humor in art and architecture
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HUMOROUS ARCHITECTURE• In Time magazine’s 1997 year-end summary of the
“best” and the “worst” accomplishments, editors devoted a half-page to a twilight photo of the New York New York hotel, advertised as “the Greatest City in Las Vegas.” They wrote:
• “O.K., it’s a hoot, a building that’s made to look like a jumble of buildings. This massive Las Vegas hotel with a ‘Central Park-themed’ casino takes as its silhouette the Manhattan skyline and for good measure crams in Grant’s Tomb, Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. Did we mention the Coney Island roller coaster?”
• “Tasteless, you say? We say, beyond tasteless.”
Here is another wonderful example of humor in architecture—Tempe’s Upside
Down Pyramid built for our City Hall.
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SALVADOR DALI (1904-1989)He depicted dream worlds in which commonplace objects were juxtaposed, deformed, or metamorphosed into bizarre
and irrational distortions.
Notice how the perspective changes when the picture is viewed from the side.
• At the same time Dali was distorting objects, he was filling them with realistic details and placing them into bleak, sunlit landscapes reminiscent of his Catalonian homeland.
• From this angle we are less likely to recognize the people sitting in the sand.
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• A thief in Paris planned to steal some paintings from Le Louvre.
• He stole the paintings and put them in his van, but his van ran out of gas.
• When asked how he could mastermind such a crime and then make such a stupid mistake, he replied:
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