After some meetings today I stopped by the library, Futo coffee in hand, and indulged in my favorite Architecture periodicals: Domus, Architectural Review and Harvard Design Magazine. An article on Surrealist Houses launched an expansive search on the Architecture of René Magritte; will share some of the findings here.
I've had Magritte (and collages) on my mind. Digital Manipulation on a photograph by Vijay Raghavendiran.
I am also thinking about watercolor these days: in both Freehand Drawing and Rendering and Delineation classes we are working with loose techniques. Here are some images that stopped me in my track during my quest.
Winter in Florence-La Pioggia- Watercolor and Ink. Professor George S. Loli, Dept. of Architecture, University of Louisiana-Lafayette.
Starry Night over the Rhone. Vincent Van Gogh. 1888.
![Desk Crit [The Importance of Sketching II]](https://sketchbloom.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/perspective-web.jpg?resize=200%2C200)
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I went to the museum of the “Quai d’Orsay” in Paris last week. There were exhibits of Van Gogh, Monet, Manet, Renoir… wish you were with me! I would love to go to an art museum with you so you can explain art to me Prof. Aiello! 🙂
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These are wonderful! Thank you for sharing them.
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surrealism transports the mind to new horizons….which everyday life rarely can access… the early houses of corbusier too were surreal with strange elements – which looked familiar but were distant and unknown,
the digital manipulation of the miti portrait conveys many meanings/possibilities – for architecture and films too… exciting stuff – fred
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