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Transforming Modern Architecture |
| Section: THE ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY |
| Author: Larry R. Thall |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 1,204 Words, 7,898 Characters |
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Mass was out, volume was in. Freed from the shackles of historical reference, Europe's architectural visionaries of the early to midtwentieth century declared the plane to be the basic geometric component of modern architecture. Through the use of planes, volume could be expressed. Furthermore, color--most often primary pigments--could define a plane. The architect would contain the stark boldness of primary colors by surrounding them with broad expanses of white, gray, and black.
Nevertheless, no notions of color conceived by the Gropius people, or their Post-Modernist successors, could adequately prepare the contemporary viewer for his first encounter with the architectural series of photographs of Barbara Kasten. The palettes even of Bauhaus School favorites Paul Klee and Wassily K...
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... roughly the same amount of time as previous Constructs series, and reportedly the Madonna della Strada photograph will be her last architectural image. What Kasten does next remains to be seen, but given her track record, it surely will challenge viewers' accepted notions of perception through what Kandinsky called "a rhythm displayed between harmonies and the contrasts of color and form." vbcrlf
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