PSYC 2000 Chapter : Module 6
Document Summary
Landscape painting people or buildings engulfed by the surrounds (romantic style) sublime moments of things. Issues to deal with: struggle to just build something, to just build something beautiful, 1820"s = stone buildings, coming to terms with all the european ideas. Inventions: bare landscape, ruins, looks like craters in the ground, circles, greek timino"s (sacred place, nature is chaotic and unpredictable. If order exists it must come from somewhere other than nature. The believed order came from above and that this should be mimicked in architecture. Ideal, perfect form: this wasn"t common thoughts of native americans more primitive, taos pueblo, staying in touch with the ground, adobe, heavy material, found in desert climate because there are no trees. Labor intensive process sunbaked mud bricks that are stacked and coated with more mud that dries in the sun. O"keefe and he went with her out west: san xavier del bac (near tuscan, copies what the priests remembered from europe.
