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Unité d'habitation, Berlin

Steve White

2020 • Netherlands • Acrylic on Linen

39 x 28 in

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Steve White

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Medium : Acrylic on Linen
Other details : Artwork on wood. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
Dimensions : 39.4x27.6in

About this artwork

After the war West Berlin watched enviously as East Berlin, with considerable help from the USSR, rapidly built much needed, high density affordable housing. In 1952 celebrated Swiss/French architect Le Corbusier (real name Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887-1965) had just completed his Unité d'habitation in Marseille, arguably the most famous social housing project in the world, and was invited to submit plans for a site in the suburbs of west Berlin.… The site chosen lay between the Olympic Stadium and a collosal pile of rubble, the ruins of the demolished city.

The colours of the exterior of Unité Berlin were designed by Corbusier together with the French painter Fernand Léger. The simple coloured panels with the diagonal slash are hardly artistically ground breaking but, together with the coloured awnings, they render the building much easier on the eye than an unremitting diet of beige cladding.
Would make a good combination with another of the artist's Berlin posters.

Steve White

Netherlands

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Experienced Artist
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« MODERN ART = I COULD DO THAT + YEAH BUT YOU DIDN'T. -Craig Damrauer »

Steve White, a painter based in the Netherlands, has extensively exhibited his works nationally, as well as in the United Kingdom. While he appreciates that art can stir emotions and have great meaning for people, he has a more practical approach to creation. For example, one of the tests he does for his own works is simple - he asks himself, "Would this look good over someone's sofa?". White's abstract realist compositions also combine elements of minimalism.

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