http://www.AbfiMagazine.com/index.htm AbfiMagazine.com Arts and Architecture News Feed. Copyright 2007 AbsoluteFigures.com en-us Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:00:00 EDT http://www.abfimagazine.com/rss-arts-architecture/abfimagazine.gif http://www.AbfiMagazine.com/index.htm http://www.abfimagazine.com/arts/data/henri-matisse.htm Henri Matisse started a revolution in art by painting with hues that were heightened, saturated, unrealistic. He believed that color could not only describe objects, but also express emotions. Thu, 17 May 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.abfimagazine.com/architecture/data/frank-lloyd-wright.htm Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is unquestionably America's most celebrated architect. In fact, his career was so long and his accomplishments so varied it can be difficult still to grasp the full range of Wright's achievement. In this new study. Thu, 10 May 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.abfimagazine.com/arts/data/vermeerdelftschool.htm Seventeenth-century Delft has traditionally been viewed as a quaint town whose artists painted scenes of domestic life. This important book revises that image, showing that the small but vibrant Dutch city produced fine examples of all the major arts, including luxury goods and sophisticated paintings for the court at The Hague and for patrician collectors in Delft itself. Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.abfimagazine.com/architecture/data/prefab-modern.htm For many, the idea of prefab may bring to mind trailers and other less desirable images of housing. Instead, the new prefab is becoming the inevitable next step to cool housing as home buyers look for distinctive yet reasonably priced first and second homes. Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.abfimagazine.com/arts/data/00034.htm Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was in his lifetime the foremost painter in Spain, and his reputation has remained undimmed ever since. Tue, 3 Apr 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.abfimagazine.com/architecture/data/00002.htm A text for architectural design studio courses, geared to inspire design ideas and to help students understand the energy consequence of design decisions. Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.abfimagazine.com/architecture/data/00001.htm Featuring some of the most important architects of the region and generation - including Charles Eames, Craig Ellwood, A. Quincy Jones, Pierre Koenig, Richard Neutra, and Raphael Soriano-the program reflected the modernist goal of reinventing the house as a way of redefining living. Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.abfimagazine.com/architecture/architects.htm Buckminster Fuller, the brilliant and eccentric futurist philosopher best known as the inventor of the Geodesic Dome, was one of the most creative contributors to innovative thought and technology of the 20th century. Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.abfimagazine.com/arts/data/paul-cezanne-in-provence.htm Paul Cezanne was for the most part self-taught. Denied official recognition in Paris, he returned again and again to Provence to create his own style, largely independent of other artists' influence. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.abfimagazine.com/arts/old-masters.htm In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.free-e-books-downloads.com/e/architecture.htm Free Downloads Architecture, Arts and History, special offers and information on the topics YOU want to hear about. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.abfimagazine.com/architecture/data/eiffeltower.htm To celebrate the centenary of the French Revolution an international exposition was held in Paris in 1889. A competition was held for designs for an appropriate monument. The contest was won by the bridge engineer Gustave Eiffel. Eiffel was a French engineer who founded his own company in 1866. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.abfimagazine.com/arts/data/philipguston_retrospective.htm Philip Guston's early, figurative work and his mature abstractions have become much sought after by museums and private collectors. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.abfimagazine.com/arts/data/marcel-duchamp.htm Marcel Duchamp's stature in history of art has grown steadily since the 1930's, largely because several artistic movements have embraced him as their founding father. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.abfimagazine.com/arts/data/learning-from-art.htm Academy is an international series of exhibitions and projects initiated by Siemens Arts Program and realized in cooperation with the Kunstverein in Hamburg. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.abfimagazine.com/arts/data/jean-tinguely-in-duisburg.htm Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum is very pleased, to be able to present the public an important acquisition in her collection. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.abfimagazine.com/architecture/data/00021.htm American Dream documents the Houses at Sagaponac, a groundbreaking architecture project initiated by real estate developer Harry J. Brown. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.abfimagazine.com/arts/data/francisco-goya-old-man.htm In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.abfimagazine.com/arts/data/karel-appel-and-cobra.htm Karel Appel's early involvement with the famed avant-garde artist's group Cobra (Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam) led to an interest in folk art, children's art, and art by the mentally disturbed. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.abfimagazine.com/architecture/data/00019.htm Born in Estonia in 1901, Louis Isidore Kahn was to become one of the United States' most important architects of the post-war period, alongside the Modern masters Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:00:00 EDT