Painting: 'Woman at her toilet' by Jan Steen 1659-60
Narrative: Temple for a woman in search of feminine beauty.
Questioning where true beauty is found - in outer appearance? But eventually that will fade... Or inner beauty? Form and in structure found in ratios?
*Idea of how beauty can be incorporated into a building through the study of geometry found in the human form and in nature.
*Idea of how a perfectly proportioned building can bring harmony, contentment and comfort to the one inhabiting the space and hence allow for appreciation of beauty in its forms
*The use of the golden rectangle
Site: Monet's Garden
Monet's Garden, the Irises. 1900 (Monet)
Waterlillies, 1914. (Monet)
Monet wishes to capture the unattainable - the air which surrounds, the beauty of desire to catch the often unattainable light, air and reflections. I wished to do the same with my design.
Monet's garden - quality of water, everchanging colour, reflections, power, light
House facing Monet's garden
Map of the gardens of Claude Monet at Giverny
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