Notes:
John Ruskin
Philosophical leader for the arts and craft movement
Social Reform
Asked “ how can u consciously structure a society so they can contain a happy and mobile society”
Beginning of Socialism
Base Idea- things are valuable simply because there beautiful.
Cathedral was the perfect union
William Morris
Designed three typefaces- Golden, Troy and Chaucer.
“Don’t put anything in your home unless it’s beautiful.”
He designed over 644 blocks, plus initials, borders, frames and title pages.
People normally remember the vine work, paper and tapestry
William Morris falls into the Arts and Crafts Movement
He is reacting to Industrialization negatively
Aubrey Beardsley
Bad boy in art, he was scandalous
His work is similar to that of William Morris
Became more of a naturalistic painter towards the end of his career
Alphonse Mucha
Job doing Litho at a print shop
Sara Bernhardt hired him to a mutli- year contract for his work
His style was dominant
Adds a lot of sexuality to his designs
Will Bradley played with abstraction, flat backgrounds but the image with dimensionality.
Abstraction to decode the image
The way the lines cut force the visual of dimensionality
Henry Vanderbelt
Art Nouveau is a younger persons art
Margaret and Francis McDonald – they are sisters
Herbert McNair
Charles Renee Macintosh
Key points- Geometric, Curvilinear Elements (curvy/flowy) Rectilinear structure (rising verticals)
Floral Motifs, symbolism (Victorian)
Commonalities between students
They all became married.
They became known for attending the Giazgo School
Designed furniture’s and interiors.
Sessionstil (Austrian) – means style
Gustav and Klimt
Coloman Moser
Go through styles rapidly
Personal Thoughts:
It's very interesting to know that it was offensive to have sexuality within the designs of ads like that of Alphonse Mucha. Today's society is totally open about sexuality, even alittle to much to the point that nothings a secret anymore. Today should be more like it was back then. I like the idea that John Ruskin believed that a cathedral made a union between people. When i was growing up I attended Church every Sunday and people really do unite together and get along.
Questions:
Why was sexuality so defensive back then and not now?
Why does Art Nouveau mean young art?
Why was sexuality so defensive back then and not now?
ReplyDelete> I don't think that "defensive" is the word you meant to use there.
Why does Art Nouveau mean young art?
The name is actually coined for the movement from Maison de l'Art Nouveau (House of New Art) which was a gallery / store at the time. It is considered one of the youth movements of the time.