architecture to get a living unless you love it as a principle
at work." ---Frank Lloyd Wright
Principles
at work
Looking
deep into the visual structure of the aesthetic FIELD--the aestheticfigure|FIELD--to
discern the hidden and practical supraformalist architectonic form-space
lessons of Synthetic Cubism.
EMPTY
|
FULL: More
Lessons From Synthetic Cubism
1.
Synthetic Cubism illustrates this basic principle: form as space-definer versus
space-occupier. 2.
Viewed abstractly, Synthetic Cubist paintings represent an architectural world--a
world of plans and sections, walls and windows, forms and spaces ... dwellings
and landscapes.
In
1997 I delivered a paper at the annual meeting of the ACSA (Association of
Collegiate Schools of Architecture) called 7
Lessons of Painting for Architecture, in which I
briefly discussed the Synthetic Cubist painting Still Life with Guitar by
Juan Gris, 1917 (fig. 0.1, below), in terms of visual literacy.
I maintained, implicitly if not explicitly,
as in other articles, such as
Formalism: Move | Meaning2,
that visual literacy with respect to the language of painting and architecture,
not unlike any other kind of language literacy (think natural languages like French,
Russian, Chinese), requires special knowledge of an otherwise meaningless world.
Otherwise it will always be a case of "it's Greek to me." "Eyes
that are blind," is the way Le Corbusier put it. As with ear-training
in the study of music, rigorous "eye-training," which is ultimately
what visual literacy requires, is self-evidently crucial to the study of architecture
and painting and to the development of aesthetic chops in all things visual.
I've continued to
look at this Juan Gris painting since writing that article, And I'd like to discuss
several new discoveries here. Think of it as an ongoing attempt to undo visual
illiteracy--my own as much as anyone else's.
0.1.
Still Life with Guitar, Juan Gris, 1917; Oil on canvas (28.25 x 36.25
in.)
0.2.
Chess Moves, jef7rey HILDNER, 1996; Pasted paper on paper (9 x 6 in.)
0.3.
The Poet, Pablo Picasso, 1911; Oil on canvas
Navigating
a visual labyrinth
At first
glance, even subsequent glances, the Gris painting is a visual labyrinth, a swirl
of confusion. An enigma. Obstructive and off-putting--resisting translation more
than inviting it. Unless, that is, one has a Theseus-like Ariadne thread that
will allow you to enter the labyrinth, slay the Minotaur of confusion, and get
out safely--empowered with a practical knowledge that will make the next labyrinth
less forbidding. Unless, that is, one has a secret code-book of understanding
for decoding the "text.". Although there are countless ways to
"read" this painting, the reading that I've discovered is uniquely powerful
and practical. I discovered it after many years of studying more elementary related
exercises by Picasso and Braque, as I will explain, and looking for their practical
application to my practice and teaching of architecture and painting.
For
starters, compare the Gris to my Chess Moves collage (fig. 0.2, above)
(I juxtapose them by way of a visual forward to the online version of 7 Lessons of Painting
for Architecture).
The
Gris is, after all---and this is crucial to understand---a painted "collage."
It was produced five years after the amazing miracle year, 1912, when Braque
and Picasso invented collage (French for "gluing"). A Synthetic
Cubist still life, it rebuilds the infrastructure of the canvas in ways
that approximate the complexity/density/difficulty of the paintings that
mark the highpoint of Analytical Cubism in 1911, such as Picasso's The Poet
(fig. 0.3, above).
My
collage is structured not unlike the Gris with respect to the horizontal sub-partitioning
of the field via the device of "split screen." (see "Deep
Space/Shallow Space" by Thomas Schumacher; Architectural Review, January
1987, Volume CLXXXI, No. 1079, pp. 37-42). In both, at the approx. 2/3 point from
the left, a vertical fault-line both separates and interconnects the deep
space (left) from/to the shallow space (right) within the visual field.
And while other aspects of structure are different in mine, both works share a
proclivity for density in the middle. (Both have a dense jam-packed center.) Though
mine has greater peripheral concentration (i.e., intensified activity at
the edges due to greater centrifugal tension), while the Gris has a very
real pyramidal pileup around the circle-in-the-square at the horizontal center
of the painting, both could use a few pointers about the benefits of decongestion
and rest. In other words, both are far from empty. Both are, almost bewilderingly,
full.
