The Depth of Violet: A Botanical Study of the Purple Iris
A fresh glimpse into the easel at the Roi Pajursky Art Studio. This piece is a deep, immersive dive into botanical expressionism, focusing on the intricate anatomy and rich color transitions of a Purple Iris.
The core of this acrylic on paper study lies in the exploration of the color purple. I wanted to push the boundaries of this royal hue, layering deep, velvet plums and dark violets against soft lavender edges and brilliant strokes of gold. The contrasting textures build a powerful visual weight, highlighting the organic geometry hidden within the flower's petals.
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Louis Kahn with fascinating Anne Tyng both explored in late 50s singular structural models for a tower design based on geometry with triangular mesh into facades, this supposed a visionary statement on architecture concept so valid in the currect times.
Here is a similar concept, a tower which combines modular homes with vertical farms, designed to be build with CLT in India: +
images from:
# 1-Architectural Review v.121 n.724 May 1957, 345 # 2-Architecture D'Aujourd'Hui v. 25 no. 55 Jul 1954, 11 #3-Perspecta 2 1953, 24 #4- Architecture D'Aujourd'Hui 102 Jun 1962, 5
Chanéac + Pascal Häusermann :
Centre Beaubourg competition.1974
In 1971, Chanéac wih Claude and Pascal Häusermann made a proposal for the international competition for the construction of the Beaubourg Centre (1971-1974), later renamed Georges Pompidou Centre.
The Chanéac project is completely opposed to the one projected by winners Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, inaugurated in 1977. The rectangular parallelepiped of metal and glass, made of straight lines, the center of Piano and Rogers occupies only half of the site. The Chanéac project, on the other hand, displays large curved volumes of varying sizes, opaque or transparent, overlapping the entire esplanade around a body of water.
As you can see on images above, Chanéac imagined a complex organic structure from a gushing arc and an enveloping arc. The architect defends the concept of architecture as “sculpture and landscape, palpitating, rich and complex in radical opposition with an architectural philosophy that wants to create very neutral volumes to fade before the works in shelters”. As such, Chanéac could trigger audio-visual experiments and generate multiple and unexpected uses.
If you want to see this fantastic drawings, models and other bizarre projects there is an exhibition called ¨Musées sans gravité¨ at Le FRAC-Artothèque du Limousin from 27.01.2017 to 20.05.2017 in Limoges, France.
more about Pompidou Centre here +
more about Cháneac projects + and here +
image 1. Section A-B with notations. Chanéac. Beaubourg Centre , 1974.
image 2. Section AB-CD. Chanéac. Beaubourg Centre , 1974.
image 3. Exploded axonometric diagram. Chanéac. Beaubourg Centre , 1974.
[★♥] Lived in an organic structure with their siblings
[★♥] Near the ruins of a human city
[★♥] Travelled the ruins a lot and met a human child there at some point
[🌟♥] Tall, humanoid
[🌟♥ Black, amphibian-like skin
[🌟♥] Had various psychic powers, such as telekinesis, mind control and likely something more
2016: Etudes de Fjord. Last week I went to an incredible stain painting workshop here in Brussels after which I came home buzzing with ideas and creative energy and needed to put the techniques into practice right away. I wanted a big canvas for it, so I took the Frankrijk painting (http://letthemcallitblack.tumblr.com/image/135571041149) and put more layers on it. The white paint is furniture paint which stayed somehow separate from the blue and black acrylic paint. The paints were poured, tossed, swiveled and directed with a brush on the wet canvas, I used extra water to make some parts more runny and mix some parts directly on the canvas ... basically creating a beautiful mess. Then chance, gravity, temperature etc. did their thing and changed the painting some more, and voilà, here you have the result.
