Art and Craft

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 TIMELINE
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
ART AND CRAFT MOVEMENT.
ART NOUVUE.
 THE GRAMMER ORNAMENT
IN 1856, in response to failing of crystal plaza, to better
understand ornamentation was answered by OWEN JONES
Published an exhaustive inventory of international and
historical decorative styles, printed in colorful lithographs.
The book included 20 sections of illustrated motifs and
Jones’s 37 propositions on what makes good design.
ART AND LITRATURE
 Book cover by William Moris.
Pre-Raphaelite painters such
as Frank Cowper were
The Art and Craft Movement spurned closely associated with the
Art & Craft Movement.
the Machine Age
and looked to Nature for idealistic
inspiration.
 ARCHITECTURE
THE RED HOUSE
 COMMISSIONED BY MORRIS, PHILIP WEB BUILT THE RED
HOUSE AT BEXLEY HEATH IN KENT.
 THE HOUSE WAS TO REPRESENT A PROTEST AGAINST
INDUSTRIALISM THROUGH ITS:
INFORMALITY
ABSENCE OF DECORATION
SIMPLE VERNACULAR
THE EMPHASIS ON BASIC FORM,
SOUND MATERIALS AND GOOD CRAFTSMANSHIP
 INTERNTIOAL LONDON EXHIBITION

 1862 was a world event on a mass-scale. Thousands of objects from

36 different countries were displayed together to represent the best of
the raw, crafted and manufactured.
 This art and industry of the cutting-edge was staged in a specially
designed site in South Kensington, London.
 Larger in size and scale than the 1851 Great Exhibition, 1862 was
nevertheless judged a flop and failed to establish a lasting legacy like
that of its predecessor.

 The building consisted of a main structure with two adjoining wings set
at right angles for machinery and agricultural equipment; the wings
were demolished after the Exhibition. Its main facade along Cromwell
Road was 1152 feet (351 m) in length, and ornamented by two crystal
domes, each of which was 260 feet (79 m) high.
 THE ART AND CRAFT MOVEMENT
 The Arts and Crafts Movement was an international design movement
that originated in Britain and flourished between 1880 and 1910.
 It was instigated by the artist and writer William Morris (1834–1896)
in the 1860s and was inspired by the writings of John Ruskin (1819–
1900)
 It influenced architecture, domestic design and the decorative arts,
using simple forms and a medieval style of decoration.
 It advocated truth to materials, traditional craftsmanship and
economic reform.
 CHARACTERISTICS OF ART NAD CRAFT
MOVEMENT
Moved away from imitation of real subjects and moved
towards flowing and twisting lines of nature

Inspired by the lines and shapes of nature

united flowing, natural forms with more angular contours

Art Nouveau designers also believed that all the arts

should work in harmony to create a "total work of art”
Art Nouveau embraced all forms of art
and design:
architecture
furniture
glassware
graphic design
jewelry
painting
pottery
metalwork
textile
SOME OF THE FEATURES IN THE ART
FORM

STAINED GLASS
 WILLIAM MORRIS
(1843-1896)
A POET AND ARTIST.
HE BEILEVED :
1. INDUSTRIAL REVEOLUTION IS
REDUCING SKILLS OF CRAFTSMAN.
2. LOW QUALITY GOODS IN FACTORY
MANUFACTURING.
Handcrafted
Wallpapers.
Furniture
.
 ARCHITECTURE
ART AND CRAFT COTTAGE
 PROCHES WITH THICK COLUMNS
 OPEN FLOOR PLANS
 STAINED GLASS.
 EMULATE MEDIVAL THATCHED HUTS.
 THERE WERE COZY BUNGALOWS MADE FROM NATURAL
MATERIALS. (WOOD,STONE AND STUCCO)
 DOORS COVERED WITH WIDE EAVES
 DARK WOOD MOULDING
 THE ART NOUVAE
Intrinsically linked to literature , painting,
sculpture , music and decorative and graphic
arts.
Propagated unexplored aesthetic ideals and its
final phase influenced the textile industry ,
crystals and fashion .
 With technological development lithography
gained colors that influenced the graphic area
(posters ).
 FEATURES OF ART NOUVAE
 Breaking with traditions.
No ideological concerns or aesthetic traditions.
 Setting the contour line of the form and direction
of the construction.
 The Forms :
• Arabesques,curves and predominance of cold
tones.
• Inspiration in nature (foliage,flowers,animals )
• Use of mosaic and different materials.
Siegfried Bing
German naturalized French in 1876, Siegfried
Bing (later called Samuel Bing)

He was the founder in 1895 of " La Maison de

l'Art Nouveau " in Paris.

It was his art gallery and exhibition hall that

gave its name to the famous artistic Style Art
Nouveau.
 Inspirations

Arts and Crafts Japanese

Movement Art

• Led by William Morris • the flat perspective and strong

colors of Japanese wood
• Reaction against the cluttered of Japanese wood block prints
designs and compositions of
Victorian-era decorative art • (Olive green, carnation pink and
periwinkle blue)
• Handcraftsmanship
• “Whiplash” curves were derived
• Highly expressive paintings of
post impressionist
The designs were inspired from some nature
forms like curves formed by waves of sea,
trees.
Architectural features
Windows
Doors
Stairs
Balconies
Furnitures
Collumns,ceilings.
Some posters and patterns of art
nouvae.
Architectural buildings
Subway designd in the era of art
nouvae