visually exploring Stanely Kubrick’s greatest works
UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON
UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON
visually exploring Stanely Kubrick’s greatest works
INTERIORS The one item which could at first appear to languish out of place is the colourful quilt adoring Alex’s bed. Look closer and the hexagonal and triangular mix appear to push outwards, providing a fabric ‘spike’ to the only comfortable looking aspect of Alex’s room. This is enhanced when an orgy played at high-speed happens on the quilt, the acceleration of the footage and the spikes in the quilt adding to an overloaded Kubrick representation of sexual brutality.
brutalism in exteriors, interiors and a quilt
Stanley Kubrick’s dystopian A Clockwork Orange (1971) depicts a future where the disenfranchised youth run wildly amuck, blood-lust fuelled by a popular cocktail known as Moloko whilst sprouting profanities in a bastardised concoction of English and Russian.
One of Alex’s droogs filling up his glass at the Molokov Milk Bar. The white figures of women turned furniture were inspired by the sculptures of Allen Jones.
Allen Jones turned down the offer, and the pieces in question were produced by a set designer (though ironically, many continue to believe they were by Jones.)
Allen Jones Chair from Table Chair and Hatstand
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A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Venture inside those punishing exteriors and there is no escape from the violence in a visceral orgy of 1970’s post-modernist kitsch. None is played out more prevalently than in Alex’s flat where gold wallpaper, bulbous chrome-cladded walls and JH Lynch paintings rise-up to bite you on ever y corner. The banality of a mid-centur y credenza resting against a wall only adds to the violence of saturated colours on account of its mere presence.
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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Kubrick’s meticulous attention to detail and fastidiousness is legendary but interestingly the film also set new standards in movie making in being one of the first examples of innovation through strategic product placement: The 2001 team invited commercial product manufacturers and designers of the time including IBM, Honeywell, Whirlpool (kitchens), Macy’s, Dupont (fabrics), Hilton Hotels, Parker Pens, Nikon, Kodak (cameras), Hamilton (watches) as well as outstanding interior and furniture designers of the time to create projected versions of how their products they might look decades later in the year 2001.
POSTMODERNISM AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE SPACE RACE
COLOR + PATTERN