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Workers of paint, camera, and stone Contemporary Artists Workers of paint, camera, and stone Thank you artcyclopedia.com

Artists Type your critiques on the answer sheet provided. The artists to be critiqued for this section include: Jacob Lawrence Ansel Adams Pepón Osorio Mel Chin Georgia O’keefe

PostModernist Architects Designers of spaces that speak to the Contemporary philosophy

As you view the architectural styles consider the following Name the characteristic of the Contemporary American Philosophy that each architect’s style reflects. Explain how the building or its materials reflects that characteristic. The style might . . . demonstrate the American ability to invigorates the old with the new celebrate cultural diversity depict a futuristic world (science fiction) Record your reflections on the Answer sheet

Architects Note that additional images of these architects’ works may be found at the links attached to their names on their pages. The architects presented in this overview include: Robert AM Stern I. M. Pei. Helmut Jahn Frank Gehry Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk Robert Venturi

Robert AM Stern A representative example of this design approach is Stern’s Observatory Hill Dining Hall (1982-1984) at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The dining hall combines red brick, white wood trim, and Tuscan Doric columns, referring to the adjoining buildings by Thomas Jefferson, but employs modern building forms and walls with large windows. http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/virginia/charlottesville/uvasterndine/frontdistant.jpg

I. M. Pei. His design for the East Wing of the National Gallery (1968-1978) in Washington, D.C., uses simple oblique masses that reflect the diagonals of Washington’s street plan. Pei clad the walls of the East Wing in the same marble used decades earlier for the National Gallery’s classical-revival main building, and he placed a large, glass-covered atrium at the East Wing’s center. http://www.algonet.se/~pwh/images/nationalgallery1.jpg

Helmut Jahn Jahn used large-scale forms of late modernism and emphasized and exploited the artistic effects of metal structural framing and colored glass sheathing. These interests are clearly apparent in his design for the United Airlines Terminal (1983-1987) at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/jahn/jahn10.jpg

Frank Gehry Gehry has enjoyed the playfulness deconstructivism allows. As the geometries of his buildings became more complex and he introduced compound curves, Gehry and his staff relied increasingly on computer-aided design, adapting software developed in France for aircraft design. http://www.culturageneral.net/arquitectura/arquitec/jpg/gugenbi.jpg

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk Individual houses and other buildings of Seaside reflected simple local building types adapted to the warm climate and thus not sealed and completely reliant on air conditioning. The architects wanted Seaside residents to be connected with one another and with the natural environment, rather than at the mercy of their machines. http://luciensteil.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/seasideroofs240.jpg Special emphasis was placed on enabling residents to walk about the town so that they did not have to rely on automobiles.

Robert Venturi Venturi’s humorous manipulations of classical forms are evident in the house he designed for his mother, the Vanna Venturi house (completed 1964) in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, especially in its references to a classical broken pediment and its incorporation of moldings across the facade. http://www.pritzkerprize.com/venturi/Img114.jpg

Harbingers with a Contemporary appeal Contemporary Music Harbingers with a Contemporary appeal Thank you wikipedia.com

As you view the websites of the following musical styles/institutions consider the following Name the characteristic of the Contemporary American Philosophy that each musical genre reflects. Explain how the building or its materials reflects that characteristic. The style might . . . demonstrate the American ability to invigorates the old with the new celebrate cultural diversity depict a futuristic world (science fiction) Record your reflections on the Answer sheet

Music Motown Protest Music British Invasion Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Grand ol’ Opry Please note that pictures and names are linked to different websites. Visit both if you have time.

Motown http://www.uky.edu/FineArts/Music/curr_stu/Nelson/mus222/motown.html

Protest Music www.thirdage.com/news/ protest/fry.html

British Invasion

Rock and Roll http://pupgg.princeton.edu/~groth/random_pics/nswed_30may98/nswed_30may98_rrh_01.jpg

Country Western Music http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/swandal/nama02/Opry_Stage_2.JPG