Berenice Abbott
Giovanni Canal
Frank Gehry
Marsden Hartley
Louis Lozowick
Mexico (Nayarit)
David Nash
Georgia O'Keeffe
Vincent van Gogh
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Questions/Activities Most people who see the Weisman Art Museum have strong reactions to the building and its design. Whether the reaction is positive or negative, it is valuable to think about what makes this building so surprising. The Weisman Art Museum has been described as: a plane crash, an exploding silver artichoke, a frozen waterfall, and a Mardi Gras mask. Can you think of other descriptions? If this building could talk, what do you think it would say? |
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Compare this building to others in your community
or in the state (such as the State Capitol building in St. Paul or
the IDS building in downtown Minneapolis). Describe how the Weisman
is different or the same in the following categories:
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References Anderson, Kurt. "Building Beauty the Hard Way," Time.
(October 13, 1986), 108-109. The Architecture of Frank Gehry, Minneapolis: Walker Art
Center with Rizzoli International, 1986. Arnell, Peter and Ted Bickford, Frank Gehry: Buildings and
Projects. New York: Rizzoli, 1985. Gehry, Frank O, "Frank O. Gehry Talks on His Works: The Lecture
in Tokyo 1985," Architecture and Urbanism, 194 ( 1986),
61-66. Jencks, Charles, "Frank Gehry-The Deconstructionist," Art
& Design, I:4 (May 1985) 14-19. McGuigan, Cathleen, "A Maverick Master: Frank Gehry and His Renegade California Style are Going Global," Newsweek, (June 17, 1991), 52-57. [ Return to the TOP of the page ] |
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