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The playful power of water
Tetiana Ocheredko
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,463
Arquitecturas espaciales VI - serie escenografías urbanas-
José Fernández Morán
Painting - 73 x 51 x 0.2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 20.1 x 0.1 inch
£834
Psychédélique village
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 120 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,331
NY by night Manhattan
Nelson Fabiano
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
£2,218
Paysage fragmenté
Evelyne Portal
Painting - 22 x 16 x 2 cm Painting - 8.7 x 6.3 x 0.8 inch
£177 £160
Yard by the sea
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,626
Goethe's Blues And Busts. From the Poetic Enfilades series
Celia Rogge
Photography - 182.9 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 72 x 48 x 0.1 inch
£8,027
City in Cherry Blossoms
Alexander Shandor
Painting - 50 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,626
Sous le soleil exactement/16
Jean-Jacques Venturini
Painting - 89 x 116 x 4 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1.6 inch
£2,218
Fifty Shades of Broadway
Charles Fazzino
Print - 41 x 69 x 4 cm Print - 16.1 x 27.2 x 1.6 inch
£9,758
Chrysler Building N.Y.
LUIS J. FERNANDEZ
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
£4,347
Sans Titre I, série Ground Loop
Matthieu Venot
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£1,065
Floating Favelas, Red Expansion II
David Moreno
Sculpture - 41 x 45 x 18 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 17.7 x 7.1 inch
£3,105
Statue of Liberty, from the New York, New York portfolio
Robert Rauschenberg
Print - 90.2 x 59.7 x 0.1 cm Print - 35.5 x 23.5 x 0 inch
£3,992
Fenêtre sur lac Variation III
Gabriel Riesnert
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
£710
Vue sur rue, Alcúdia
Christelle Yambayisa
Photography - 105 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 41.3 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
£1,686
De la serie Del otro lado del muro
Gustavo Díaz Sosa
Painting - 70 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£1,686
Bastide en Provence
Bernard Buffet
Painting - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
£86,936
Midsummer Night Blues
Laëtitia Giraud
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,996
Laissons entrer le soleil#268
Céline Pierzchala
Painting - 50 x 40 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
£222
The vineyard road - Tuscany landscape painting
Raimondo Pacini
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£288
Personnages sous le porche de l'église
Armand Marie Guérin
Painting - 72.5 x 59.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 28.5 x 23.4 x 0.2 inch
£1,226
The Charming One - Limited Edition Print
Fatima Mian
Photography - 100 x 100 x 0.1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0 inch
£515
Baie de Naples et pêcheurs
Roberto Scognamiglio
Painting - 24 x 27.5 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 10.8 x 0.8 inch
£1,599
Around the Shepard Bush
Marco Santaniello
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£4,081
Genets sauvages, lithographie originale
Claude Gaveau
Print - 56 x 72.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 22 x 28.5 x 0.1 inch
£337
Amerapoora. My-au-dyk Kyoung - Tripe
Thomas Ruff
Photography - 40 x 50 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 inch
£1,597
Sicily 21, Google Earth Landscapes Series
Alexander Lufer
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£577
Tour Pleyel
Jean François Humbert
Photography - 88 x 60 x 0.15 cm Photography - 34.6 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
£1,641
Wanted! Grand Palais, Signé
Daniel Arsham
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£621
A Modern Architectural Marvel
Aram Movsisyan
Painting - 65 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
£309
Baie de la Chania
Jacques Guillet
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,597
Tortue avec stèle
Ivan Theimer
Sculpture - 79.5 x 17.5 x 13 cm Sculpture - 31.3 x 6.9 x 5.1 inch
£19,516
Battersea Power Station
Marco Araldi
Painting - 72 x 91 x 5 cm Painting - 28.3 x 35.8 x 2 inch
£2,500
New York City Cultural Institutions, from the New York, New York portfolio
Robert Motherwell
Print - 76.2 x 57.2 x 0.1 cm Print - 30 x 22.5 x 0 inch
£2,573
Palazzo Grimani, Female Center
Magda Von Hanau
Photography - 121.9 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 48 x 32 x 0.1 inch
£3,252
French Terrace Tranquility
Alexander Grinshpun
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,626
How did they build that?
Gregory Orekhov
Sculpture - 181.5 x 19 x 3.8 cm Sculpture - 71.5 x 7.5 x 1.5 inch
£17,742
Chinesischer Turm, München
Peter Neusser
Photography - 122 x 87 cm Photography - 48 x 34.3 inch
£2,839
New York city Rain #9
Marco Barberio
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,490
The Tower
Sam Perry
Fine Art Drawings - 88.9 x 71.12 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 28 x 0.8 inch
£1,016
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 1
Antoine Kubler
Photography - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
£222
Graduation Day, Rockefeller Chapel, UChicago, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Leon Sarantos
Painting - 55.9 x 71.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 22 x 28 x 1 inch
£3,162
New York, Green Carpet
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Print - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
£160
Monte Savello, Rome
Luigi Surdi
Painting - 55 x 65.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 25.8 x 0.2 inch
£2,008
Bitter Campari, Milan
Richard Heeps
Photography - 80 x 63.5 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25 x 0 inch
£700
Houses on the lake - Lombardy painting landscape & frame
Claudio Pallini
Painting - 20 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
£244
Terrace with flowers - Amalfi painting Italy
Gianni Di Guida
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£288
#3201 "Berlinimalism #01"
Oliver Lipinski
Photography - 50 x 100 x 0.6 cm Photography - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.2 inch
£1,238
Architecture
Art and architecture share many similarities. They've influenced one another throughout history. However, trying to liken these two disciplines will inevitably lead to certain contractions.
Perhaps the biggest difference is that Art, in its broadest sense, is defined as a creation meant to trigger an emotional response which is generally related to aesthetic pleasure. It doesn't satisfy any of life's basic needs, but it leads to thoughts, reflections, and often taps into our subconscious and our memory. On the other hand, architecture's primary purpose is to shelter individuals and ensure their safety. Architecture is meant to serve a utilitarian purpose.
Today, architecture has gone far beyond this initial function. Architects have strived to combine engineering and aesthetic research to create buildings that are so out of the ordinary we wonder how they were designed. They want their creations to stand out and favour originality and creativity. Just like in arts, architecture is influenced by the historical, social, and political context of the time and each movement has its own characteristics, from baroque to futurism to Bauhaus. Modern architecture marked a turn in the history of architecture. Architects revolutionised the social scope of their discipline and took an industrialist approach to society and nature — avant-garde architects rubbed shoulders with artists such as Georges Braque, Piet Mondrian, and members of the De Stijl group. Le Corbusier is a pioneer in collective housing, and also took part in ambitious projects which aimed to rebuild entire cities, such as Chandigarh in India. Decorative arts also developed by taking inspiration from the conventions that governed modernist architecture.
Contemporary architecture might not be a specific movement per se, but buildings that fall into this category share certain attributes. Contemporary architecture is characterised by curvy lines and various volumes in a single structure, as seen with the Sydney Opera House. The architect Jørn Utzon explained that he didn't seek to create a building for this project, but an actual sculpture. The building continually renews itself with new meanings and experiences for each passerby. Architectural works often require periods of deep reflection and a long though process in order for the architect to envisage how to give their building a sense of character and soul.
Whether architecture is an art or not is a never ending debate, but it is undeniable that there are strong links between the two disciplines. There are many examples of collaborations between contemporary artists and architects, and today the works of the greatest architects are exhibited in museums along with their fellow artists.
Discover our selections of artworks inspired by art and architecture!