LESSON 1 Negative
Edge |
Empty Center
But
before tackling that theme head-on, let me please warm to my theme and ask you
to first consider what one of the basic differences is between my collage and
the Gris. Let's call this difference lesson 1.
1.1.
Chess Moves, detail of top edge, jef7rey HILDNER, 1996; Pasted paper
on paper (9 x 6 in.)
1.2.
Still Life with Guitar, detail of bottom edge, Juan Gris, 1917; Oil
on canvas (28.25 x 36.25 in.)
Look
at the edges of the visual field. The boundary-line. For example, compare
the top periphery of my collage (fig. 1.1, above) to the bottom periphery of the
Gris (fig. 1.2, above). In one (Gris), the world of the art work is isolated from
the world outside its frame. In the other (mine), the two worlds are interconnected.
In other words, the white space of the larger field in which my collage sits here
on this page flows into it and vice versa. The figure of the collage and
the field in which it sits are thereby, by virtue of the negative edge,
interlocked. And this property is what makes the collage contingent,
or circumstantial. Unlike the Gris, which is a pure rectangle, its interior
shut off from what we could call the larger site because of its world-bounding
frame, my collage is co-dependent with the surrounding "landscape"
or "site." You could think of it like a piece of a jig-saw puzzle.
It isn't an autonomous entity. It's responsive to and dependent on adjacent relationships
of the larger field and the irregular, idiosyncratic edge they mutually
define.
Negative
edges were important in the 1919 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Which you can see when stills are viwed on a black field, the visual situation
in a dark theater.
Negative
edges were also important to Mies van der Rohe at the 1929Barcelona
Pavilion (figs. 1.3 & 1.4, below), though, ironically, he by-and-large
used idealized rectangular elements (roofs and walls) to achieve this end.
1.3.
Barcelona Pavilion, aerial photo, Mies van der Rohe, 1929
1.4.
Barcelona Pavilion, plan, Mies van der Rohe, 1929
1.5.
Rhythms of a Russian Dance, Theo van Doesburg, 1917; Oil on canvas
You
might even say that negative edges were important to Theo van Doesburg in his
1918Rhythms of a Russian Dance (fig. 1.5, above); if, that is,
we see the boundary less literally (more phenomenally), and think of the
white paint as an optical simulation of a physical erosion/deformation of the
periphery. (The off-white mid-section at the bottom edge of the Gris (fig. 1.2,
above) could also be read this way, as could another Gris, Chessboard,
1917 (fig. 4.2 below.) In other words, the physical edges of the canvas, its contours
and shape, have not, like my collage, been altered by van Doesburg and Gris. But
when viewed on a white field such as here, the white paint of the canvas and the
white emptiness of the surrounding world-field merge into a dependent,
interlocked structure.
There's
another important lesson to be learned by comparing Mies's plan and the van Doesburg.
In addition to their obvious affinity with respect to an aesthetic of rhythmic
S, M, L, and XL linear elements that dance across their elongated, fundamentally
rectangular fields, they differ as to an attitude towards the center. While they
may share, to a degree, the property of negative edge, and while in each the S,
M, L, XL empty (void) spaces that the structure of (solid) wall-like elements
creates is just as important as the space-defining elements themselves,
the van Doesburg presents a closed center while the Mies presents an open
center. The forces of the van Doesburg are compressive, resulting in
a constricted center more full of solid objects than empty space. The forces
of the Mies, in which horizontal elongation and parallel-wall diagonality
are intensified, are expansive. Empty space is primary. Solid linear elements
are secondary. The van Doesburg, in which this primary/secondary relationship
is reversed, seems to close down at the center, dominated as it is by the pinwheel
structure of four almost intersecting long walls.
The
polarity represented by these two form-space structures could be simply
expressed this way: The center of the van Doesburg is full. The center
of the Mies is empty. Moreover, the "center" of the Mies is more
complex. Its center is not only at the spatially relaxed geometric mid-point of
its implied rectangular frame. Its center is also the XL (empty) outdoor room
that comprises the left half of the composition. On the one hand, in plan 97%
of the field reads as empty--and it is: This is the feeling you have when you
walk through the project (I visited last year: see article).
