Photograph

“Cargo Ship in the Port of Oakland” painting: Photographs

01/01/1991

Oil Painting

One photograph of the oil painting on wooden panel.

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Work of Art

Cargo Ship in the Port of Oakland, painting 1991

Personal Work of Art, Painting

Created by:

Christopher Alexander

Oil painting on wooden panel, 9"x12".

References

Scientific Research

Color and Inner Light: The Eleven Color Properties

Areas of focus:

Structure of Space

Guiding idea:

Centers and Fields of Centers

Christopher Alexander postulated that centers and the field of centers they create are the building blocks from which wholeness is made. However, he further argued that geometry alone is not sufficient, and that color is the way wholeness comes to ...
Strong Centers in all Levels of Scale

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

A building can only amount to something as a living thing when the various physical elements which appear in it are profound centers. The dominant feature of the process that is working correctly is that new centers are formed, and ...