I have a couple questions about the artist Frank Lloyd Wright. Please only serious answers.?

Question

Please give me the answers to the following short questions please! Where did Frank Lloyd Wright live and create his artwork at? What type of artwork did he create (paintings, sculpture, etc.)? And what was the artists stlye (realism, abstract, cubism, etc.)? Please try to answer as many as you can! Thank you!

Answer 1

Check this site out - most/allof your questions should be answered here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright

Answer 2

I didn't think I leaned toward any particular style until I toured Frank Lloyd Wright's last standing hotel (in Mason City, IA) "The Park Inn." It was recently restored to it's original splendor (at the cost of $18.5 million,) and is now open for business complete with a restaurant. I fell in love with the place. If I lived closer, I would have to get a job there so I could spend more time without being a pest.

Answer 3

Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect who died in 1959 classed as the most prominent architect during the first 1/2 of the last century there are many of his fine houses around still.

Type his name into Google and you will find all the information you could need

Answer 4

Frank Lloyd Wright was a famous architecht.
He built a famous house called, "Falling Waters" which was situated right over a stream in the woods.
He had a home in Phoenix, Arizona that he designed himself and it is now a museum. I have been there. He had another home, I think he only lived in the southwest during the winters if I recall.
Why not google his name? You can see examples of the buildings he designed online with a couple of clicks.

Answer 5

He lived many places, but his primary residences were Taliesan in Wisconsin and Talisin West in Arizona - where he taught architecture and art to many students. He was primarily an architect, but also created sculpture, paintings, stained glass windows, furniture and decorative accessories for the home. His style was mostly Prarie style - after he broke away from Chicago style he learned from his mentor Louis Sullivan. If you were looking to relate it to an art style, I would say it was closest to the International style of Piet Mondrian. Mr. Wright was a very intersting man who led a very interesting life and there are many humorous stories about him. He was a total control freak - handling every detail in a project right down to the way the napkins were folded on the dining table. He is buried at Taliesin in Wisconsin. Pax - C.

Answer 6

Is your google button broken? How about wikipedia then? Are you for some reason incapable of using the single greatest research tool in the history of mankind even though you obviously have access to one and are sitting in front of it right now? What is it that makes you incapable of performing the kind of basic search that any 10-year old would be capable of?

Answer 7

Though he worked in other mediums, FLW was mainly an architect, he is credited with beginning the "Prairie School" style of architecture. He mainly worked in the US, but also spent time in Japan.

Check wikipedia for more indepth info.

Answer 8

Hmmm, his MAIN "artwork" was drafting ...
ARCHITECTURE

He did design lamps, furniture, and stained glass, but others were contracted to actually produce them. His style was Art Deco.

http://www.delmars.com/wright/flwright.htm
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Answer 9

Wasn't he an architect?

Answer 10

Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867—April 9, 1959) was one of the most prominent and influential architects during the first half of the 20th century. He developed a series of highly individual styles over his extraordinarily long architectural career (spanning the years 1887-1959) and influenced the entire course of American architecture and building. To this day, he remains probably America's most famous architect.

"The greatest artist this century has ever produced seems, at last, to be coming into his own...America's other great artists - our best painters, sculptors, composers - don't really rank with the tops of all time. They're just not Rembrandt, Michelangelo or Beethoven. Wright alone has that kind of standing...he's among the greatest architects who ever practiced."


Wright was also well known for his colorful personal life that frequently made headlines, notably for his three long relationships with Catherine Lee Tobin whom he married in 1889, Miriam Noel beginning in 1922, and Olga Milanov Hinzenberg (Olgivanna) whom he married in 1928.

Frank Lloyd Wright was born in the agricultural town of Richland Center, Wisconsin, United States, on June 8, 1867, of Welsh descent just two years after the end of the American Civil War. His father was a Baptist preacher, but as an adult Wright developed strong Unitarian and transcendental principles. (Eventually, in 1905, he would design the Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois.) As a child he spent a great deal of time playing with the kindergarten educational blocks by Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel (known as Froebel Gifts) given to him by his mother. These consisted of various geometrically shaped blocks that could be assembled in various combinations to form three-dimensional compositions. Wright in his autobiography talks about the influence of these exercises on his approach to design. Many of his buildings are notable for the geometrical clarity they exhibit.


