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Relationship Between The Body And The City 's Building

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The symposium then explored the relationship between the body and the city’s building in more depth with Adam Greenhalgh’s paper Body/Building: New York City around 1910. The associate curator of the National Gallery of Art in Washington presented once more Manhattan as a living body, and his interpretation of Excavations at night as an autopsy of the city conveys a powerful image of the city being exposed and vulnerable like Miss Bentham. Mr Greenhalgh confessed that he tends to see the grim side of Bellows, therefore his interpretation of his paintings does have a darker interpretation as he desires to seek for a deeper and darker meaning than just the simple representation of a reality. His analysis of Kids, River Rats and Forty-two …show more content…

Arguably Marin suffers the influences of the European futurists who are just emerging in Europe during this period, which can imply that Bellows, like other Ashcanners and the French Impressionists, did involuntarily start the concept of dynamism and its application in their paintings. From the macabre description of New York and some of his inhabitants and the thermodynamic of some of Bellows paintings, the symposium proceeded under a different note that still analysed the body in relation to movement, in particular the female body in commercial art. Professor Jennifer Greenhill presented her paper Commercial Illustration’s Immaterial Bodies which focused on the commercial artist Coles Phillips and this imagery for the mass press where design is vital to attract any potential buyers. It was illuminating to discover this artist and some of his most characteristic works created with a fade-away technique where the body of women disappears in the background so dematerialising their bodies. Prof Greenhill provided an excellent overview of the artist as well as his technique and showed many eye-catching images that are still incredibly powerful in terms of graphic and design. Coles Phillips was a lawyer, a painter, but most importantly a graphic designer and his preferred technique was the watercolour; his pictorial technique consists in

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