City Art

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City Art
Paris Street Rainy Day
(1877) Gustave Caillebotte, Art Institute of
Chicago
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First Cities
2003 Exhibit The Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC
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UR

• Ur was the capital of an empire stretching
  across southern Mesopotamia. (today-Tell
  el-Muqayyar, Iraq) Excavations at Ur undertaken
  from 192234 by a joint expedition of The British
  Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum,
  Philadelphia, uncovered a settlement of mud-brick
  temples dating to 4000 B.C. At the edge of the
  sacred area a cemetery grew up, which included
  burials known today as the Royal Graves. An area
  of ordinary people's houses was excavated in
  which a number of street corners have small
  shrines. The largest surviving religious
  buildings, dedicated to the moon god Nanna.

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Troy

• Troy is one of the most famous sites in the
  western world largely through its association
  with Homer's epic tale of the Iliad. Two main
  phases of the site date to the third millennium
  B.C. 3000 B.C., Two gateways flanked by massive
  towers gave access to the settlement. Houses
  inside the walls are much larger than in the
  earlier phase and are constructed of massive
  stones. It is, however, the wealth of objects
  from Troy II that has made it legendary. These
  are important because they demonstrate an
  extensive trade network that linked Troy with
  other sites in Anatolia, the Cyclades, and the
  Greek mainland

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Nippur

• Nippur, the religious center of Mesopotamia,
  lies in the desert, a hundred miles south of
  Baghdad. Sumerian literary compositions have been
  found at Nippur, and the remains of a temple
  dedicated to the queen of heaven, Inanna.
  Archeological excavations (1888, 1948) revealed
  numerous rebuildings of the temple, one upon the
  other, dating from 3200 B.C. to A.D. 100.

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Mohenjo-daro

• South Asia's first cities were established
  around 2600 B.C. in what is now Pakistan and
  northwestern India.
• Mohenjo-daro grew up along a trade routes as an
  administrative and ritual center. The city was
  built on a grid pattern with different walled
  sectors or mounds, oriented in different
  directions. Towering high above the plain, with
  fired brick gateways and mud-brick walls, the
  city would have been a landmark, visible for many
  miles. Inhabited continuously for more than seven
  hundred years, the city was home rulers supported
  by artisans, traders, and farmers.

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City Life Images
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Eiffel Tower(actual and orphed)
Gustave Eiffel (bottom), accompanied by a
collaborator Mr. Salles, at the summet of the
tower. 1889
Robert Delaunay (1885-1941) Tour Eiffel La Tour
rouge, 1911,
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paintings by Guerin for Daniel Burnham's Plan of
Chicago, 1909
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Beaux-Arts

• The academic classical architectural style
  taught at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris in
  the second half of the 19th C. Grand and lush,
  the style was perfectly attuned to the mood of
  Europe and North America

• Palais Garnier, Opéra de Paris or,1875

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New York Public Library

• Carrère and Hastings, the firm of John Mervin
  Carrère and Thomas Hastings in New York City, was
  one of the outstanding Beaux-Arts architecture
  firms in the United States

One-time governor Samuel J. Tilden
(1814-1886),upon his death bequeathed the bulk
of his fortune-- about 2.4 million -- to
"establish and maintain a free library and
reading room in the city of New York.
Official dedication of the Library May 23, 1911.
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Art Institute of Chicago
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• Art Institute of Chicago
• Formerly The Allerton Building?
• Construction Start 1892?Completed 1893 This
  grand building was erected for the Worlds
  Columbian Exposition as the World's Congress
  Auxiliary Building, with the intent that the Art
  Institute occupy the space after the fair closed.
  designed by the Boston firm of Shepley, Rutan and
  Coolidge

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The White City (in more ways than one)
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Ida B. Wells
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Art Nouveau

• Art Deco is an elegant style of decorative art,
  design and architecture that began as a Modernist
  reaction to the Art Nouveau style (characterized
  by intricately detailed patterns of curving lines
  and is rooted in the British Arts Crafts
  movement of William Morris). Art decos elegance
  and sleekness of line, replaced the voluptuous
  beaux arts style.

Paris, France 9 Rue Vavin door (art deco)
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• Chrysler Building NYC in a Jim Buckels-lithograph

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• Art Deco decoration on side of Radio City Music
  Hall

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• The Pacific Stock Exchange Lunch Club
  (1930-1987), now The City Club, is considered the
  best interior in the Art Deco style in San
  Francisco

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Grand Central Terminal

• 1913?Reed and Stern and Warren and Wetmore,
  architects?New York, New York

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classicist
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• Kay Sage (1898-1963)
• I Saw Three Cities, 1944
• Oil on canvas
• Princeton University Art Museum

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For next weeks book Dream and Stones
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A Lot To Look At
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LuEllen Joy Giera
http//www.planetcollage.com/
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Peter JacobsThe Great Divide trilogy

• Opposing Forces

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Pablo Picasso
Guitar collage
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?Pablo Picasso?

• Guitar and Sheet Music 1912

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Hannah Hoch

• Hochfinanz (High Finance)1923
• Photomontage With Collage

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Raoul Hausmann Dada Collage
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Kurt Schwitters
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Janice Elkins

• City Collage

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Rachelle Woo Chuang

• Texture of the City 2003