Book Cover by William Morris
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The Arts & Crafts Movement spurned the Machine Age and looked to Nature for idealistic inspiration. Book Cover by William Morris Pre-Raphaelite painters such as Frank Cowper were closely associated with the Art & Craft Movement. The Shakers were a religious movement that made furniture noted for it’s beautiful simplicity.
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The Arts & Crafts Movement spurned the Machine Ageand looked to Nature for idealistic inspiration.
Book Cover by William Morris
Pre-Raphaelite painters such as Frank Cowper were closely associated with theArt & Craft Movement.
The Shakers were a religious movement that made furniturenoted for it’s beautifulsimplicity.
Art Nouveau was exemplified by sinuous natural forms.
William Doub, Art Nouveau desk
Lalique dragonfly broochAntonio Gaudi, Architecture
Art Nouveau font style
Poster
Designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a major contributor to the Modernist Movement.
Glasgow School of Art
ChairBracelet
With the advent of Photography, Impressionism turned away from realism, exploring visual impression.
Claude Monet “Soleil Levant”
Van Gogh “Starry Night”
In the Twentieth Century inventions such as electricity, automobiles, aircraft & advanced materials
gave rise to Modernism.
Bauhaus, Germany
Mies van der Rohe, the designerof the “Barcelona” chair said “Less is more”.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Falling Water”
The Avant Guard was a cultural bloom of many styles
Cubist painting by Picasso
Futurism and other Avant GuardMovements embraced theMachine Age Symbolism- Gustav Klimt
“Death and Life”.
Constructivism-Lissitsky” Wedge”. De Stijl- Mondrian- composition
with Red Yellow, and Blue
Expressionist Wassily KandinskyComposition VIII
After the barbarism of WW1 art movements explored psychological and sub-conscious themes.
Dada- Marcel Duchamp Dada- Max Earnst
Surrealism-Salvador Dali Metamorphosis of Narcissus
Rene Magritte “The Big Family””
Discoveries in Egypt excited an interest in ancient Egyptian forms which became “stylised” into Art Deco
Art Deco clock
Poster
Art Deco building- Napier scales
Streamline Design Style glorified speed.
Comics sold widelyduring the 1930’s depression.
1959 Cadillac tail fin.
Kitsch?Fast lettering.
Art Informel was one movement of Europe’s post WW2
Avant Guarde that was increasingly abstract.
Willem De KooningExcavation, 1950
Wols"Bleu optimiste"
In the 1950s Abstract Expressionism could be found inmany U.S galleries.
Jackson Pollock, Convergence, 1952
Mark Rothko,White Center. 1950
Jackson Pollockat work.
Pop Art burst the bubble of esoteric “High Art” and brought popular culture into the Art Gallery.
Roy Lichtenstein, M-Maybe
Andy Warhol, Campbells
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