![]() In 1934, the young student's parents visited Taliesin and met Wright in person. However, we do know that Kaufmann’s son, Edgar Kaufmann Jr., admired the architect's work, and studied under Wright as an apprentice at his Taliesin Studio in Wisconsin. Nobody quite knows how the Kaufmann family and Wright first became acquainted. Kaufmann-whose department store, Kaufmann’s, was later incorporated into Macy’s-helped resuscitate Wright's career when he asked the architect to design a weekend home in the Laurel Highlands for his family. ![]() Wright had only built a few buildings in the previous decade, the Great Depression had diminished demand for new projects, and, adding insult to injury, his younger peers considered his style to be anachronistic. The transparant layered structure of the painting intensifies the depth.Today, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is revered as one of history’s greatest architects-but by the time he reached his late 60s, many critics considered him to be washed up. The transparant walls and floors with reflections on the opposite walls don't give any footing and the perspective lines and vanishing points, like rational benchmarks lead to an irrational and intuitive way of thinking. In my paintings the images of modern architecture are based on a rhythmical pattern of verticals and horizontals in which an multi coloured labyrinth of spaces and look-throughs is created. Same as architects like Mies van de Rohe, Richard Neutra, Gerrit Rietveld and Le Corbusier, I want to emphasize the immaterial aspect of a building by creating open spaces. The architecture of Bauhaus and 'De Stijl' reflects order in a time of chaos. Besides the clear abstract formed language of the abstract composition, I am fascinated by the ideas of hope and prosperity resulting from the desire of creating a new order by this movement at the beginning of the 20th century. It was part of the bigger movement of the Modernism. Mondrian was initiator of 'De Stijl' a movement with radical new ideas of lifestyle based on harmony and unity. The same straight lines one can find in my compositions. From a birds eye view the Netherlands looks like a painting of Piet Mondrian. This and the impressive man-made structure of my new homeland appeared to be essential for my artistic calling in my later paintings. For a long time this new surrounding felt like I was loosing my roots in an alien country. Cécile van Hanja about her work: My earliest childhood I've spent in the South of France, a land where everything was different than in the Netherlands, the country I moved to when I was 8 years old. Her paintings are currently for sale at the Fremin Gallery in New York (USA) and displayed on Artsy. Her work was also selected by Saatchi Art for the Samsung Architecture collection. Her work is in different private collections in France, Germany, US, Switzerland, UK, Japan and in the Netherlands. In 2014 she was chosen by an international jury initiated by Saatchi Art to show her work in London at the Griffin Gallery. She was selected by the La Napoule Art foundation for an artist in residence at the Château La Napoule in France and she obtain a 2 years grant from the Mondrian foundation(a governmental fund) in Amsterdam. Currently she lives and works in Haarlem (The Netherlands). Cécile van Hanja born in Corsica (1964) graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam) in 1993.
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