Buildings

So today I went on a massive field trip to the main art galleries/buildings in DC and got a good chunk of stuff we could use. Some themes I kept thinking about: presentation of buildings/"spaces" (relevant to our space) and creation/depiction of characters. Instead of making one giant mega-post, I'll try to divide it into individual posts as coherently as possible. I'll start with buildings.

"The Lone Tenement," George Bellows



"The Fence," Camille Pissarro

"Building Facades," Jean Dubuffet


The last is an installation by Edward and Nancy Kienholz called "Sollie 17." The outside is of an old tenement hall or something:

You can poke your head in the open door and look into this dirty, rotting, cramped room with the sculpture of an old man (his face is a black and white photo) in three positions: sitting on his bed playing solitaire, staring out the window, and reading a book with his hand down his undies. A pretty fascinating but depressing depiction of living/aging in isolation: