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| | | | | Pablo Picasso's painting Guernica was commissioned by the Spanish government for the 1937 Paris World's Fair. It was exhibited in Josep Lluís Sert's Spanish Pavilion, alongside Joan Miró's The Reaper and other works. Completed in early summer 1937, the massive 11 × 25 foot painting addresses the devastating Fascist-era aerial bombing of the Basque town of Guernica on April 26, 1937. More broadly, the painting confronts the horrors of war. The current installation, which complements the Harvard course Wor... | |
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www.bauhaus-imaginista.org
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| | | | | Les Intégrations: Faraoui and Mazières. 1966-1982 // From the Time of Art to the Time of Life // Article // Oct. 18 2018 // Les Intégrations exemplified a specific conceptual motif, one that acted not within a single field but rather implied a relationship of interdependence between different media (visual arts and architecture) and techniques (those of graphic arts and architecture). They thus allowed for the emergence of disciplines that were not static in formation but evolving in relation to one another. The intermedial relationship they created between art and architecture raises the question of what lies "between" these disciplines: how do they communicate with each other? What are the elements of language common to this "spirit of the times," to the p... | |
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| | | | | Anni Albers and Ancient American Textiles // // Article // Jun. 7 2018 // At the time Anni Albers wrote On Weaving in 1965, few discussions of Andean textiles "as art" had appeared in weaving textbooks, but there were numerous publications, many of which were German books published between 1880 and 1929, that documented and described their visual and technical properties. Albers almost single-handedly introduced weaving students to this ancient textile art through her writing and her artistic work. | |
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theconversation.com
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| | | These celestial wonders can tell us a lot about the state of the atmosphere at home on Earth as well as on other planets. | ||
