This posting is a continuation of a series that can be found on my sidebar. I started the series with the idea of showing that art history is not linear, and that the totality of art is a never-ending circle of inspiration. Knowing that, all art should be viewed freshly.
The Aqua Building of Chicago was designed by Jeanne Gang (and a team she led) and completed in 2009. It rises 86 stories and mirrors the undulating lines of Antoni Gaudi's Casa Mila.
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| Antoni Gaudi's Casa Mila, 1905 - 1910 | Jeanne Gang's Aqua Building, 2009 |
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| Joseph Pickett, c. 1918 | Charles Wysocki, c.1970 |
Charles Wysocki considered himself neither a primitive nor a naive painter (I would call his charming style "pseudo-naive."). Wysocki said that he was influenced in part by the work of the primitive painter, Joseph Pickett, though only a handful of Pickett's works exist.
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| Photo by Julia Margaret Cameron, between 1864 and 1875 | Photo by Anne Geddes |
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| Napoleon by Ingres, 1806 | Ice T by Kehinde Wiley, 2005 |
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| Matthew Boulton, early 1770s | The Yusupov Egg, Peter Carl Fabergé, 1907 |
Matthew Boulton, the British industrialist and partner of James Watt, is credited with modernizing the British Mint. For a period of time he produced ormolu and marble urns to satisfy a great demand for them in Britain. When the demand suddenly ceased, Boulton was left with a large inventory of such urns, which Catherine II of Russia was happy to buy up. Doubtlessly, Fabergé was familiar with these pieces.
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| Chateau Rastignac, 1789-1817 | The White House, 1824 |
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