Arts and Crafts Movement
Arts and crafts is not the usual things children do at
school while they are doing there arts lessons. Art and crafts is a movement that
started in the 1880 in Britain and quickly started to spread across Europe and
America and even in Japan, which was, know as the Folks craft.
The movement itself
grew from the principals of the traditional skills of that time and
around the lives of the average people .What happened is that people at that
time where fed up from there usual machines by saying usual machines is steam machines and was called the The steam age brought machination to the
industry which changed everything .It changed the way products where being made
and mass production took an effect on the quality of the product. It took away
the pride and crafts man ship that took ages to develop . The art of making
this was fading away .So the arts and craft movement started a rebellion
against the mass produced objects
and the steam age and machines of
that time which where destroying the
skills that took ages to develop . The one that lead the rebellion against the
steam machines was William Morris he was a poet and painter. He dint want to reject
the machine he wanted to perfect it and he wanted to see the crafts and art of
the craftsmen in the products. William Morris had a company called MORRIS and
CO in 1861 which the company
manufactured furniture stained glass and tapestry everything that the 19th
centaury needed in the homes of the families. The movement boosted the economy
and socially life’s of families and works of that time .It created a good moral
to the worker and to the quality of the products. New societies began to take
his ideas and it eventually was spread around the world as I mentioned in the
beginning .
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| William Morris |
The gothic revival also had an impact on the art and crafts
style strong form and colors applied to artists.
Charles Francis Annesley Voysey had a highly original style
which had to do with the arts and craft movement he created wallpapers designs
and prints with simple designs with flat colors.
Many involved in the arts and craft opened there own studio
to create simple daily used objects like pottery and textiles.
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| Art and Craft Interior |
The term mission style was also used to describe style of
the arts and craft in the US Charles S Greene Henry Greene were important arts and crafts designers in
California which focused on Spanish design.
We still are inspired form the art and craft movement as we
are interested from where the product is constructed and even the quality of
the products we buy although today there are allot of imitations from large
factories in china and imitations of the original product we still seek the
best quality and cherish the hand made object that are more to value.
When I see something hand made I always think how the person
crafted it and made it .The object
always carries something of value and when it actually made by to hand
not machines I consider it a piece of art .
Arts and Crafts movement -
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Founders Of The Arts & Crafts
Movement. 2015. Founders Of The Arts &
Crafts Movement. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.burrows.com/found.html.
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William Morris - The Arts and
Crafts Movement. 2015. William Morris - The Arts and
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