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Dinard - La ronde de la Malouine - série Paysage de bord de mer Bretagne
Laurent Lamare
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,979
Flowering on baroque gate - Italian painting
Giuseppe Landi
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$710
Four Times the Living Space
Brian Nash
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,750
Jazz bleu au dessus de Paris
Claire Pendelio
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,183
Ponte di Rialto - Venice painting
Antonio Sgarbossa
Painting - 85 x 85 x 1 cm Painting - 33.5 x 33.5 x 0.4 inch
$892
City Palace. Udaipur. Inde.
Olivier Perrin
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$341
Sans Titre I, série Prism
Matthieu Venot
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,364
Moulage brutaliste en béton des choux de Créteil par le studio Spaceplay et la galerie 54 Dunkerque.
Spaceplay Spaceplay
Sculpture - 9 x 3 x 3 cm Sculpture - 3.5 x 1.2 x 1.2 inch
$91
Where the tower is
Rieko Kuriyama
Painting - 53 x 45.5 x 3 cm Painting - 20.9 x 17.9 x 1.2 inch
$966
Le torrent dans la montagne
Bernard Gantner
Painting - 81 x 100 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 inch
$9,663
Casa Désirs Divins
Chrystèle Saint-Amaux
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$281
Tour Pleyel
Jean François Humbert
Photography - 88 x 60 x 0.15 cm Photography - 34.6 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$2,103
Confinement
Pierre-Yves Riveaux (Pez)
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2.54 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 1 inch
$16,000
At the End of the Day
Natia Sapanadze
Painting - 44 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 17.3 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$2,160
The Big Apple
Pierre-Yves Riveaux (Pez)
Sculpture - 36.83 x 26.67 x 24.13 cm Sculpture - 14.5 x 10.5 x 9.5 inch
$9,500
San Giorgio Maggiore
Michael Neamand
Painting - 83.8 x 127 x 3.8 cm Painting - 33 x 50 x 1.5 inch
$3,200
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
$3,890
Traction #1
Florian Pugnaire
Sculpture - 125 x 68 x 80 cm Sculpture - 49.2 x 26.8 x 31.5 inch
$13,641
Moon Shin Museum Stairs 1975
Moon Shin
Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 10 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.1 x 3.9 inch
$2,160
Cosi after the rain
Linda McCluskey
Painting - 92 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,591
La flamme arrive à Marseille
Isabelle Hirtzig
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$111
Le manoir englouti
Lionel Morateur
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.5 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.2 inch
$1,478
Sunset Rooftops
Mark Jeffrey Weiss
Painting - 117 x 86 x 4 cm Painting - 46.1 x 33.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,910
L'ami quotidien
Juliette Lamarca
Painting - 130 x 97 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,410
Funky Metropolis London
Maria Luisa Azzini
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.8 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.5 inch
$1,478
Villa moderniste Balion - Crète
Thierry Machuron
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$6,821
Découverte d'une fresque dans une chapelle
Lison Favarger
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$5,693
Le petit prince rencontre Hockney
Sokar
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,842
Nature sauvage
Virginie Mézan de Malartic
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,297
Vers Louvre-Dauphine
Guillaume Chansarel (Guiyome)
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$5,059
Bibliothèque d’eau de mer
Anne-Laure Wuillai
Sculpture - 70 x 42 x 10 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 16.5 x 3.9 inch
$7,389
Tropical Landscape
Jean-Raymond Delpech
Fine Art Drawings - 26.5 x 35.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.4 x 14 x 0 inch
$682
Festival of Fire
Ofobuike Okudoh
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 49.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.5 inch
$3,410
La rencontre
Franck-Bernard Gaulier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,933
Vanderbilt avenue
Patrick Rousseau
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,297
Bougainvillea
Charlotte Yonga
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,478
On écoute le grand pere
Fausto Perez
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,705
The birth of Venus
Evgeniya Buravleva
Painting - 35 x 45 x 1.5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 17.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,080
Tornando con le spese, Novembre 1955 - New York
Fabrizio La Torre
Photography - 60 x 42 x 0.5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 16.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,876
Bleu Léman | Vevey Suisse
Gwenaël Bollinger
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$887
Paris 1975, ile de la cité
Francisco Hidalgo
Photography - 12 x 16 cm Photography - 4.7 x 6.3 inch
$1,080
La poulie et trois mâts
Patrick Chevailler
Painting - 50 x 75 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,956
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!