inside: blue [PART ]
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outside: red [WHOLE]
[reinterpretation of photo]
Ricardo Bofill: La Muralla Roja
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Alex Webb: Mexico, Tehuantepec, 1985: Children playing in a courtyard
courtyard [WHOLE ]
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child [PART]
[reinterpretation of photo]
Grant Wood: American Gothic, 1930
painting of couple [PART ]
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couple [WHOLE]
[reinterpretation of photo]
Gijs Van Vaerenbergh: Reading between the lines
large existing [WHOLE ]
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scaled new [PART]
[reinterpretation of photo]
BIG Bjarke Ingels: Mountain-Bjerget: whole & part
individual appartments [PART ]
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communal parking [WHOLE]
[reinterpretation of photo]
De Vylder Vinck Taillieu: house Alexis: context
“The new roof reveals the constraints of the neighboring roofs.”
[from http://www.architectendvvt.com/projects/alexis%5D
street [WHOLE]
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house [PART]
[reinterpretation of photo’s and section drawings by by Filip Dujardin/dvvt]
René Magritte: complete picture
“I cannot paint until I have the complete picture in my mind”
[quote by René Magritte]
complete picture [rightup: WHOLE]
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first brushstroke [leftdown: PART]
René Magritte: The Man with the Newspaper 1928
with man [rightup: WHOLE]
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without man [leftdown: PART]
[reinterpretation of painting]
René Magritte: The Living Mirror 1929
the whole horizon [rightup: WHOLE]
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detail: wardrobe [leftdown: PART]
[reinterpretation of painting]
René Magritte: The Interpretation of Dreams (1) 1927
wind [rightup: WHOLE]
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bird in the wind [leftdown: PART]
[reinterpretation of painting]
René Magritte: Die Fixe Idee 1928
nature [rightup: WHOLE]
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culture [leftdown: PART]
[reinterpretation of painting]
René Magritte: Les Deux Mystères 1966
real thing [rightup: WHOLE]
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image [leftdown: PART]
[reinterpretation of painting]
Neutelings Riedijk: At Work: building & context
“A city is like a large house and a house is like a small city.”
[fromAlberti L.B., De re aedificatoria On the art of Building (Ten Books) 1452]
city [WHOLE]
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house [PART]
Peter Mendelsund: Kafka books: self-similarity
all books [rightup: WHOLE]
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one book [leftdown: PART]
[reinterpretation of book covers]
Andrew Wyett: Christina’s World, 1948
distant [rightup: WHOLE]
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close [leftdown: PART]
[reinterpretation of painting]
Neutelings Riedijk: At Work: building & context
“Context: Buildings always land somewhere on earth. They have to settle on site, on location. … They may have to be introverted in response to aggressive surroundings, or extroverted at a public place. Sometimes they have to clash with their surroundings, and sometimes rhyme with them. … Each of the buildings has its own part to play, but together they add up to a single composition. …”
[from Neutelings-Riedijk, At Work, 010, 2005]
context [WHOLE]
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building [PART]
Katsushika Hokusai: view of lake Suwa
distant [rightup: WHOLE]
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close [leftdown: PART]
[reinterpretation of painting]
Logone Birni Cameroon
Similarity: a point, feature, or detail in which two items are alike
Self-similarity: the property of having a substructure analagous or identical to an overall structure [WHOLE: richtup: town / PART: leftdown: individual house]
[definition of similarity and self-similarity by thefreedictionary.com]
[reinterpretation of photos]
Teotihuacan: self-similarity
small pyramidal structures [leftdown: PART] >< large pyramidal structure [IN BETWEEN] >< landscape and mountains [rightup: WHOLE]
[reinterpretation of photo of pyramidal structures in Teotihuacan, Mexico, dating from ±100BC-250AD]
Camouflage
“Camouflage is a set of methods of concealment that allows … objects [PART] to remain unnoticed by blending with their environment [WHOLE] or by resembling something else.”
[from Wikipedia]
Kit White
“Eliminate the nonessential. Every work of art should contain whatever it needs to fulfill its decriptive objective but nothing more. Look at the “leftover” parts of every composition. Successful images have no dead spaces or inactive parts. Look at your compositions holistically and make sure that every element advances the purposes of the whole.”
[quote from White Kit, 101 Things to Learn in Art School, MIT, Cambridge Massachussets, 2011]
Alex Van Gelder: Louise Bourgeois
rightup: zoomout: Louise [WHOLE] >< leftdown: zoomin: enlarged selfportrait? [PART]
[interpretation of photo by Alex Van Gelder, 2012]
Anatol Herzfeld: Insel Hombroich: waiters in grid
rightup: trees in grid [WHOLE] >< leftdown: waiters in grid [PART]
[reinterpretation of photos of waiters by Anatol Herzfeld]
Michelangelo: Creation of Adam
rightup: God [WHOLE] >< leftdown: Adam [PART]
[reinterpretation of painting Creation of Adam by Michelangelo, 1512]
Vladimir Shukhov: water tower Nizhny
rightup: context: steel architecture [WHOLE] >< leftdown: staircase: steel architecture [PART]
[reinterpretation of images of water tower Nizhny, by engineer Vladimir Shukhov, 1896]
Pieter Bruegel the elder: Netherlandish Proverbs
rightup: distant [WHOLE] >< leftdown: close [PART]
[reinterpretation of painting Netherlandish Proverbs by Pieter Bruegel the elder, 1559]
Jean-Claude Deutsch: Isabelle Adjani
rightup: zoomout [WHOLE] >< leftdown: zoomin [PART]
[reinterpretation of images of Isabelle Adjani, photographed by Jean-Claude Deutsch, 1973]
Musgun Huts Cameroon
Similarity: a point, feature, or detail in which two items are alike
Self-similarity: the property of having a substructure analagous or identical to an overall structure [WHOLE: richtup: circular farm / PART: leftdown: individual circular hut]
[definition of similarity and self-similarity by thefreedictionary.com]
[Interpretation of photos of Seattle library by architect OMA, 2004]
Ackermann: reflektion
leftdown: mirror [PART] >< rightup: mirror of mirror of mirror… [WHOLE]
[reinterpretation of installation by Ackermann]
World Maps: abstractions of the globe to platonic solids
from a thorough abstraction [cube with 6 faces: LEFTDOWN: PART]
to almost no abstraction [icosahedron with 20 faces: RIGHTUP: WHOLE]
[reinterpretation of foldable globes from www.progonos.com/furuti]
Josef Albers: between yellow(green) and purple
rightup: purple outside [WHOLE ] >< leftdown: yellow(green) inside [PART]
[reinterpretation of painting ‘between yellow and purple’, by Josef Albers]
Josef Albers: greys inbetween yellow
rightup: yellow outside [WHOLE ] >< leftdown: yellow inside [PART]
[reinterpretation of painting ‘greys inbetween yellow, by Josef Albers]
Josef Albers: all & some
rightup: all [WHOLE ] >< leftdown: some [PART]
[reinterpretation of painting by Josef Albers]
Josef Albers: whole & part
rightup [WHOLE ] >< leftdown [PART]
[reinterpretation of painting by Josef Albers]
François Morellet: many & some
rightup: many [WHOLE ] >< leftdown: some [PART]
[reinterpretation of painting by François Morellet]
Sol Lewitt: Wall Drawing 381
rightup: color [WHOLE] >< leftdown: no color [PART]
[reinterpretation of Wall Drawing by Sol Lewitt]
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