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"The Piano House"

by Hefei University of Technology

 

 

This is a piano and violin house.  Something that I think many musicians would love to live in if they deeply are passionate about music.  This house is located in Huainan City, China and was recently built in 2007 by the architectural students as a way to draw interest to the city.  The building has escalators, meeting rooms, and space to host weddings and other events.  The violin, made completely out of glass, serves as the entry to the house, linking the elevated piano to the ground. The piano portion of the house stands on three concrete legs and features a roof terrace beneath a canopy shaped like the piano’s open top.  It's very unclear as to why this piece was made but it does bring a lot of romance to the area.

 

When I saw this house I couldn't believe what I was looking at. (WOW)  I don't know if I could ever live in something like this just because its to much glass for me and it looks like it is out in the middle of nowhere.  Music plays a huge part of my life and I find myself relating some of my life issues with songs but I don't think I would go as far as living in a glass house. 

 

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"Ad Astra"

Sculpted by Matteo Pugliese

 

This piece is from the collection of Matteo Pugliese called the "Extra Moenia" which is an on going series of sculptures that push and reach out from the gallery walls as if in search of something.  In this sculpture I see a man who is deeply trying to push his way out from the darkness that is in the wall.  From looking at his back and the strong detail used in showing the muscles being worked to push out tells me that he is afraid.  Also that he is using all he has to not get sucked in anymore than he already is.  Pugliese developed a strong love for drawing and sculpture and continued his art work without any formal education. On Pugliese’s innovative bronze sculptures, an Italian art critic states, "In a display of titanic potency, his modern Telamons do not support the weight of the architecture holding them, but are an integral part of a whole from which they try to break free."  I totally agree with this. 

 

 



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"The Judgment of Paris"

Lucas Cranach the Elder

This piece is of two men and three women standing in the woods talking.  The men are fully clothed while the women only have on jewels and a hat.  If you look very closely you can see that the women have on a clear shear cloth that is wrapped around their waist.  Also up in the left hand corner is cupid getting ready to send love to someone. I get the sense that the man in the brown attire is offering these ladies as a token to the other man.  In today's society, this is usually called prostitution and the man holding the glass ball is their pimp. 

Painted about 1528, this picture is a mythological painting of an event that happened prior to the Trojan War starting.  Lucas depicts Paris, dressed in a contemporary suit of armor, as he deliberates over the fairest of three goddesses: Minerva, Venus, and Juno. While Mercury stands nearby holding the converted prize a golden apple (here transformed into a glass orb). Cupid aims his arrow at Venus, signaling Paris’s decision in favor of the goddess of love.

Lucas used oil on wood technique for this painting.  Infrared reflectography revealed linear contours drawn with a brush. The horse’s raised leg was drawn lower and further forward and the painted dead branches deviate slightly from the underdrawing. The underdrawn lines in the legs of the goddesses were intended to remain visible through the paint film to depict veins below the surface of the skin.