Tuesday, December 13, 2005

frank owen gehry - born february 28, 1929.

  1. "he is an architect of immense gifts who dances on the line separating architecture from art but who manages never to let himself fall."
  2. "i approach each building as a sculptural object, a spatial container, a space with light and air, a response to context and appropriateness of feeling and spirit."
  3. "professes to be unsure of what is ugly and what is beautiful. it is irrelevant."
  4. "at the point where architecture and sculpture meet in anxious and uneasy confrontation."

9 Comments:

Blogger Elysha said...

hey i really like those...

13/12/05 11:01 PM  
Blogger Tala Azar said...

thats cool... im guessing you want to be an architect? the idea always pops up once in a while... i used to draw floor plans allllll the time. hmm... CHOICES CHOICES...

yeah, i like those toooo

14/12/05 9:48 AM  
Blogger kathleen said...

pretty sweet.

i like the first quote especially.

and you one day are going to design my house... "saving the world one house at a time" (starting with me)

14/12/05 4:33 PM  
Blogger tarajoy said...

yes im thinking about architecture (except now i have to take u math...ick). but reaeeeaally: im doing a project on frank gehry...and some of the stuff people write about him..or that he says is neat. donc, its here.
kathleen: haha. nice memory.

14/12/05 4:54 PM  
Blogger kathleen said...

are you doing him for french?

my memory amazes me sometimes. no wonder i forget my purse (and bible) everywhere...

"We perceive with the soul, we express with the body, and the soul would impress its own idealism on its perception. Realistic pictures then are no more art than stock reports or railroad timetables are poetry."
- J.E.H. MacDonald, The Relation of Poetry to Painting with Special Reference to Canadian Painting (1929 lecture).

14/12/05 6:21 PM  
Blogger tarajoy said...

"Realistic pictures then are no more art than stock reports or railroad timetables are poetry."

i disagree. but i /do/ like unrealistic art...etc. then there's room for interpretation.

14/12/05 6:26 PM  
Blogger kathleen said...

i disagree too. i just think it's interesting...

14/12/05 8:55 PM  
Blogger Andy said...

it's funny, though, because if i were an english teacher and a student handed in a train time table for a poetry assignment, i'd give them 100.

15/12/05 8:57 PM  
Blogger tarajoy said...

never be a grade school teacher andy. thats for sure.

16/12/05 4:37 PM  

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