Art, Architecture and the Human Figure
The English caricature artist Jonathan Cusick draws with a wit and superb technical ability that make his work fun, beautiful and contagious with delight.
Here Cusick draws the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe appearing like a genie from his Barcelona Chair.
Mies believed that furniture should fit the body and it was a discipline with its own set of rules and was distinct from architecture. By comparison, FL Wright believed that Furniture and Architecture were the same discipline. For instance, Wright’s dining room table and the chairs with their vertical slats were not so much a place to comfortably eat but the chair backs were a vertical screen that created a volume over the flat horizontal plane that is the table top. Being seated in FL Wright chair in a FL Wright dining room is being committed to the architecture in a not very comfortable way. The chairs do not fit the body like Mies’s Brno chairs do. Something to think about.
Jonathan Cusick’s website
#jonathancusick #caricature #barcelonachair #madelonvreisendorp #moma #peterpalumbo #dirklohan #miesvanderrohe #lincolnparkchicago #winnetka #westtown #hydeparkchicago #farnsworthhouse
The English caricature artist Jonathan Cusick draws with a wit and superb technical ability that make his work fun, beautiful and contagious with delight.
Here Cusick draws the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe appearing like a genie from his Barcelona Chair.
Mies believed that furniture should fit the body and it was a discipline with its own set of rules and was distinct from architecture. By comparison, FL Wright believed that Furniture and Architecture were the same discipline. For instance, Wright’s dining room table and the chairs with their vertical slats were not so much a place to comfortably eat but the chair backs were a vertical screen that created a volume over the flat horizontal plane that is the table top. Being seated in FL Wright chair in a FL Wright dining room is being committed to the architecture in a not very comfortable way. The chairs do not fit the body like Mies’s Brno chairs do. Something to think about.
Jonathan Cusick’s website
#jonathancusick #caricature #barcelonachair #madelonvreisendorp #moma #peterpalumbo #dirklohan #miesvanderrohe #lincolnparkchicago #winnetka #westtown #hydeparkchicago #farnsworthhouse