Wright's home in Oak Park, IllinoisWright began his formal education in 1885 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School for Engineering, where he was a member of a fraternity, Phi Delta Theta. He took classes part-time for two years while apprenticing under Allan Darst Conover, a local builder and professor of civil engineering. In 1887, Wright left the university without taking a degree (although he was granted an honorary doctorate of fine arts from the university in 1955) and moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he joined the architectural firm of Joseph Lyman Silsbee. Within the year, he had left Silsbee to work for the firm of Adler & Sullivan. Beginning in 1890, he was assigned all residential design work for the firm. In 1893, Louis Sullivan himself unwillingly asked Wright leave the firm after he discovered that Wright had been accepting clients independently from the firm (moonlighting). Wright established his own practice and home in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, IL. By 1901, Wright's completed projects numbered approximately fifty, including many houses in his hometown. He married the daughter of a wealthy businessman, which raised his social status, and he became more well-known.

Wright practiced what is known as organic architecture, an architecture that evolves naturally out of the context, most importantly for him the relationship between the site and the building and the needs of the client. Houses in wooded regions, for instance, made heavy use of wood, desert houses had rambling floor plans and heavy use of stone, and houses in rocky areas such as Los Angeles were built mainly of cinder block. Wright's creations took his concern with organic architecture down to the smallest details. From his largest commercial commissions to the relatively modest Usonian houses, Wright conceived virtually every detail of both the external design and the internal fixtures, including furniture, carpets, windows, doors, tables and chairs, light fittings and decorative elements. He was one of the first architects to design and supply custom-made, purpose-built furniture and fittings that functioned as integrated parts of the whole design, and he often returned to earlier commissions to redesign internal fittings. His Prairie houses use themed, coordinated design elements (often based on plant forms) that are repeated in windows, carpets and other fittings. He made innovative use of new building materials such as precast concrete blocks, glass bricks and zinc cames (instead of the traditional lead) for his leadlight windows, and he famously used Pyrex glass tubing as a major element in the Johnson Wax Headquarters. Wright was also one of the first architects to design and install custom-made electric light fittings, including some of the very first electric floor lamps, and his very early use of the then-novel spherical glass lampshade (a design previously not possible due to the physical restrictions of gas lighting).


Wright-designed window in Robie House, Chicago (1906)As Wright's career progressed, so as well did the mechanization of the glass industry. Wright fully embraced glass in his designs and found that it fit well into his philosophy of organic architecture. Glass allowed for interaction and viewing of the outdoors while still protecting from the elements. In 1928, Wright wrote an essay on glass in which he compared it to the mirrors of nature: lakes, rivers and ponds. One of Wright's earliest uses of glass in his works was to string panes of glass along whole walls in an attempt to create light screens to join together solid walls. By utilizing this large amount of glass, Wright sought to achieve a balance between the lightness and airiness of the glass and the solid, hard walls. Arguably, Wright's most well-known art glass is that of the Prairie style. The simple geometric shapes that yield to very ornate and intricate windows represent some of the most integral ornamentation of his career.[2]

Often, Wright designed not only the buildings, but the furniture as well. Some of the built-in furniture remains, while other restorations have included replacement pieces created using his plans.

Wright responded to the transformation of domestic life that occurred at the turn of the twentieth century, when servants became a less prominent or completely absent feature of most American households, by developing homes with progressively more open plans. This allowed the woman of the house to work in her 'workplace', as he often called the kitchen, yet keep track of and be available for the children and/or guests in the dining room. Much of modern architecture, including the early work of Mies van der Rohe, can be traced back to Wright's innovative work.

Wright also designed his own clothing. His fashion sense was unique and he usually wore expensive suits, flowing neckties, and capes as well as driving a custom yellow raceabout in the Prairie years, a red Cord convertible in the 1930's, a famous customized 1940 Lincoln for many years, each of which earned him many speeding tickets.