Rietveld Schröder House Essays

  • The Four Shuttlecocks

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    Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen found controversy when they began thinking about the creation of the art pieces in 1991. Many people believed that they were frivolous, so they disapproved the establishment of the art. Despite the major nonacceptance of the shuttlecocks in the early 1990’s, the enormous shuttlecocks are now valued at the museum. Some people even pronounce them to be a representation of Kansas City itself. These are giant sculptures mimicking real life shuttlecocks that are

  • Comparing The Modern Era Of Architecture And Interior Design

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    The modern era of architecture and interior design since the nineteenth century has often been an exciting expression. The contemporary designers were not only trying to break through traditions such as Rietveld 's Schroder House, but some also taking a leap back to the classical antiquity of style in the form of Empire Style was taken by Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine in Chateau de Malmaison. Although being very different in term of their contemporary cultural-socio-political state, to a certain

  • Cubism And Modern Architecture

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    approach to change and views of individuals. The movement wasn’t primarily architecture but also a new approach to art pieces and sculptures. An example of Cubism was by the architect Josef Chocol, who designed the Apartment House, Bohemia in 1913-1914. The apartment house resembles cubism because of the appearance of the structure as if alive. It’s designed to show movement and form. The building shows folds as abstract forming. The pediment and how its placed over the windows and doorways. He

  • J.J.P. Oud and Dutch Architecture

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    working mostly on residential projects In the projects of his early career, Oud was influenced mainly by Berlage's ideas of honesty in construction and Frank Lloyd Wright's use of floating planes and volumes. In 1917, he designed a duplex workers' house of reinforced concrete. He wished to move away from the restrictions of traditional brick construction, placing emphasis on definition of planes, monumentality, and a synthesis of theory and form. This project was never actually constructed, as Oud

  • De Stijl Research Paper

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    Aaron Begay Ms. Boni Ap Literature and Composition 11 December 2017 Art is defined as an expression of a human’s creativity that produces a work to be appreciated for their beauty and/or emotional impact. In the contemporary world in which we reside, it has been debated whether or not if abstract art is “art”. Among the list of the contemporary 20th-century art is a Dutch artistic movement called De Stijl or Neoplasticism. De Stijl is Dutch for “The Style”. Neoplasticism is an abstractionist and