On the other, the aerial photo shows that the relationship between the empty-full
components of this sublime courtyard project is very beautifully divided between
outside/inside space along a 70/30 split (70% empty/30% full). And it isn't
that there's no roof over the outside space. It's simply that it's a negative
roof. An atmospheric roof. A celestial flat plane. And whether you think of
it as coplanar with the two solid roofs, or as vertically displaced up (infinitely)
towards the heavens, the shape of this empty, negative roof is figurally codependent
and interlocked with the adjacent full-elements of the larger field.
LESSON 2
Cut Figure |
Contingent Field
Let's
call them Cut Figures. That's what negative edges are. Jig-saw puzzle pieces
in a larger, contingent figure|FIELD
structure. This is the architectonic form-inventive, space-defining
spirit that infuses the meta fact-world research of Picasso and Braque,
and then Gris, after 1911.
2.01.Still life with a violin, Braque, 1912; [rotated 90 degrees CW]
2.02.Bottle of Vieux Marc, Glass, Guitar and Newspaper, Picasso, 1913; Pasted
paper and ink on paper (18.5 x 25 in.)
2.03.
The Violin, Juan Gris, 1916; Oil on canvas [rotated 90 degrees CCW]
Interlocked
Cut Figures are at the heart of the construction of many of my paintings,
drawings, and buildings.
Various
works, jef7rey HILDNER, 1996-2000
[click to enlarge]
Always
in tension with the suggestion or actual assertion of pure rectangular figures
and fields (as in the Barcelona Pavilion), Interlocked Cut Figures are
one way to give expression to the idea that architecture (or any visual structure)
is not an autonomous enterprise but a fragment of a larger whole. A way
of giving form to, as Meyer Schapiro put it, a "conception of the world as
law-bound in the relation of simple elementary components, yet open, unbounded,
and contingent as a whole."
2.04.
The Breakfast Table, Juan Gris, 1915; Oil on canvas (36.25 x 28.25 in.)
2.05.
SpaceWarp,
jef7rey HILDNER, 2000; Digital Model
I
haven't, as in my paper collage, reshaped the physical edges/boundaries of my
canvases (yet). So in this way they function more like the Gris---ideal, autonomous
rectangular fields. But I'm exploring the lessons of Negative Edges and Cut Figures
within the interior of the paintings (and with greater freedom along the periphery
in the 3D Modeling of buildings, as in fig. 2.05 above), This 1996 elevation,
for example (2.06 below), by my UVA graduate student Patrick Magness was designed
in accord with these principles.
2.06.
Manhattan Jazz Museum (North Elevation), Patrick Magness (Studio Critic: jef7rey
HILDNER), 1996; Ink on mylar (72 x 24 in.)
And
in this way, too, most significantly, these works are also like the "Still
life with Guitar" by Gris. Here's what I mean.
Positive-Negative Spatial Moves
I've explained
in other articles, including Transfiguring,
that I learned how to think about highly articulated contingent interlocked
cut-figure space-defining forms of the aesthetic field this way by studying
the works of Synthetic Cubism. In addition to the 3 works by Braque, Picasso,
and Gris shown above (figs. 2.01, 2.02, 2.03, above), I learned lessons from the
very first pasted-paper collage, Braque's 1912 Fruit Dish and Glass, which
I've written about in Collage Reading: Braque
|
Picasso(1996)---and, for example, from a subsequent pasted-paper collage, Violin,
by Picasso, who obviously learned a thing or two from Braque in this regard.
2.07. Fruit Dish and Glass, George Braque, 1912; Pasted paper and
charcoal on paper (31.5 x 17.5 in.)
2.08.Violin, Pablo Picasso, 1912; Pasted paper and charcoal on paper
2.09.Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Pablo Picasso, 1907; Oil on canvas
2.10. Knight's Move _NYT: cut, separate, slide, jef7rey HILDNER, 1997;
Pasted paper, pencil and gouache on paper (9 x 6 in.)
2.11.Maison Curutchet (Section), Le Corbusier, 1949
2.12.Gulf of Marseilles, Paul Cézanne,
1885; Oil on canvas
Braque's
landmark project (fig. 2.07, above) sets the stage for deploying contingent forms
as peripheral space-defining fragments of an empty center. The Picasso
collage (fig. 2.08, above), which defines a more compressive empty center, is
especially easy to read in terms of positive-negative reciprocal forms.
