HISTORY OF ARTS AND INTERIOR DESIGN (POP ART TO FORMALISM)

Pop Art

Significant style to emerge in America inthe 60s whose popular imagery derived from commercial sources, the mass media and everyday life

Roy Lichtenstein

Started the art world in 1962 by exhibiting paintings based on comic book cartoons. Work: Blam!

Andy Warhol

A leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expressionm celebrity culture and advertisement. Work: Marilyn Monroe Diptych

Richard Hamilton

Work: Just what is iit that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?

Op Art

Optical Art. Recognizable object is totally eliminated in favor of geomteric abstraction, artists produce knetic effects arrangements of colors, lines and shapes, or some combination of these elements.

Post Modernism

A movement in architecture and decorative arts in reaction to the principles and practices of modernism, se of the elements from the historical vernacular styles and often playful illusion, decoration and complexity

Roberto Venturi

Published the manifesto Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. Works: Vanna Venturi House

"Less is a bore"

Robert Venturi

Michael Graves

Developed a wide-ranging electicism, generates an ironic, vision of Classicism in which his building have become classical in their mass and order. Work: Public Services Building

I.M. Pei

Pritzker Prize-winning Chinese-born American architect, known as the last master of high modernist architecture. Works: La Louvre, Bank of China Tower, HSBC Building

Philip Johnson

Brought Van Der Rohe to the States and introduced New Yrok to the Modern Style. Work: AT&T Building which resembling a giant Chippendale cabinet witha broken pediment

High Tech

A style that goals to liberate the maximum volume of space inside by positioning all its working elements outside the interior envelope. AKA Structural Expressionism

Norman Foster

Shows an uncompassing exploration of technological innovations and forms. Emphasize the repetition of industrialized "modular" units in which prefabricated off-site manufactured elements are frequently emplyed

Richard Rogers

Interest in uninterrupted interior spaces, conern with total flexibility and obvious techincal imagery

Renzo Piano

Investigated the world of machine and the properties of timber, brick and plywood

Pompidou Center

By Richard Rogers, first High Tech monument, external positioning of the building's color-coded service elements maximizes the uninterrupted floor space within

Jean Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center

By Renzo PIano, curve structureds made of glass

Brutalism

A movement in architecture emphasizing the aesthetic use of basic building processes, cast-in-place concrete, no apparent concern for visual amenity

Beton Brut

"Rough Concrete," leave concrete unfinished, don't use such to cover

Expressionism

From the work of avant-garde artists and designers in Germany. The works of Erich Mendelsohn

Regionalism

Avant-gardist, modernist approach but one that starts from the premises of local or regional architecture

The Sydney Opera House

By Jorn Utzon

Deconstructivism

Approach to buidling design that attemplts to view architecture in bits and pieces, borrowed from the French philosopher Jacuques Derrida

Formalism

Emphasizes form, interested in visual relationship between the building parts and the work as a whole. Lines and rigid geometric shapes predominate in Formalist architecture like the works of IM Pei