Frank Gehry

 Frank Gehry was born in Toronto, Ontario,Canada in 1929.He is a architect that designs furniture and buildings. He does his designs in his own style of deconstructed architecure. I find that most of his designs for furniture are done in a biological curvy way and his buildings are designed in abstract way.

His buildings are much different than regular modern buildings of today. He works on large scales. Though the fist part of his career started out in a pratice, Frank O. Gehry and Associates in 1963. Which followed to the firm Gehry & Krueger Inc. Which employed a large number of senior architects who had extensive experience in the technical development of building systems and construction documents, and who are highly qualified in the management of complex projects.

After that he changed his career to an artistically directed atelier. His deconstructed architectural style began in the late 1970s.
Much of Gehry's work falls within the style of Deconstructivism , which is also referred to as post-structuralist in nature for its ability to go beyond current modalities of structural definition. Deconstructivism now spreads through the field of architecture and has influenced almost every contemporary architect in the world. Gehry is best known for his curvy, metallic wave-form museums in Bilbao, Seattle, Los Angeles and Minneapolis, but it all started with strange impulses applied to his own traditional little Santa Monica house in the late 1970s. Frank Gehry’s house in Santa Monica came before its time as a harbinger of the Deconstructivist movement.

 Deconstructivist structures are not required to reflect specific social or universal ideas, such as speed or universality of form, and they do not reflect a belief that form follows function. Gehry's own Santa Monica residence is a commonly cited example of deconstructivist architecture, as it was so drastically divorced from its original context, and in such a manner as to subvert its original spatial intention.






 

God Save the Queen says Jamie Reid

God Save the Queen 1977 music cover Design

The image is what a punk rock group called the 'Sex Pistols' had Jamie Reid design on one of their CD covers.The surprising features of this image is that it is a head shot of the queen which has been defaced. This today wouldn't be look at as a bad thing, but when it was created in 1977 it was very out of the ordinary. So when the CD and the cover went public it was noticed.

I believe the image was made through a series of Newsprint, Photocopying, ink, and paper collage. The reason for their choice in material and images I would think would be because it was new and would have an impact on their popularity to the media.
The message the actual art I think is giving is the queen has no real opinion in what she sees or says. I don't like the piece itself but I do like the style in which it is done.

 

Jamie Reid is one person that didn't just push the envelope, he ripped striaght through it and still tried to give to the post office. He I think started a shift in what was presentable and not. He was one of the first people to deface the queen in the name of a cd cover album for the "Sex Pistols".

He was born in 1947 in England. He is not only known for his art but also as Jamie Reid the English anarchist with connections to the Situationists. His work, featuring letters cut from newspaper headlines in the style of a ransom note. He came close to defining the image of punk rock, particularly in the UK.