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Thomasson or Hyperart Thomasson (Japanese: Tomason トマソン or Chōgeijutsu Tomason 超芸術トマソン) is a type of conceptual art named by the Japanese artist Akasegawa Genpei in the 1980s. It refers to a useless relic or structure that has been preserved as part of a building or the built environment, which has become a piece of art ...
Demas Nwoko (born 1935) is a Nigerian artist, protean designer, architect and master builder. As an artist, he strives to incorporate modern techniques in architecture and stage design to enunciate African subject matter in most of his works.
ShakeShack-Madison Square Park. James Wines (born 1932) is an American artist and architect associated with environmental design.Wines is founder and president of SITE, [5] a New York City-based architecture and environmental arts organization chartered in 1970. [6]
Robert Morris, Observatorium, Netherlands. The growth of environmental art as a "movement" began in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In its early phases it was most associated with sculpture—especially Site-specific art, Land art and Arte povera—having arisen out of mounting criticism of traditional sculptural forms and practices that were increasingly seen as outmoded and potentially out ...
Ellen Harvey, New York Beautification Project (details), Forty 5" x 7" paintings in oil over graffiti, (2001). Ellen Harvey (born 1967) is an American-British conceptual artist known for her painting-based practice and site-specific works in installation, video, engraved mirrors, mosaic and glass.
Art and Objecthood. In Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Grau, Oliver Virtual Art, from Illusion to Immersion, MIT Press 2004, ISBN 0-262-57223-0 "Installation [Environment].Grove Art Encyclopedia. 2006. Grove Art Online. 30 January 2006 . "Installation." Oxford English Dictionary. 2006.
Architectural painting (also Architecture painting) is a form of genre painting where the predominant focus lies on architecture, including both outdoor and interior views. While architecture was present in many of the earliest paintings and illuminations, it was mainly used as background or to provide rhythm to a painting.
Organic architecture is a philosophy of architecture which promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world. This is achieved through design approaches that aim to be sympathetic and well-integrated with a site, so buildings, furnishings, and surroundings become part of a unified, interrelated composition.