I started a blog that started the whole blog-world crying. Boo Hoo! No, not really but for some reason people were confused in my last blogpost. Do ya think it was because my pictures didn't match my words? I mentioned that I created a PowerPoint presentation and instead of showing the contents of that PowerPoint presentation I put up some of my collages which I assumed no one would mistake for the kind of thing typically associated with PowerPoint. Apparently some readers took my collages for my PP presentation. And why not? They could have been. So the joke's on me.
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| La Grotte Chauvet, discovered in 1994. |
David Byrne has used PP for his own ironic take on corporate salesmanship so anything goes in PP. But no, my presentation was given at a big design firm in their cool modern office and I was there to let the designers know how my work could fit into their projects: boutique hotels and high end residential projects world wide. I also wanted to give them some background on the use of paintings (murals) in interiors so I used the idea behind my blog which suggests that every interior from caves to modernism (and beyond) is an appropriate setting.
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| La Grotte Chauvet, N 44° 21' and E 4° 29' 24". |
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| La Grotte Chauvet, c. 28,000–23,000 BP |
Just for a little shock value I included a picture of le Corbusier painting in the nude. I love this shot. He looks a bit confused, (as if he read my last post), and he's sporting that gorgeous scar from a shark bite or motor boat propeller. Which is it? And of course I showed some beautiful images of french cave paintings, as beautiful and mysterious as ever.
Now look how the ancient cave painting seems a kin to Corbu's mural. That just blows my mind. I mean the cave works are 17,000 years old. Oh well, they were discovered in 1940. It's quite possible Corbu saw them and referenced the memory. Btw the modern painting happens to be le Corbsuier's only mural in the U.S. It's at the (once) home of Ruth and Constantino Nivola in Springs. Corbu stayed there while working on the design of the U.N. headquarters in Manhattan.
Next: We'll go beyond!
I would have loved to have seen that presentation! In studying the photos of le Corbsuier's mural, I'm intrigued to see how he painted around and incorporated the door frame. The doorway becomes part of the mural, rather than a space cutting through it.
ReplyDeleteHi Mark,
ReplyDeleteYes me too in a way. I mean I wish I had a better sense of what my presentation was like to witness. Yes, the mural really works with the architecture which makes sense doesn't it?
Scott a fabulous Mural! I am excited to see more of his works! The image of him painting is priceless!
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Thanks Karena. Yeah, I think so too. I specifically use le Corbusier as an example because so many modernists are sure that murals have no place in their architecture.
ReplyDeleteRight on caveman! Hey, I did an essay once on cave paintings - in college. I got a big phat A+.
ReplyDeleteI'm giving you an A+, all the way around. Corbusier would too.
Thanks Sylvie!
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen any cave paintings in person but I have seen the petroglyphs at Lava Beds National Monument. It sort of gives you chills it so wondrous!
http://www.nps.gov/archive/labe/content/HISTORY_Rock.htm
Wow is all I can muster...
ReplyDeletejust over via A Perfect Gray. So glad she introduced you. YOu are amazing and have serious talent. I look forward to following you around :)
Thanks Therese!
ReplyDeleteWow is good and I am so glad you discovered me.
Scott forgot to mention.....
ReplyDeleteI have a Luxurious New Giveaway on my site....Do come and enter!!
Xoxo
Karena
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