This time we have a particularly visual show for you, that will surely pique the interest of anyone with an eye for architecture and design, in-world or out, as we visit Second Life's Frank Lloyd Wright Virtual Museum, in the region of Usonia.
Frank Lloyd Wright is widely regarded as the leading American architect of the 20th century, with a career spanning over half of it. His earliest work dates back to the early 1900s, while his last design, the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, was built in 1959.
At the Museum we get an overview of the man's colourful life; we take an in-depth look at his interior design by focusing on one particular house; and in the final part of the programme we visit some of the FLWVM's extensive realisations of Wright's buildings in the Museum grounds. And in doing so, we gain an understanding of the influences, inspiration and work of a great artist.
In addition to the specific rooms and buildings we visited, there's an impressive collection of images taken by star photographer P J Trenton to give you a more complete overview of the Museum and its grounds.
We're helped in this venture by FLWVM's CEO Frey Bravin, Assistant Director Rosalie Oldrich, and Education Director Barbara Collazo, and although viewers of the live show will be aware that we had some rather annoying technical difficulties on this occasion, our talented friends at Treet have delivered our usual polished presentation thanks to a bit of extra work in the edit suite (thanks, guys!).
We're sure that, having seen the show, you'll want to visit yourself.
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I enjoyed the video show featuring the Frank Lloyd Wright Virtual Museum. I am aquainted with Frey and Rosalie and am a regular visitor to Usonia. As it would happen I am also involved with another project that may be of interest to you all at Designing Worlds. The Andrew Wyeth Memorial Park, located in Triemont has been months in the making. The Grand Opening was held on February 5th and it was a huge success! Wyeth was a renowned American artist, he lived from July 1917 to January 2009. His most famous painting was "Christina's World" which he painted in 1948. The park features Olson House which was made famous by Wyeth over his career as he featured it in over 300 of his paintings, including Christina's World. There is also the Chadds Ford house which displays many of Wyeth's paintings. Located in both houses are 3D virtual representations of Wyeths art where the visitor can view the art in the structure of the constructs, or actually place themself in the art. In addition to Andrew Wyeth, there is the Artist Park located on the sim. Twelve of SL's premier artists are on display here in a fantastical enviroment which when viewed from above reveals itself to be a great clock covering one quarter of the sim. Please come and visit The Andrew Wyeth Memorial Park, on Triemont!