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mustamakkara
An even more reduced and abstracting look at the Masonry Hall of the School of Design Basel and its concrete #shapes, #textures and #shades.

Could maybe be titled "Not so sad triangles of 50 shades of grey" ;)

10.5.2025 | #Fujifilm x10 | 19 mm | f/4 | 1/500s | ISO200

More about the Masonry Hall:
https://heartbrut.com/compendium/masonryhall/

#texturetuesday #architecture #brutalism #modern #minimalism #modernism #urbanexploration #urban #monochromemonday #minimalism #abstraction #geometry #amateurphotography #photography #pixelfed #basel #switzerland #design #designschool #PhotoMonday #FotoMontag #experimenting #art #photooftheday
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mustamakkara
Immersed in studies...
... or just having a break?

Following up on the School of Design Basel from the previous post. This shot shows the side wall of the famous "Maurerhalle/Masonry Hall" (pictures coming soon). Trying to find some lines and compositional elements in this rather simple, peaceful scene...

10.5.2025 | #Fujifilm x10 | 25mm | f/5 | 1/500s | ISO200

More about Basel's Brutalist architecture:
https://heartbrut.com/compendium/masonryhall/
https://heartbrut.com/8-brutalist-icons-basel-art-architecture-lovers/

#architecture #brutalism #modern #modernism #streetphotography #urbanexploration #urban #saturday #study #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw #blackandwhitephotography #amateurphotography #photography #pixelfed #artofpixelfed #basel #switzerland #design #designschool
The image shows two students sitting at separate concrete tables in an outdoor modernist space. A concrete building with horizontal windows serves as the backdrop. Trees are visible on the right side of the composition, creating contrast with the stark architectural elements.
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“What is remarkable is that Muir did not become a social realist, like W.H. Auden, Cecil Day-Lewis, Stephen Spender, and other related British poets during the 1930s, who didn’t know anything close to what Muir knew directly about urban poverty”

—Andrew Frisardi on the life & work of Edwin Muir

@litstudies

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sacredweb.com/volume-51/the-go

Sacred Web · The Good Life of Edwin MuirIn Muir’s political poetry, history is reimagined as an internal event. Muir depicted our time as one of transition, an interregnum of civilization, during which the danger is great that we can forget altogether the meanings and associations that make specifically human life possible.
#Scottish#literature#poem
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Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

"The Cathedrals of Broadway," Florine Stettheimer, 1929.

I've featured Stettheimer (1871-1944) before, so no point in going over her biography, except to note that she was not only a painter, but a designer of theatrical sets and costumes.

This Modernist painting shows her theatrical roots. She's got neon signs, a proscenium arch, a ticket window, ushers, the whole works. It's a neon-lit fantasia of the real "cathedrals" of Broadway, giving escapist entertainment to people of the Depression.

It's very much its own thing, being partly representational but also bizarrely surreal, echoing the work of Chagall.

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A modern painting. In the center of the canvas, dominated by reds and golds, we have a screen showing newsreel footage of New York Mayor Jimmy Walker throwing the first pitch of the baseball season. It's in a golden arch of a theater proscenium, with a clock at the top and various classical decorations around it. Around it in the upper half of the canvas float neon signs of assorted Broadway theaters, like the Strand, the Rialto, and the Roxy. In the lower half we see people arriving at a theater, people at a ticket window, a row of ushers, and a sign that reads "Silence."
#Art#FlorineStettheimer#Modernism
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