Thursday, 25 November 2010

The Art Nouveau of Japan.

If I had the software out here, I would certainly enhance this awful photograph I had barely no time to take. I wish it showed it more clearly, but when I saw this building I immediately thought of the Art Nouveau era, and in particular, Rene Macintosh. I very much doubt that it`s Macintosh inspired, but it made me think about some of the similarities between the art era and some of the Japanese art and design that I`ve seen throughout Tokyo so far. It`s the repetition of the elongated, rectangular shapes on this building that really reminded me of Macintosh, similar to this street lamp below, which also reminded me slightly of Art Nouveau, with the contrasting geometric, repeated rectangles with the large curve and smaller curls of detail.

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