AD REINHARDT

AD REINHARDT. ABSTRACT PAINTER FROM 1930S AND THROUGH 1960S. PART OF THE MOVEMENT CENTERED AROUND THE BETTY PARSONS GALLERY KNOWN AS ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM. HE WROTE AND LECTURED EXTENSIVELY ON ART AND WAS A MAJOR INFLUENCE ON CONCEPTUAL, MINIMAL ART AND MONOCHROME PAINTING. MOST FAMOUS FOR HIS "BLACK" OR "ULTIMATE" PAINTINGS, HE BELIEVED IN A PHILOSOPHY OF ART HE CALLED ART-AS-ART AND USED HIS WRITING AND SATIRICAL CARTOONS TO ADVOCATE FOR ABSTRACT ART. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

11.410 JOHN SOANE

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JOHN SOANE. ENGLISH ARCHITECT WHO SPECIALISED IN THE NEO-CLASSICAL STYLE. HIS ARCHITECTURAL WORKS ARE DISTINGUISHED BY THEIR CLEAN LINES, MASSING OF SIMPLE FORM, DECISIVE DETAILING, CAREFUL PROPORTIONS AND SKILFUL USE OF LIGHT SOURCES. THE INFLUENCE OF HIS WORK, COMING AT THE END OF THE GEORGIAN ERA, WAS SWAMPED BY THE REVIVAL STYLES OF THE 19TH CENTURY. HIS BEST-KNOWN WORK WAS THE BANK OF ENGLAND. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

YOUTUBE BREAKFAST: 10.332 LE CORBUSIER

YOUTUBE BREAKFAST: 10.332 LE CORBUSIER: retrouver ce média sur http://www.ina.fr/



LE CORBUSIER. SWISS-FRENCH ARCHITECT, DESIGNER, URBANIST, WRITER AND ALSO PAINTER, ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF WHAT NOW IS CALLED MODERN ARCHITECTURE OR THE INTERNATIONAL STYLE. VERS UNE ARCHITECTURE (1923) (TOWARDS AN ARCHITECTURE). IN THE 1930S, LE CORBUSIER EXPANDED AND REFORMULATED HIS IDEAS ON URBANISM, EVENTUALLY PUBLISHING THEM IN LA VILLE RADIEUSE (THE RADIANT CITY) OF 1935. LE CORBUSIER CONTRIBUTED TO A NEW JOURNAL CALLED L'ESPRIT NOUVEAU THAT ADVOCATED THE USE OF MODERN INDUSTRIAL TECHNIQUES AND STRATEGIES TO TRANSFORM SOCIETY INTO A MORE EFFICIENT ENVIRONMENT WITH A HIGHER STANDARD OF LIVING ON ALL SOCIOECONOMIC LEVELS. FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE CONGRÈS INTERNATIONAL D'ARCHITECTURE MODERNE (CIAM). WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

11.406 ZAHA HADID

ZAHA HADID. IRAQI-BRITISH ARCHITECT. SHE WORKED WITH REM KOOLHAAS AND ELIA ZENGHELIS AT THE OFFICE FOR METROPOLITAN ARCHITECTURE, BECOMING A PARTNER IN 1977. IT WAS WITH KOOLHAAS THAT SHE MET THE ENGINEER PETER RICE WHO GAVE HER SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT EARLY ON, AT A TIME WHEN HER WORK SEEMED DIFFICULT TO BUILD. IN 2004 HADID BECAME THE FIRST FEMALE RECIPIENT OF THE PRITZKER IN 2006, HADID WAS HONORED WITH A RETROSPECTIVE SPANNING HER ENTIRE WORK AT THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM IN NEW YORK. IN 2008, SHE RANKED 69TH ON THE FORBES LIST OF "THE WORLD'S 100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN". WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

YAYOI KUSAMA

JAPANESE ARTIST WHOSE PAINTINGS, COLLAGES, SOFT SCULPTURES, PERFORMANCE ART AND ENVIRONMENTAL INSTALLATIONS ALL SHARE AN OBSESSION WITH REPETITION, PATTERN, AND ACCUMULATION. KUSAMA'S WORK IS BASED INCONCEPTUAL ART AND SHOWS SOME ATTRIBUTES OF FEMINISM, MINIMALISM, SURREALISM, ART BRUT, POP ART, AND ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM, AND IS INFUSED WITH AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND SEXUAL CONTENT. KUSAMAIS ALSO A PUBLISHED NOVELIST AND POET, AND HAS CREATED NOTABLE WORK IN FILM AND FASHION DESIGN. 2008 CHRISTIES NEW YORK SOLD A WORK BY HER FOR $5.1 MILLION, A RECORD FOR A LIVING FEMALE ARTIST.  WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

