The Salk Institute: The portrayal of shocking scenes

Michael 2022-12-29 03:41:42

*Louis Kahn's illegitimate son visits his father's building decades after Kahn's death Kahn's son wears roller skates and dances with a sense of ambiguity against the backdrop of the Salk Institute's clean, one-piece concrete building Knowing that it is the solemnity of the building, or the pure color picture brought by the monotonous gray, or Louis Kahn, who has a wife and daughter, but makes the other two girls think about it, and whether this man is proud of his father's achievements or himself. The unease of the identity of the bastard is indeed the bastard who is dancing at the moment looking for the answer. At this moment, I feel mixed feelings, but at the same time I feel that this picture is extremely holy

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  • Louis Kahn: How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.

  • Louis Kahn: A work of art... is not a living thing... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives you a reaction. To some it is the wonder of man's fingers. To some it is the wonder of the mind. To some it is the wonder of technique. And to some it is how real it is. To some, how transcendent it is. Like the 5th Symphony, it presents itself with a feeling that you know it, if you have heard it once. And you look for it, and though you know it you must hear it again. Though you know it you must see it again. Truly, a work of art is one that tells us that Nature cannot make what man can make.