Here's what I wrote about it in an article called Rooks
Moveabout Bernard Tschumi's Student Center at Columbia University: "Picasso's
Violin illustrates the simple device-sequence underlying what
I call the Knight's Move---that is, figural diagonal displacement
. Here, the two dark sepia shapes of text, idiosyncratic and contingent, are not
only intercut and therefore codependent with the void of the
white space around them (or, is the white space solid and the dark shapes void?),
but they are also clearly intercontingent relative to each other:
Imagine them as originally conjoined in the upper right corner, then cut apart
and diagonally separated. The sequence of moves/devices Picasso
implicitly employed is actually susceptible to even finer analysis by simply retracing
the sequence in reverse and reuniting the two shapes or "chess pieces."
For example, move the lower piece (the "knight") as follows: flip horizontally,
slide up, move right, join. The original move, then, comprises four elementary
devices in reverse: cut, slide, shift, flip." In
PICASSO
LESSONS: The Sixth Woman of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon,
I pointed out how the origins of Picasso's moves in this 1912 collage and subsequent
Synthetic Cubist experiments---in which the conscious calculation of reciprocal
spatial-forms create powerful empty-full constructions---can be seen in his 1907
blockbuster (fig. 2.09, above).
My pasted-paper collage Knight's
Move _NYT: cut, separate, slide (fig. 2.10, above) illustrates a similar,
simpler sequence of diagonal displacement, involving the solid (p
= positive) and the void (n = negative). A similar
diagonal-displacement move is made in this drawing (fig. 2.13, below) and
orthogonal-displacement move in this painting (fig. 2.14, below):
click to see full painting
2.13.
Piero Abstract_, jef7rey HILDNER, 1997; Pencil and gouache
That
Le Corbusier understood the figure/field lessons of collage is
clear in the section (as well as in the plan and elevation) of this house.
2.14. Maison
Curutchet, Le Corbusier, 1949; section
sketch & diagram by the author
Through
his negative-positive form making, Le Corbusier recomplicates
the volume and enriches the inside/outside relationships of the house. In this
50/50solid/void structure, the negative space
is as equally figural and important as the positive forms. "Thus here, as
in the pasted paper collages," I explain in Rooks
Move, "perhaps the most significant act is the creation of the
codependent space between, to which the rook's move is subservient. This
in-between "space" may be either a solid or a void (in Le Corbusier's
building it is a codependent void -- outside space; . . . ) and it may function
ambiguously as much as a field as a figure. Ultimately, it manifests the properties
of interconnection, such that, as with a jigsaw puzzle piece, it is simultaneously
autonomous and a dynamic, contingent fragment of a larger whole."
The Fountainhead
"If
only I were Cézanne,"
said Picasso. I think Le Corbusier would know what he meant. For sure enough,
it seems that for origins of the modern idea of interlocking abstract
Cut Figures in painting and architecture we can turn to the Father of Modern
Art. In this painting, Gulf of Marseilles,
Cezanne, 1985 (2.12 above &
diagrams below), land and sea are interlocked as reciprocal50/50 Cut
Figures. It's an example of the radical manifesto expressed by Maurice Denis
in 1890 that "a picture, before it is a warhorse, a naked woman, or some
anecdote, is essentially a flat surface covered by colors assembled in a certain
order."
2.15. Gulf
of Marseilles, Paul Cézanne, 1885; Oil on canvas
[Analytical diagrams by the author]
Similar
plastic thinking is at work in the visual organization of Le Corbusier's
Villla Shodhan:
2.16.
Villla Shodhan, 1956: photograph; (left, top); elevation sketches
(middle and right, top); diagrams,and excerpts/reconstitutions of Cézanne fragments
(middle and bottom bands) by the author
Rudolph
Schindler had a similar mind-set:
2.17.
Mackey Housee, 1939: view of front elevation, Rudolph Schindler,
(1939)
2.18.
Fitzpatrick House, 1937-38: view of the living room (stretched by the
author)
Other systems
E
+ phenomenal transparency
On the other hand, here's
an example, from my article Rooks
Move, in which I discuss the
difference between literal and phenomenal collage, where these principles
are notemployed:
2.19. Lerner
Hall, Columbia University, New York City, view of north facade (photo
by the author), Bernard Tschumi, 1999
My
diagram (below, left) shows that the basic organizing system of this three-part
side-by-side building involves formal and material autonomy as opposed
to figural contingency. The other two diagrams show how the building
might be reorganized if the principles I've been discussing, involving positive-negative
Cut-Figure codependence, were employed.
