Architecture

Build Bridges Not Walls (Bridges in Art)

Magda Michalska 27 January 2017 min Read

Since some people do everything to create divisions and disconcert by building walls, I want to build bridges and new connections. Share if you want to build bridges not walls like…

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh, Bridges Across The Seine At Asnieres, 1887, E.G. Bührle Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland
Vincent van Gogh, Bridges Across The Seine At Asnieres, 1887, E.G. Bührle Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland

Maurice de Vlaminck

Maurice de Vlaminck, The Bridge At Chatou, 1907, Private Collection
Maurice de Vlaminck, The Bridge At Chatou, 1907, Private Collection

Joseph Stella

Joseph Stella, The Brooklyn Bridge: Variation on an Old Theme, 1939, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Joseph Stella, The Brooklyn Bridge: Variation on an Old Theme, 1939, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Henri Rousseau

Henri Rousseau, Sevres Bridge, date unknown, Private Collection
Henri Rousseau, Sevres Bridge, date unknown, Private Collection

Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch, Girls On A Bridge, 1899-1900, Private Collection
Edvard Munch, Girls On A Bridge, 1899-1900, Private Collection

Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall, Bridges Over The Seine, 1954, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg
Marc Chagall, Bridges Over The Seine, 1954, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg

Childe Hassam

Childe Hassam, Bridge At Posilippo, Naples, 1897, Private collection
Childe Hassam, Bridge At Posilippo, Naples, 1897, Private collection

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí, The Broken Bridge and The Dream, 1945, The Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg (Florida)
Salvador Dalí, The Broken Bridge and The Dream, 1945, The Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg (Florida)

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Magda Michalska

Magda, art historian and Italianist, she writes about art because she cannot make it herself. She loves committed and political artists like Ai Weiwei or the Futurists; like Joseph Beuys she believes that art can change us and we can change the world.

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