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Book Cover by William Morris

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

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Book Cover by William Morris

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  1. 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 the Art & Craft Movement. The Shakers were a religious movement that made furniture noted for it’s beautiful simplicity.

  2. Art Nouveau was exemplified by sinuous natural forms. William Doub, Art Nouveau desk Art Nouveau font style Antonio Gaudi, Architecture Lalique dragonfly brooch Poster

  3. Designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a major contributor to the Modernist Movement. Glasgow School of Art Bracelet Chair

  4. With the advent of Photography, Impressionism turned away from realism, exploring visual impression. Van Gogh “Starry Night” Claude Monet “Soleil Levant”

  5. In the Twentieth Century inventions such as electricity, automobiles, aircraft & advanced materials gave rise to Modernism. Bauhaus, Germany Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Falling Water” Mies van der Rohe, the designer of the “Barcelona” chair said “Less is more”.

  6. The Avant Guard was a cultural bloom of many styles Futurism and other Avant Guard Movements embraced the Machine Age Symbolism- Gustav Klimt “Death and Life”. Cubist painting by Picasso Constructivism-Lissitsky ” Wedge”. Expressionist Wassily Kandinsky Composition VIII De Stijl- Mondrian- composition with Red Yellow, and Blue

  7. After the barbarism of WW1 art movements explored psychological and sub-conscious themes. Dada- Marcel Duchamp Dada- Max Earnst Rene Magritte “The Big Family”” Surrealism- Salvador Dali Metamorphosis of Narcissus

  8. Discoveries in Egypt excited an interest in ancient Egyptian forms which became “stylised” into Art Deco Art Deco clock Poster scales Art Deco building- Napier

  9. Streamline Design Style glorified speed. Comics sold widely during the 1930’s depression. 1959 Cadillac tail fin. Fast lettering. Kitsch?

  10. Art Informel was one movement of Europe’s post WW2 Avant Guarde that was increasingly abstract. Willem De Kooning Excavation, 1950 Wols "Bleu optimiste"

  11. In the 1950s Abstract Expressionism could be found inmany U.S galleries. Mark Rothko, White Center. 1950 Jackson Pollock at work. Jackson Pollock, Convergence, 1952

  12. 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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