Posted on 06/30/2017 1:53:12 PM PDT by Lorianne
We are being indoctrinated to accept ugliness as a form of beauty.
Video 15:42
Brutalism =/= the sum whole of modern architecture.
It is just the low-hanging fruit that launches a million diatribes about how anything not neoclassical, Gothic or Victorian is garbage architecture.
And it isn’t proudly used by architects. It was a style that was controversial then as it is today. And yes lots of it was garbage, and a few examples were somewhat good for the time.
He also puts up an image of the Pompidou Center for some reason. A building that isn’t remotely in the same league as a Stalinist apartment block. It is one of Paris’s biggest draws, along with that tower that was also considered to be be a building that “sucks” when I was built.
“If the art has to be explained then it sucks.”
Are you serious?
I do love design from that time. Especially when comes to British trains.
How can “modern architecture” be modern if it first emerged over a hundred years ago? How long does it take before it becomes old, stale, boring, prosaic, pedantic, ordinary, and conventional architecture?
Have you ever been inside a Streamliner house? Abdo-lutely wonderfull. Not a bunck of box rooms stuffed under a roof.
The wind tunnel at the BMW R&D facility works pretty much the same as the wind tunnels at Chevy, Honda, Kia, etc.
Beautiful.
From the Art Deco era?
Looks like it.
As exhibit #1 I present IBM building #45 the infamous “rust bucket”.
2005 Corolla.
425,000 miles.
Jus’ sayin’ ...
Sadly no.
All of the buildings in my town long ago went to the wrecking ball.
They do have a style that could certainly make a comeback hopefully.
Interesting point!
Why don’t they design cars like bumper cars, so that there are no fender-benders, or worse? Isn’t it about time?
“From the Art Deco era?”
Yes! It has styly with out the later kitch of Mid-ZCenturt Modern.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.
"Modern" is over.
This is the post-modern era.
Don't ask me what comes after that. Post-post-modernism?
Modernism:
Post-modernism:
The same can be said about forms of art being taught in all education centers. If the art has to be explained then it sucks.
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I visited a modern art museum with my 11 and 13 year olds yesterday.. their minds haven’t yet been polluted by needing a grade from a professor ,,, it’s amazing how terrible most art is... the first exhibit was a crumpled ball of aluminum sheet with splotches of paint... we laughed about more than half the exhibits and only really agreed on the final exhibit which was a huge assortment of Tiffany art glass...
I need new glasses tout suite!
I spent a day walking around The Mall (Washington, DC) with my 10yo nephew. We had a lot of fun in the Hirschorn ... mocking the dreck housed therein.
The Hirschorn is painful. A fire would be a godsend, but I don’t suppose it would burn. I’d give ISIS a pass if they took it down.
i agree with watson totally here...im from pittsburgh, we are an old city that has a mix of ghetto crap modernism, brought to you by liberal elites just like described in the video....and beautiful older buildings and homes that emphasized form and function....
itza disaster to see what is done by those who think they know better than all of us, ‘the great unwashed’
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