Houses As Art

The house and the home are a recurring theme in art and this page explores the varying representations we have found.

Houses As Sculpture

A celebration of art projects where the house is both the subject and the canvas.

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  'House With Windows'. An intricate folly in the Canadian forest by Richard Greaves

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  'House' Rachel Whiteread 1993 - Wennington Green, East London

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  Casa Sperimentale (experimental house) 1969 Fregeme, Italy. Architect Giuseppe Perugini’s Brutalist exploration of ideas pertaining to form and space.

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  A House For Essex, by artist Grayson Perry

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  The Upside Down House is just one of a series of installations of concept houses that explore this strange perspective on housing.

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  'Fifth Ward Jam' - an art project by Dan Havel and Dean Ruck in Houston, Texas

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  'Transitional Object (PsychoBarn)' - British artist Cornelia Parker's 2016 recreation of the house from Psycho on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

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  The Red House Pavillion, A collaboration by architects Clancy Moore, TAKA, Steve Larkin and Hall McKnight at King’s Cross built For the 2015 London Festival of Architecture

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  The 'Neverwas Haul' - a three-story, self-propelled mobile art vehicle built to resemble a Victorian house on wheels

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  'The Shark House', Oxford

Houses In Painting

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  'House in the Ward' Lawren Harris. c.1920.

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  'Adelaide Road, Hampstead, London' by Henry Silk of The 'East London Group'

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  'Harold Gilman's House at Letchworth' 1912 by Spencer Gore from his series of paintings of Letchworth

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  'Early Sunday Morning' Edward Hopper 1930

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  'The House Of Guardaboschi' Gustav Klimt 1912

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  'Farringdon Road' Cecil Osborne 1930

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  'Crow Wood' 2015 by self taught British artist John Caple

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  'Windows' by Egon Schiller 1918

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  The Backs of Houses, Harley Street by Algernon Cecil Newton 1925 (@MuseumofLondon).

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  Greenway, Devon. By Julian Barrow 1999. Home of Agatha Christie and used as a location in Poirot

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  A Country House by Moonlight - Wilfred Jenkins (1857-1936)

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  'Red House' by Paul Klee. Abstract impressionism from 1929

Houses Of Colour

Thismsection of the wiki focuses on he use of colour for abstract artistic intent ( as opposed to creative use of colour for decorative purposes which is covered in Multi-Coloured Homes

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  Black Houses

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  Blue Houses

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  The Striped House, Kensington

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/the-amazing-art-on-these-communist-era-houses-was-a-rebellion-back-then/

http://offbeathome.com/2011/07/weird-house-colors

Houses With Surface Decoration

In each of these beautiful examples the home has become a blank canvas for an artists creative inspiration.

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  Danielle Jacqui, Pont-de-l'Etoile, France mirror & ceramic fragments, tiles, paintings all attached to a village house near Marseille.

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  Courtyard Of The Elements This house in Dresden, Germany plays music when it rains.

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  'Casa Batlló, Barcelona by Antoni Gaudi Remodelled from an older house in 1904 and known locally as the 'House of Bones'

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  ' The Treatment Rooms' a mosaic covered art collective house in Chiswick West London

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  THe ' Egyptian House', Penzance, Cornwall built in 1835 in a style that was in fashion after Napoleon's campaign in Egypt in 1798.

Street & Neighbourhood Art Projects

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http://creativetimereports.org/2013/10/07/rick-lowe-project-row-houses/

https://heidelbergorg.presencehost.net

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/mad-homes-houses-turned-into-i-151764

http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e5479.html

http://opentravel.com/blogs/15-strangest-houses-from-around-the-globe/

Other Interesting Web Sites

http://www.walkerart.org/magazine/2014/housing-art-n55-project-row-houses-rural-stud

See Also In Chimni

ChimniWiki Page: Multi-Coloured Homes

ChimniWiki Page: Upside Down Houses

ChimniWiki Page: Red Houses

ChimniWiki Page: Blue Houses

ChimniWiki Page: Black Houses

References

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