Inspirations for this Project

China
-limitless colors
-commotion, business
-energy
-lights

YOU TUBE LINKS:
nanjing road
big coke

Mondrian
-emphasis of the primary colors
-color relationships
-lines constructed with awareness creating rhythm
-simplification of forms


Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie-Woogie 1942-1943, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Kandinsky
-uses of color
-philosophies on inner necessity
-spirit and outlook on human emotion
-interest in color symbolism and color psychology


Wassily Kandinsky's Composition VII, 1913. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord


"All that was once directly lived has become mere representation." -Nicholson-Smith translation, thesis 1.
"The decline of being into having, and having into merely appearing." -Ibid., thesis 17.
"The spectacle is not a collection of images, rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images."

Dziga Vertov - Man With a Movie Camera

-excitement and passion for a growing city
-unique angles of a city
-portraying human interaction with the city



The Industrial Revolution, late 18th and 19th Century
-move from a static society to a bustling one
-machinery and factories
-spirit of invention
-excitement of building and creating