Monday, April 27, 2009
My Architectural Inspiration for Assignment Two: Yad Vashan Holocaust History Museum by Moshide Safide
This building from an Canadian-Israeli architect, Moshide Safidie clearly gives some clever personalities which clearly relate to Edward Hopper's painting, "The Morning Sun". Safidie as we can see clearly deals with the emotional and depressing side of "The Morning Sun" painting, by the darkness and mysterious aspects of the building interior. When an individual goes inside the building, the individual feels as though they don't want to stay inside this kind of building due to its scary and depressing feel as they feel like they want to get out in a bright world. This buidling has given me some ideas of how I can deal with the personalities, the important aspects with Hopper's paintings and the materiality of the rooms.
Monday, April 20, 2009
About the Research for Assignment Two
With the research, I thought it would be best to head down to the COFA library to find out valuable information about the painting of "Morning Sun" as well as small background about the painter, Edward Hopper. What I found interesting about Hopper is that he uses ladies in interiors of a room. Hopper also uses relections of lighting to deal with emotions of the painting.
With the collated research, I started to refine the narrative for my assignment.Draft Narrative for Assignment Two
ROOMS FOR A WIDOW WHO WANTS TO KEEP MEMORIES OF HER PARTNER WHO HAD PASSED AWAY FROM A TRAGIC INCIDENT.
Explanation of Assignment One
As you know, me and my partner Deepika are working on Geoffery Bawa's villa whom the client was supposed to be Dr Batholuzweuz however the practice ended up using the building. What's interesting about the building is that it has a mixture of interior and exterior spaces. The exterior spaces can be revealed by the courtyards at the front, middle and end of the villa. We see that this villa has interior to exterior transitions and exterior to interior transitions. The front building of the villa is usually for the servants or low class people, then as you move to the main buildings we see that the far right enclosed spaces serve the office for Geoffery Bawa and the administrative department. With the drawings
Research for Assignment Two- Paragraph About The "Morning Sun"
The widow as we can see is suffering from depression as well as some anger management issues. We see that this widow is behaving in that way because of a tragic incident which turned her life upside down. This tragic incident could refer to her partner whom she had known and got along for years who suddenly got killed in a accident or died from an illness. The isolation of the widow shows the depressing side that she has no one to support her or help her out. The isolation also shows anger on why this incident had turned that widow's life has been ruined. Hopper defined the widow as a 68 year old as shown in a autobiography by Gail Levin which gives clues that her life has been wasted and there nothing else she wants to do for leisure. The location of the widow's room is a bedroom situated in a apartment block in Washingston Square, the surburbia area of New York City. We see that reflections of lighting had played an important role in the painting which is common with all of Hopper's paintings.
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