Baroque

            Baroque is a style where they include the emotions and drama in it. Baroque came in during the 1600 to 1750, in that time Religion have a great influence in art. For example, Renaissance period, which most of the art is talking about Christianity and it also inspired the Baroque art.  Actually, Baroque has started at Italy and spread all around the Europe. Baroque can be in the form of architect, sculpture, painting, or even a music.

Looking into the architecture, Basillica di Santa Maria della Salute, Venice. Longhena have create this wonderful Grand Canal and the large dome that covered the church, he also work with the light and shadow which is the main thing about the Baroque style.

Furthermore, if you look into the sculpture or painting it can extremely erotic.  There was a dynamic movement and energy of human forms in those sculptures. For example, The Escatasy of St Theresa by Gian Lorenzo, which I think is very amazing, the way how he create the movement in the sculpture that can’t move and also the lighting effect.

In my opinion, Baroque is consider as erotic. This type of art is the impressing the visitor or express themselves by using the art as the media, such as architect, music, and painting. If you look into the Baroque architecture it will have a huge entrance or a grand staircase to impress the visitor.  

Fordism- Postmoderism

Fordism- Postmodernism

        In this lecture, we have learn about Fordism, known as mass production. The word Ford came from Henry Ford, the car company. Actually during that time Ford was the biggest company that producing mass production. Being mass produced is similar to repeating things.Although Ford did not invented the car himself but he is the one who started the company, Ford, and manufactured the first car that people in America can pay for. We can say that he was the one who started the mass production. So Fordism is all about flow, fast, and repeating. 

         Moving in to architect, there is so many architects in this period of Fordism, such as Zaha Hadid, Patric Schimacher. Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehy and more. The building start to me more crazy, it is free form, no more straight line like modernism. Actually I think that Postmoderism, Fordism, Expressionism, any period but modernism are more challenging and interesting compare to Moderism. It is so boring that everything is in the straignght line, such as wall, door, winder, ceiling. If you take a look in another period, where there is an ornament and free form come into place, everything seem to be “more”. After seeing so many of architecture in different period, I start to disagree with “less is more.”