Louis Sullivan

Examples of Louis Sullivan in the following topics:

• Modern Architecture: Form Follows Function

  • Modern architecture adhered to Louis Sullivan's famous precept, "Form follows function," which called for an absence of ornamentation beyond functional necessity.
  • The great 19th century architect of skyscrapers, Louis Sullivan, promoted an overriding precept to architectural design: "Form follows function".
  • Explain Louis Sullivan's adage, "Form follows function," and its influence on modern architecture

• Changes in Technology

  • The notion that "Form follows function," a dictum originally expressed by Frank Lloyd Wright's early mentor Louis Sullivan, meaning that the result of design should derive directly from its purpose
  • A further development was that of the steel-framed skyscraper in Chicago, introduced around 1890 by William Le Baron Jenney and Louis Sullivan.
  • The work of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright in Chicago, Victor Horta in Brussels, Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona, Otto Wagner and the Vienna Secession in Austria, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow, among many others, can be seen as a common struggle between old and new.

• Chicago School of Architecture

  • Beman, and Louis Sullivan.
  • Frank Lloyd Wright started in the firm of Adler and Sullivan but created his own Prairie Style of architecture.

• Gothic Architecture: La Saint-Chapelle

  • Louis IX ruled during the so-called "golden century of Saint Louis," when the Kingdom of France was at its height of power in Europe, both politically and economically.
  • Louis' personal chapel, La Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, was copied more than once by his descendants elsewhere.
  • Louis, ca. 1300 from the church of Mainneville, Eure, France
  • Louis IX, or Saint Louis, was a revered leader and strong patron of the arts during the Gothic period.
  • Saint Louis' Sainte-Chapelle epitomizes the Rayonnant Gothic style as was King Louis IX's personal chapel.

• French Architecture in the Baroque Period: Versailles

  • The Palace of Versailles was built during King Louis XIV's reign and contains 700 rooms, extensive gardens, and lavish decoration.
  • The Palace of Versailles is an opulent palace built by Louis XIV that contains 700 rooms, extensive gardens, and lavish decoration.
  • Initially a small hunting lodge built by his father, Louis XIV transformed Versailles with four intensive building campaigns over his reign.
  • The Palace of Versailles was executed in the French Baroque style by architect Louis Le Vau, a French Classical architect who worked for King Louis XIV.
  • The Grande Commande is a series of 24 statues that were commissioned by Louis XIV to decorate the gardens.

• French Painting in the Baroque Period

  • The reign of Louis XIV saw a shift from Mannerist and Baroque styles popular in the early part of the century, during the reign of Louis XIII, toward a more prescribed Classical style.
  • He was made "premier peintre du Roi" by Louis XIII, who commissioned numerous works from him.
  • Le Brun worked primarily for Louis XIV, and his most important works reside at the Palace of Versailles.
  • He spent most of his life working in Rome and became a favorite painter of King Louis XIV.
  • Charles Le Brun worked primarily for King Louis XIV, and his most important works reside at the Palace of Versailles.

• Artistic Conventions in Painting

  • The works of Jaques-Louis David are widely considered to be the epitome of Neoclassical painting; many painters combined aspects of Romanticism with a vaguely Neoclassical style before David's success, but these works did not strike any chords with audiences.
  • Neoclassical painting gained new momentum with the great success of Jaques-Louis David's "Oath of the Haratii" at the Paris Salon of 1785 .
  • Neoclassical painting gained new momentum with the great success of Jaques-Louis David's "Oath of the Haratii" at the Paris Salon of 1785.

• Architecture

  • The first phase of neoclassicism in France is expressed in the "Louis XVI style" of architects like Ange-Jacques Gabriel (Petit Trianon, 1762–68).
  • Château of the Petit Trianon in the park at Versailles, designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, demonstrating the neoclassical architectural style under Louis XVI.
  • Discuss the characteristics of the "Louis XVI style" and the Directoire style of Neoclassical architecture in France.

• Post-Painterly Abstraction

  • Examples of Post-Painterly Abstractionists include Hard-Edged Painters such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella who explored relationships between tightly-ruled shapes and edges, and Color-Field Painters such as Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis , who explored the tactile and optical aspects of large, open fields of pure color.
  • The 31 artists who participated in Clement Greenberg's LACMA exhibit included Walter Darby Bannard, Jack Bush, Gene Davis, Thomas Downing, Friedel Dzubas, Paul Feeley, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Al Held, Ellsworth Kelly, Nicholas Krushenick, Alexander Liberman, Morris Louis, Arthur Fortescue McKay, Howard Mehring, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Ray Parker, David Simpson, Albert Stadler, Frank Stella, Mason Wells, Emerson Woelffer, and a number of other American and Canadian artists who were becoming well known in the 1960s.

• Hawaiian Art with Western Influences

  • Notable artists include sculptor Satoru Abe (born Hawaii 1926-), sculptor Bumpei Akaji (born Hawaii 1921-2002), sculptor Marguerite Louis Blasingame (born Hawaii 1906-1947), ceramicist Sally Fletcher-Murchison (born Hawaii 1933-), Joseph Nawahi (born Hawaii 1842-1896), Reuben Tam (born Hawaii 1916-1991), Isami Doi (born Hawaii 1903-1965), and others.
  • Sculptor Marguerite Louis Blasingame is one of the many 19th century artists who incorporates both Hawaiian and western themes in her art.