Sidney Opera House

Hi! Today i’m going to talk about a building I like: Sidney Opera House.One of the most famous buildings of the 20^th century. In fact it was declared World Heritage Site.It’s not my favorite building ,but I think that it was something different from that time (It was built in 1937).This is like a performing arts centre. like theater , ballet , opera or musical productions.Designed by the architect Jørn Utzon, with a series of large concrete "shells", each composed of sections of a sphere forming the roofs of the structure. This is what caught my attention the first time I saw this building ( in a picture :( ) , How the pieces, that come from a sphere, a volume, are reordered and composed as a new form. Like something broken and reordered in a different way.

]It's sad to think that we're so far from buildings used like arts centre of this magnitude. Because in Chile the art it's not appreciated like in others countries.I hope to someday visit this building. I think it’s a work you must see at least one time in your life. 

One of my favorite artists: James Turrell

Today I’m going to write about an artist that I discovered last year. His name is JamesTurrell. He  is an American artist primarily concerned with light and space.I won’t describe an artwork in particular, because the things I like about this artist are present in many of his works: The colored lights and the loos of space. I like his work because you’re part of it, you can walk through. You live the work,and it becomes an experience. because he plays with the space and the perception. You lose the notion of the scale, the depth, and the limits. You are like floating in a purple light, yellow or any color.I think it’s easy for a person who doesn’t know about art to interpret the artwork, because it’s easy to feel something when you’re part of the installation like this.In general I like sculptures that you can be part of it. I think the reason that I like this is because I study architecture, I usually think in projects that you can walk through obviously, and you live an experience similar to James Turell’s work, that the most important part is the experience of each person.