The Surrealism art movement with its imaginary worlds and creatures, often created by distorting everyday and illogical objects and scenes, developed in the early 1920’s by artists such as Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali and Max Ernst. Exploring the subconscious, there were feminist accusations that the movement often played to masculine stereotypes; on the other hand […]
The well-known international artist Loiuse Bourgeois died three years ago at the grand age of 99. Her career therefore spanned almost the entire 20th century, though she only became well-known in her 70′s. Her work is celebrated at two exhibitions in Edinburgh, at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and at the Fruitmarket Gallery. […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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