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Someone told me Un Chien Andalou was Art Nouveau but it must be Surrealism, no?
Definitely key surrealism. Whether it employs Nouveau design in pursuit of that is another question. It's been forever since I saw it, and, honestly, the only thing I remember is the eyeball.
Caligari is famously Bauhaus in style, so both expressionist (as Sophia notes) and modernist.
Technically Gaudi is Nouveau but as, I think, Sylvie noted, it's kind of its own li'l wacky thing. (Which I love to death. My favorite architect.)
For me Art Nouveau is curvilinear, inspired by nature, stylized.
Art Deco is flatter, more geometrical, just as stylized. It eventually morphs into things like Streamline Moderne.
Dude!
honestly, the only thing I remember is the eyeball.
everybody talks about the effing eyeball. Nobody warned me about the ants. the ants! arrrgggh!
I just watched It's All Gone Pete Tong. Really liked it. It was one of my netflix movies that I forgot what it was about so it was a complete surprise.
The International: bleh.
Interesting (albeit a little too Children of Men in it's opening), then holy long boring action scene, then long boring talking scene, then the resolution is told in newspaper clippings. Bleh.
My History of Architecture professor loved loved loved Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts. He did great walking tours of LA (where we drove from site to site, because, hey, WALKING in LA).
About 3 years after meeting him I learned that he'd been a ball turret gunner in WWII. One of the few surviving ones, but his job involved dropping bombs on the Art Nouveau architecture of France.
Technically Gaudi is Nouveau but as, I think, Sylvie noted, it's kind of its own li'l wacky thing. (Which I love to death. My favorite architect.)
Oh, me too. I had to be dragged away from his cathedral when I visited Barcelona. (Loved his other stuff too. Also Miro, and Dali. Barcelona is so cool for just wandering around being surprised by sculpture in random places. There was this clock with the numbers dripping off it, just hanging around in the portico of a small office building. So cool, and I only saw it from the bus window. Still have no idea exactly where it is.)
Barcelona is so cool for just wandering around being surprised by sculpture in random places.
I will say that, for as much as Mayor Richard Daley I was an SOB and a total Machine political kingpin, he did a good thing by getting Picasso to design a statue for Chicago, since it kicked off the city getting some really fabulous public art. Not a lot of surreal stuff like your clock, bt, but we do have some cool things.
The Picasso sculpture is awesome! It rivals the Giant Silver Bean in awesomeness....
And it gets a big shout-out in both The Blues Brothers ("The Daley Center? Isn't that where they have the statue by Picasso?" as they zooooom past it) and The Fugitive ("He's in the plaza, walking past the Picasso!" as he heads for the St. Patrick's Day parade).
