HUMOR%20IN%20ART%20and%20Architecture%20(shortened%20version)

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HUMOR IN ARTand Architecture(shortened version)

• by Don L. F. Nilsen
• and Alleen Pace Nilsen

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Public Art A Cockney in London
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Escher SketchA Parody of Art
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Picasso and Rhodan
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HUMOROUS ARCHITECTURE

• In Time magazines 1997 year-end summary of the
  best and the worst accomplishments, editors
  devoted a half-page to a twilight photo of the
  New York New York hotel, advertised as the
  Greatest City in Las Vegas. They wrote
• O.K., its a hoot, a building thats made to
  look like a jumble of buildings. This massive
  Las Vegas hotel with a Central Park-themed
  casino takes as its silhouette the Manhattan
  skyline and for good measure crams in Grants
  Tomb, Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty.
  Did we mention the Coney Island roller coaster?
  
• Tasteless, you say? We say, beyond tasteless.

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New York, New Yorkin Las Vegas, Nevada
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Here is another wonderful example of humor in
architectureTempes Upside Down Pyramid built
for our City Hall.
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• Heres an example of a waterfall that serves as
  its own source.

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His reptiles appear to crawl off the page and
change into living creatures.
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Self Portrait, Escher Style
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SALVADOR DALI (1904-1989)He depicted dream
worlds in which commonplace objects were
juxtaposed, deformed, or metamorphosed into
bizarre and irrational distortions.
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Notice how the perspective changes when the
picture is viewed from the side.

• At the same time Dali was distorting objects, he
  was filling them with realistic details and
  placing them into bleak, sunlit landscapes
  reminiscent of his Catalonian homeland.
• From this angle we are less likely to recognize
  the people sitting in the sand.

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Impressionism Van Goghs Starry Nightand David
Wiesners Art and Max
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ExpressionismEdvard Munchs The Scream and
Keanes Big Eyes
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Abstract ExpressionismJackson Pollock (Jack the
Dripper)
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MinimalismBrancusis Bird in Flight
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Maximalism (Gothic Cathedral)
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Dadaism or Found ArtDu Champss Fountain
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Realism Norman Rockwells Freedom from Want
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In Conclusion, Le Louvre A Story
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• A thief in Paris planned to steal some paintings
  from Le Louvre.
• He stole the paintings and put them in his van,
  but his van ran out of gas.
• When asked how he could mastermind such a crime
  and then make such a stupid mistake, he replied

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I had no Monet
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To buy Degas
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To make the Van Gogh
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I figured I had nothing Toulouse
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and I had De Gaulle to try it.