A Ponte do Brooklyn em 1892, Nova York, Estados Unidos (The Brooklyn Bridge in 1892) - Thomas Fransioli

 

A Ponte do Brooklyn em 1892, Nova York, Estados Unidos (The Brooklyn Bridge in 1892) - Thomas Fransioli

Nova York - Estados Unidos

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OST - 92x122 - 1965

The Brooklyn Bridge in 1892, painted by Thomas Fransioli in 1965, is a crisp view of the East River docks of New York City's bustling and chaotic nineteenth-century port district. After 1883, this area of the city lay immediately south of the Brooklyn Bridge, the engineering marvel that became a popular icon and symbol of New York City's industrial and commercial future. Characteristic of Fransioli's style, he has painted the bridge, buildings, and boats with a sharp eye for detail. Fransioli's image of the bridge is commanding, connecting both Manhattan and Brooklyn as well as the land and sky. He succeeds in elegantly exhibiting the curvilinear grace and strength of the bridge. His buildings are presented with a similar treatment as he depicts the diverse architecture of lower New York, from the slanting rooflines and three-story structures of the eighteenth-century to the prominent cast-iron fronted commercial buildings. History is blended together on the water as well, as tall-masted sailing vessels, steamer ferries, and a sidewheel steamer share the river. Fransioli plays with the theme of past and present juxtaposed in The Brooklyn Bridge in 1892 and does so in fantastical ways through his own conceptual geometry. The result is an architect's rendering filtered through an artist's sensibilities of an idealized past.