2.20.
Analytical diagram by the
author of the non-Cut-Figure organizing principles of this project. Instead, the
building is organized on the basis of Figural autonomy
and centripetal containment (a trapped/book-ended center); it features side-by-side
abutment of autonomous forms + isolated center tilting; 1. Short masonry
mass; 2. Glass mass (enclosed ramps); 3. Tall
masonry mass [Analytical
diagram by the author]
2.21
& 2.22. Analytical
diagrams by the author of ALTERNATIVE STRATEGY:
It features figural contingency and centrifugal expansion (a codependent "space
between"); displacement, figure/field interlock + interwoven extended/peripheral
tilting; MOVES
= cut, separate/slide, pull through and wrap/fold the (left) corner
1.
Rook Fragment; 2. Codependent Space Between; 3.
Rook
[Analytical diagrams by the author]
Shadowing Gris
The
Cézannesque organizing principle of interlocking Cut Figures was crucial
to the researches of Juan Gris. My unique take on his Synthetic Cubist paintings,
as well as those of Braque and Picasso, has helped me unlock the deep content
of their complex space-form structure. This has enabled me, in turn,
to develop a set of practical principles for analyzing and developing visual organizations,
such as the Tschumi building above. Look how these principles are at work in Gris's
1917 "Guitar with still life," as seen in what I call the Cut-Figure
Shadow image of the guitar player (Guitar Man) in profile.
2.23
---2.29.
Deconstruction of Still Life with Guitar: Guitar Man,
by jef7rey HILDNER with Trey Cook
These
diagrams also identify the complimentary form of the interlocking female figure
(as my Arlington graduate student Trey Cook has pointed out), who appears to be
reclining mermaid-like on her stomach, face forward, legs extended diagonally
into the z-axial distance to the left, as if she is resting comfortably on a sofa
or daybed listening to the music. Thus, Guitar Man and Woman Listener
are locked together along the principle vertical zigzag fault line of the
painting--together, rather marvelously, they also define the shallow-space (right
side/Him) and deep-space (left side/Her) of the painting,
2.30.
Deconstruction of Still Life with Guitar: Guitar Man & Woman Listener,
by jef7rey HILDNER with Try Cook
Moreover,
when the male and female shapes are merged, additional interlocking solid-void
readings appear (figs. 2.30 & 2.31). Ultimately, they may be seen as creating
a powerful, circumstantially figural space between --- understandable as
either plan or section (for example, imagine the white space as the entry
hall to a building). I write about this phenomenon in my article on Picasso's
1907 Demoiselles. (see
PICASSO
LESSONS: The Sixth Woman of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon).
2.31
& 2.32. Deconstruction of Still Life with Guitar: Guitar Man & Woman Listener,
by jef7rey HILDNER with Try
Cook
2.33.
Deconstruction of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon,
by jef7rey HILDNER
LESSON 3
Visual Archeology: Mapping Deep Void-Solid
Structures
This
is a good threshold for looking deeper into the Gris---and seeing that it is far
more empty than it at first appears. These lessons in turn, together with the
basic instruction on Negative Space that I describe in a related article
called Significant
Space, will then enable you to deconstruct a painting such as Picasso's
1921Three Musicians and see it anew.
3.0. Three
Musicians, Pablo Picasso, 1921; Oil on canvas (67 x 73.25 in.)
By
these principles we can reveal its visual substructure, which is simultaneously
complex and simple, defamiliar and dense---but beautifully lucid.
Moreover,
these principles underscore the basis on which I differentiated between what I
call literal collage and phenomenal collage in Rooks Move.
In a nutshell, Literal Collage
is a device that essentially involves the juxtaposition of physical material;
whereas Phenomenal Collage
is a device that essentially involves the ambiguity & reciprocity
of figure/field. positive form and equally figural negative space---the
moves and counter-moves of empty|full.
Look
first at this free-hand pencil drawing. It maps the white space-defining fragments
of the Gris.
3.1:
Deconstruction of Still Life with Guitar: White, by the author, 1997
3.2:
Still Life with Guitar, Juan Gris, 1917; Oil on canvas (28.25 x 36.25
in.)
