Nicholas Fox Weber's Blog, page 23
July 22, 2013
Interaction of Color App
Interaction of Color by Josef Albers App
http://yupnet.org/interactionofcolor/
July 18, 2013
Acropolis of Athens
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier), sketch of the “Acropolis of Athens”, on his journey to the East, September, 1911
July 17, 2013
Nicholas Fox Weber and Massimo Vignelli, July 2013
Nicholas Fox Weber and Massimo Vignelli in Milan, July 2013
Le Corbusier Paris Watercolor, 1917
On Le Corbusier
He went to Paris and he painted.
He loved the sights of the city
He got special keys that enabled him to climb around the steeples of Notre Dame.
Paris, Watercolor, 1917
July 10, 2013
Le Corbusier and Josephine Baker
(Josephine) Baker and Le Corbusier had been seeing a lot of each other on board the Giulio Cesare…
Le Corbusier aboard the Giulio Cesare en route to São Paulo, via Montevideo, November, 1929
–Le Corbusier: A Life
July 9, 2013
Le Corbusier and Albert Einstein
On Le Corbusier from video lecture, Slovenia,http://videolectures.net/unfinishedmodernisations2012_fox_weber_corbusier/
After the war he went to America and he met Einstein. What gets to me about this photograph is that Corbu describes himself being “starved, sick and miserable” after the war while Einstein was well fed and well taken care of and yet when you look at the picture who’s got the immaculate clothing and looks in quite good shape and who looks disheveled of the two of them?
1946, Princeton, New Jersey
July 8, 2013
R. Buckminster Fuller
Called “4D,” it (the show, at Harvard) was devoted to the designs of a young man called Richard B. Fuller—known later as R. Buckminster Fuller. “4-D” was a reference to the fourth dimension, since Fuller’s designing method was from the inside out. The structure that demonstrated that method was called “the Dymaxion House,” its name a combination of “dynamic” and “maximum.”
–Patron Saints
Buckminster Fuller with model of his Dymaxion House, photograph in the Boston Globe, May 20, 1929
July 1, 2013
The Steins & The Cones
In the two decades preceding the depression, a few daring collectors—often guided by painters—bought recent European painting. The Americans who patronized modernism while living abroad
—Gertrude and Leo Stein, and the Cone sisters—at first had little effect in their native land, but others did. It was to some of these people that Kirstein, Walker and Warburg were able to turn for loans.
–Patron Saints
June 27, 2013
A. Everett (Chick) Austin, Jr
A. Everett (Chick) Austin, Jr., the genius director of the Wadsworth Atheneum, mounting the first museum exhibitions of works by Picasso, Miro, Tanguy, and Dali, and hosting the world premier of Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and Frederick Ashton’s Four Saints in Three Acts, as well as Balanchine’s first American ballet, Alma Mater.
Austin Home, Hartford CT
