ARTE Documentary: Frank Lloyd Wright I ARTE Documentary

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Content of the Lesson: Portrait of a genius of modern architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright (1967-1959) whose life moved between glory, scandal and tragedy.  "With age, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility." Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) liked to pose as a genius. The son of divorced parents - a lawyer and music-loving pastor-father and a domineering mother who introduced him to architecture. The Wisconsin-born child prodigy knew that he was destined for art at an early age. At 19, this pioneer of ecological architecture, trained in Chicago with the greatest masters. Three years later, he married Catherine Lee Tobin on a whim, the soon-to-be the mother of his six children. He built the first of his revolutionary "prairie houses" for his family. What followed was a scandalous affair and a flight to Europe with Mamah Cheney, the wife of a client. For her, he designed the organic villa Taliesin, flooded with light, in 1911. But a terrible tragedy was to occur: a servant, who suffered from mental illness, killed Mamah in Wright's absence along with six other people and burnt down the house. Devastated, Wright finds the strength to rebuild it, before it burns down again. After an ephemeral and chaotic marriage with a drug addict, this architect who loved women ended up finding harmony with Olgivanna, thirty years his junior, who encouraged him to create his famous school. . Jealous of his rivals - and of the Bauhaus - he responded to them in 1935 with the "House on the Waterfall:' an extremely modern creation. On his 80th birthday, the Guggenheim Museum in New York commemorated the man who claimed to be the greatest architect of the 20th century. Clarity and linearity Combining archival images as well as guided tours, this documentary, fed by delicious extracts from Wright's autobiography, retraces the romantic journey of an individual who aimed to democratize architecture. An admirer of Japanese purity, Frank Lloyd Wright had made clarity and linearity the hallmarks of his style. In turn, his fans, his assistant and his grandson bear witness to his flamboyant personality and the work of a visionary artist whose British humour made his oversized ego easy to forgive. Available until the 21/12/2020 ARTE Documentary is here to tell you more about what’s going on in the world of culture and current affairs with powerful, refreshing and entertaining docs subtitled in English for our international fans. Discover a whole world on ARTE. 💡 Feel like watching our programmes subtitled in another language? ARTE in English 👉 https://www.arte.tv/en/ ARTE en español 👉 https://www.arte.tv/es/ ARTE in italiano 👉 https://www.arte.tv/it/ ARTE po polsku 👉https://www.arte.tv/pl/ Subscribe to our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVogAsASqbceBmQMi1WA39g You can also find us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ARTE.tv Twitter: https://twitter.com/ARTEen #FrankLloydWright #Architecture #ARTE


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