Late 19th Century

Sculpture, Architecture, and Decorative Arts in the West

STYLE ARTISTS and IMAGES VOCAB

STYLE

• Revival Style architecture
• Skyscrapers (steel skeleton, piers, spandrels, functional core of elevators, stairs, ventilation)
• form follows function and reflects cultural conditions
  • industrialization
  • democracy
• belgian Gesamtkunstwerk

ARTISTS and IMAGES

Sculpture
Architecture
Art Nouveau

Sculpture
Auguste Rodin Walking Man 1877/1905
Architecture
Barry and Pugin The Houses of Parliament London 1840s
Richard Morris Hunt The Breakers Newport, Rhode Island 1892-1895
Gustave Eiffel The Eiffel Tower Paris, France 1887-1889
Louis Sullivan Guaranty Building Buffalo 1894-1895
Louis Sullivan Carson, Pirie, Scott Department Store Chicago 1899-1904
Art Nouveau
Victor Horta Van Eetvelde House Brussels 1895
Antoni Gaudi Casa Mila Barcelona 1905-1910

VOCAB

primitivism
skyscrapers
steel skeleton
piers
spandrels
functional core (elevators, stairs, ventilation)
Art Nouveau

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