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 https://www.engelvoelkers.com/en/blog/luxury-living/architecture/le-corbusiers-style-and-design-philosophy/ https://www.studio2a.net/corbusier-manifesto-five-points-of-new-architecture/  L’Esprit Nouveau: Corbusier's Architectural Manifesto Full Disclosure  To my great surprise, during my research, I found out Le Corbusier was a Nazi. -Well, there is debate. Some argue that Corbusier was no fascist, but an opportunist who would suck up to any regime in order to get his buildings made. I have no intention to make my mind up on whether Corbusier was or wasn't a fascist. We'll never truly know and his association with Vichy is enough for me to feel uneasy. It reminds me of being 15 again, going into my city's art scene thinking,  'These people are artists; they must be good people! No artist could ever be a bad person!' There is no hint of irony there, that was quite a dangerous way of thinking. Unfortunately the art world harbours a lot of predators; I've bee...

Dear Mr. Jewell, : Rothko Manifesto For Those Who Don't Know Mark Rothko was a prominent member of the New York School painters. His family emigrated to America, fearing that their eldest sons would be drafted into the Russian Imperial Army. He was awarded a scholarship to study at Yale, but left before graduating, due to the conservative environment. Rothko went to New York and began taking figure and still life drawing classes as well as enrolling at Parsons New School for Design. He is often grouped with the Abstract Expressionist movement, despite his claims that he was not an abstractionist. Rothko was inspired by mythology and the likes of Freud, Jung, and Nietzsche. A Letter Sent to The New York Times This manifesto was written as part of a letter written with Adolph Gottlieb to the New York Times in 1943. You can read the full letter here . 1. To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risks.  2. This world of th...

My Hero Kiarostami ‘I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.’   Abbas Kiarostami is an Iranian filmmaker, photographer, painter and poet. He studied Fine Art at Tehran University. Kiarostami is the first Iranian filmmaker to win the Palme d’Or. 'I wanted somehow to eternalize those moments of passion and pain.’ I first met Kiarostami when I was 16. It was early September. I had just started art college. I was sleeping with a man who was much older than me. He was the first person to ever see me naked. On one occasion, I went over to his apartment and he was watching Taste of Cherry . I didn't pay much attention at all to the film, instead very much focused on the tingling sensation rushing through my body every time he held my hand. Afterwards, I could only remember that the film had seemed somewhat boring and very grown up . I thought back on it for years, trying to conjure up the name of what film we...

Note from author* the   text below is from a free writing exercise I did during my 2nd year art college FMP. When I read it back it still felt really relevant to my practise, and even reminded me of things I had forgotten. I thought it would be useful to add to my notes and research around Manifesto.  Old Free Writing I Found  It’s hard to know what I should start with talking about. I don’t feel entirely conscious of what I want to say. I thought I was doing a project about Annihilation, in a cosmic earth shattering way.  Everything I made felt condescending and cruel. The work felt like it was saying ‘I know more than you’, when really what I wanted to communicate was ‘I see you, and you see me: we see ourselves’.  When I was looking over my slides with Siobhan and we stopped on a Kiarostami quote:  ‘Contemplating the cloudy sky and the massive trunk of a tree under a magical light is difficult when one is alone. Not being able to feel the pleasure of see...

                 ' A joyless sexual tantrum...'  Provocation: Lars von Trier My research into the Dogme 95 Manifesto got me thinking a lot about Lars von Trier. A man who was described by Shia Labeouf  as 'this generations Tarkovsky' . When I began writing about Dogme, I was most definitely a LvT apologist. I thought, 'Hey I actually kind of like Lars von Trier, people just choose to misunderstand him.' I went through this little phase of being obsessed with Lars von Trier for about a week, and then realised I'm a bit of a fake fan seeing as I'd  only actually seen Melancholia.   So I decided to watch Nymphomaniac Vol. I & II (I watched the directors cut of both, a total of 5+ hours of LvT time). Nymphomaniac was described  by the New Yorker as 'a joyless sexual tantrum' .  I read a lot of reviews before and after watching Nymphomaniac. The general consensus I gathered was the people hated LvT and t...

Dogme 95 "My supreme goal is to force the truth out of my characters and settings." What interests me about the Dogme 95 manifesto (the films it produced, and the people that produced it) is the reactive response it tends to provoke. There was lots of literature out there on the web about Dogme 95, a stark contrast to my research into Valentine de Saint-Point. Dogme 95 was a response to the CGI-blockbusters that (may have lacked artistic integrity) had huge budgets out of reach of independent filmmakers. But even saying this makes me feel uncomfortable - it feels like a too text book way to describe anything that provokes von Treir. I think people resent the manifesto, and von Trier because he makes people anxious. He makes people anxious because you never know how seriously to take him; Dogme 95 is no different. After reading out the ‘Vow of Chastity’ and manifesto in the Paris Odeon, von Trier threw red leaflets containing the manuscript into the crowd, declared he could ...