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The  duo exhibition Isamu Noguchi and Hiroshi Teshigahara ( Sogetsu Plaza, 1980.)

“Both my father Sofu and I knew Isamu well.  I heard from my father that Isamu once said, “If you set a pine, it should not  look like a pine. It is very difficult not to make it look like a pine, though.  Am I right, Sofu?” My father took the words very seriously because, I think, they  reflected Isamu’s original view of ikebana that the particularities of pine as  a material are supposed to have been digested and assimilated into the completed  ikebana work. I like these words very much, too.

Cuneiform tablet impressed with seal: account of payments to hired workers, Ancient Near Eastern Art

Medium: Clay

Purchase, 1886 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Building by Susan Hefuna, 2009, Guggenheim Museum

Size: 21.5x62.5 cm Medium: Ink on tracing paper, nine parts

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Guggenheim UBS MAP Purchase Fund and partial gift of the artist and Pi Artworks, 2015

The Chapel, 1917, Paul Klee

The lover, 1938, Paul Klee

Let’s appreciate the top-heaviness of this temple-type in Bulgaria:

Alexander Georgiev Barov: Ruse City Hall, Ruse, Bulgaria, 1985

http://www.sosbrutalism.org/cms/18194332  

Drawing sideboard (tavern window), Rafael Zabaleta

Cyclist, 1913, Natalia Goncharova