11.404 PHILIP KOTLER

PHILIP KOTLER AMERICAN ECONOMIST. RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICS AND IN BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE. PROFESSOR KOTLER'S BOOK, MARKETING MANAGEMENT, IS THE WORLD'S MOST WIDELY USED GRADUATE LEVEL TEXTBOOK IN MARKETING. HIS OTHER TEXTBOOKS INCLUDE PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING AND MARKETING: AN INTRODUCTION. KOTLER DEVELOPED NEW CONCEPTS IN MARKETING INCLUDING DEMARKETING, MEGAMARKETING, TURBOMARKETING AND SYNCHROMARKETING. HE BELIEVES THAT MARKETING THEORY NEEDS TO GO BEYOND PRICE THEORY AND INCORPORATE THE DYNAMICS OF INNOVATION, DISTRIBUTION AND PROMOTION SYSTEMS INTO ANALYZING, EXPLAINING AND PREDICTING ECONOMIC OUTCOMES. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

11.403 RICHARD MEIER

YOUTUBE BREAKFAST: 10.306 CHANTALL MOUFFE

YOUTUBE BREAKFAST: 10.306 CHANTALL MOUFFE

YOUTUBE BREAKFAST: 10.304 LINA BO BARDI

YOUTUBE BREAKFAST: 10.304 LINA BO BARDI

11.401 IDA APPLEBROOG

11.400 PETER ZUMTHOR

11.399 SAMUEL BECKETT

11.398 MATTHEW BARNEY

MATHHEW BARNEY. AMERICAN ARTIST WHO WORKS IN SCULPTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY, DRAWING AND FILM. FROM SCULPTURAL INSTALLATIONS COMBINED WITH PERFORMANCE AND VIDEO. HE CREATED THE CREMASTER CYCLE. DRAWING RESTRAINTS 1–6 (1987–89) WERE DOCUMENTED WITH VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPHY. A MAJOR PROJECT CONSISTING OF A FEATURE-LENGTH FILM WITH SOUNDTRACK COMPOSED BY BJÖRK, LARGE-SCALE SCULPTURES, PHOTOGRAPHS AND DRAWINGS, HIS GRAPHITE AND PETROLEUM JELLY DRAWINGS. HE HAS EXPLORED LIVE PERFORMANCE BEFORE AN AUDIENCE A RITUALISTIC EXPLORATION OF EGYPTIAN SYMBOLISM IN ANCIENT NIGHTS. WIKI VIEW HISTORY.

11.397 BENOIT MANDELBROT

FRENCH AMERICAN MATHEMATICIAN. FATHER OF FRACTAL GEOMETRY. MANDELBROT COINED THE TERM FRACTAL AND PUBLISHED HIS IDEAS IN LES OBJETS FRACTALS, FORME, HASARD ET DIMENSION (1975; AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION FRACTALS: FORM, CHANCE AND DIMENSION WAS PUBLISHED IN 1977). HE BELIEVED THAT FRACTALS, FAR FROM BEING UNNATURAL, WERE IN MANY WAYS MORE INTUITIVE AND NATURAL THAN THE ARTIFICIALLY SMOOTH OBJECTS OF TRADITIONAL EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY. HE PUBLISHED THE FRACTAL GEOMETRY OF NATURE ACCESSIBLE TO NON-SPECIALISTS. WHERE HE STATED CLOUDS ARE NOT SPHERES, MOUNTAINS ARE NOT CONES, COASTLINES ARE NOT CIRCLES, AND BARK IS NOT SMOOTH, NOR DOES LIGHTNING TRAVEL IN A STRAIGHT LINE. WIKY. VIEW HISTORY

11.395 ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ

11.394 WALLACE BERMAN

11.393 HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON

11.392 AI WEI WEI

AI WIE WIE. CHINESE ARTIST, CURATOR, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER, SOCIAL COMMENTATOR, AND ACTIVIST ESTABLISH THE EXPERIMENTAL ARTISTS' GROUP BEIJING EAST VILLAGE AND PUBLISHED THREE BOOKS ABOUT THIS NEW GENERATION BLACK COVER BOOK (1994), WHITE COVER BOOK (1995), AND GRAY COVER BOOK (1997). FOCUSED AT EXPOSING CORRUPTION SCANDAL IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SICHUAN SCHOOLS THAT COLLAPSED DURING THE 2008 SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE FOR THIS HE CREATED THE INSTALLATION REMEMBERING MADE OUT OF 9000 CHILDREN'S BACKPACKS. IN CHINESE CHARACTERS. IN 2010, SUNFLOWER SEEDS WAS INSTALLED AT THE TATE MODERN TURBINE HALL, ONE HUNDRED MILLION PORCELAIN "SEEDS," HAND-PAINTED IN THE TOWN OF JINGDEZHEN BY 1,600 CHINESE ARTISANS. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY. 

11.391 PETER DOIG

11.390 LUC TUYMANS

11.388 ANSELM KIEFER