. . . by which
we see that if the white fragments are the solid (full), then the rest of the
painting is rather generously void (empty). It is at once a map---a plan
of a building and contiguous gardens/outdoor spaces. And a window---a building
section that encloses interior space and frames the landscape beyond. In both
cases (plan and section), the turbulence of negative edges, the cut-figure interlock
of idiosyncratic figural voids and figural solids, the infrastructure of
localized centers within a matrix of forces that are enigmatically counterbalanced
between the centripetal and centrifugal, reinforce the obvious circumstantiality
of the enterprise. It is plastic and expressive. Unbounded. Free. Original.
Mapping
other component sub-systems of the painting (ochre, ochre & black, and green)
reveals more of the underlying complex composition of Gris's remarkably literate,
advanced form-space project.
3.3:
Deconstruction of Still Life with Guitar: Ochre, by the author, 1997
3.4:
Deconstruction of Still Life with Guitar: Ochre & Black, by the author,
1997
3.5:
Deconstruction of Still Life with Guitar: Green-- inverted, by the author,
1997
Layer upon layer,
Gris has constructed a profound archeology, He interlaces the components
of the painting through the deployment of a sophisticated, complex music-like
structure that echoes the narrative theme. Guitar with still life? How about
frozen music. Like jazz, rigorous and relaxed, this painting writes out the chord
structure, the rhythms and the melodic line, for the instruments of an avant-garde
visual jazz septet.
The
following diagrams, completed with the assistance of my graduate student Trey
Crook at Arlington, take the project even farther. The wonders of digital technology
(Adobe Photoshop) allow us to overlay various subsystems. There are over 1000
permutations, so the ones shown here only hint at the complex and rich
Void|Solid
structure of this painting,
which is far deeper than you could ever at first imagine. These diagrams isolate
ochre, white, and black; then combine black and ochre; black and white; black,
white, and ochre.
3.6 - 3.11.
Deconstruction of Still Life with Guitar: Isolations/Combinations of Black, White,
Ochre, by jef7rey HILDNER
with Trey Cook
The
empty|full
properties are especially clear and architectural (read as both plan and section)
when the green fragments, which are gray-scaled, are isolated and stretched
(fig. 3.12, below; see also 3.5 above). Satisfyingly, the forces are now more
centrifugal than centripetal. Fig. 3.13 shows a gray-scaled diagram of
the green and black fragments combined. The bottom diagram shows how morphing
opens up many more possibilities for research: the black fragments (not including
the photo-album like top corners) are inverted, stretched, vertically
compressed.
3.12
- 3.14. Deconstruction of Still Life with Guitar: Isolations/Combinations of Black
& Green (Gray-scaled & Stretched),
by jef7rey HILDNER with Trey Cook
In
other words, take the black fragments (fig. 3.6, above), erase the chamfered top
corners and the circle/column in the center, stretch them, vertically compress
them, vertically and horizontally flip them--and here's what you get (fig. 3.15,
below): Abstract Linear Empty|Full
Asymmetrical Centrifugal Tensions (ALEFACT) of an architectural Plan,
Section, and/or Elevation. I am using reconfigurations/transfigurations
such as this as the basis of my current design work. This is how Synthetic
Cubism is practical in architectural design, graphic design, painting, and visual
criticism for me today.
3.15
(below). Deconstruction of Still Life with Guitar: Black morphed,
by Jeffrey Hildner with Trey Cook
LESSON
4 Empty|Full
Deconstructions: Space-Defining
Forms ... extended
Here
is a deconstructive look at other visual structures as seen through the Synthetic
Cubist Empty|Full
lens of my 2001 Arlington theory-seminar students:
4.1.
The Musician, Georges Braque,
1917-1918; Oil on canvas (86.75 x 44.375 in.)
4.6.
The Breakfast Table, Juan
Gris, 1915; Oil on canvas (36.25 x 28.25 in.]
4.7.
Three
Musicians, Pablo Picasso, 1921; Oil on canvas (67 x 73.25 in.)
4.8.
Une Petite Maison Mother's
House, Lake of Geneva, Switzerland, Le Corbusier, 1923--24
See
also PICASSO
LESSONS: The Sixth Woman of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Which
underscores the essence of Significant Space: the product of a design in which
FORM functions not only as SPACE-OCCUPIER, but also as SPACE-DEFINER. MADISON
GRAY |
_11.01.2001