The Endless House

Week 2


Endless House Project, Perspective

<http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=104>
(to view drawing)


Artist: Frederick Kiesler

Size: 37.5 by 45.1cm

Gallery: Museum of Modern Art, New York



            This particular drawing The Endless House Project, is one of many parts to this particular art project. This is an ink drawing on wash paper of The Endless House. In this drawing there is only one color being used in different shades. There is dark and light shading with and ink pen. There seems to be lighter shading than there is dark. The people that he drew sitting under what is suppose to be the house have not physical attributes. They are there to give you an idea of what this project is suppose to be used for, a house. This drawing looks like it is suppose to demonstrate how the house has no distinct ending. It has round edges as if it is on the earth and is created into the ground.

          This ink drawing relates to my social issue of the environment because this house that he created on this drawing is meant to be endless as if it is involved on the earth. It is depicted as a part of our environment. To me this house is meant to be connected with the earth as one. The earth is never ending it is round and goes on and on. Just like this house there is no end to it. It also goes round and round. This Endless House would have still been manmade and not actually created by the environment. However Frederick Kiesler wanted to create something that was endless and had no edges to where it could stop.

         This particular ink drawing changed the way people think of architecture and the actual purpose of a building or object. This quote “It is endless like the human body. There is no beginning and end to it. The “Endless” is rather sensuous. More like the female body in contrast to sharp-angled male architecture,” demonstrates that this piece is in fact supposed to be understood as being endless. The artist wanted the idea of endlessness to come across to people when they looked at this. However this drawing was just one of the many steps that the artist used for this whole project I think that the drawing really gives you a good idea of how he wanted people to view it.