The charm of these beautiful Lakes mirroring nature and multiplying our pleasure and all the vistas that they offer us give infinite variety to all before us.The tragic appearance of thick woods and gloomy forests, where the lack of light gives us the impression that nature is mourning and where the unpleasant noise of a stream surging from the depths of the earth makes us think that what we hear are groans, gives us the opposite sensation and make us sad. (查看原文)
It follows from these observations that to produce a sad, sombre impression, it is necessary to try to present, as I did in my funerary monuments, an architectural skeleton through the use of an absolutely bare wall and to convey an impression of buried architecture by using only low, sagging proportions buried in the earth; and, finally, by using light-absorbing materials, to create a black image of an architecture of shadows outlined by even darker shadows. (查看原文)
Boulless says, "I cannot think of any form of fantasic art without imagining aimless, unconnected ideas scattered here and here in no order, aberrations of the mind, in short, dreams." This is exactly...Boulless says, "I cannot think of any form of fantasic art without imagining aimless, unconnected ideas scattered here and here in no order, aberrations of the mind, in short, dreams." This is exactly what I felt after reading his text.
Besides, Helen Rosenau's rendition has flaws. Be careful with the terms such as "volume," "proportion," etc.(展开)
2 有用 foot 2016-12-20 11:23:47
Boulless says, "I cannot think of any form of fantasic art without imagining aimless, unconnected ideas scattered here and here in no order, aberrations of the mind, in short, dreams." This is exactly... Boulless says, "I cannot think of any form of fantasic art without imagining aimless, unconnected ideas scattered here and here in no order, aberrations of the mind, in short, dreams." This is exactly what I felt after reading his text. Besides, Helen Rosenau's rendition has flaws. Be careful with the terms such as "volume," "proportion," etc. (展开)
0 有用 惠山 2017-06-23 06:19:03
Architecture, Essay on Art
0 有用 Akyn 2019-12-16 01:38:24
很过分，图书馆里没有这本书，电子版也只有Boullee的Architecture, Essay on art 有些好奇作者前面是怎么叙述Boullee和视觉建筑的关系的