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In order, can you place the design movements in the correct sequence? |
Arts and Crafts - (1850-1900) Art Nouveau - (1890-1905) Modernism - (1900-1930) Bauhaus - (1919-1933) Art Deco - (1925-1939) Streamlining - (1935-1955) Post Modernism - (1975-Present day) |
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1850-1900 |
Arts and Crafts
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Arts and Crafts |
Grew out of a concern for the effects of industrialisation upon design, traditional craftsmanship and the lives of ordinary 'working class' people. |
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John Ruskin |
Theorist and critic who examined the relationship between art, society and labour. Co-founder of the Arts and Crafts movement.
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William Morris |
Poet, designer, writer, innovator and socialist. Co-founder of the Arts and Crafts movement.
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Key style elements of the Arts and Crafts movement. |
Simplicity, splendour, nature, colour and texture.
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"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." |
William Morris, 'The Beauty of Life' 1880.
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1890-1905 |
Art Nouveau
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Art Nouveau Sagrada Família, Barcelona |
An international style of decoration and architecture that developed in the late 19th century. Forms a bridge between the Arts and Crafts movement and Modernism.
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Key style elements of Art Nouveau |
Nature, the female form, other cultures.
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh |
Key member of the 'Glasgow Four' who created the 'Glasgow style' of Art Nouveau, which influenced many designers throughout Europe.
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Glasgow School of Art |
Architectural project that gained Mackintosh an international reputation in 1896.
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1900-1930 |
Modernism
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Modernism |
Designers (originating with architects) who rejected the old styles of designing based upon natural form and materials.
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The 'modern aesthetic' |
Celebrated new technology, mechanised industry and modern materials and rejected decorative motifs and the embellishment of surfaces with 'art', preferring to emphasise the materials used and pure geometric forms.
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1919-1933 |
Bauhaus
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Bauhaus |
A school of art and design in Weimar, Germany opened after the First World War which combined all of the arts in unity and was headed by Walter Gropius.
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Philosophy of Bauhaus |
The base for any art was found in handicraft and there was no distinction between fine art and applied art.
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Key style elements of Bauhaus |
Form follows function, products for a machine age, everyday objects for everyday people.
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Marcel Breuer |
Studied at the Bauhaus, designer of the Wassily chair. |
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Wassily chair |
Revolutionary in the use of materials, this product was only possible because a German steel manufacturer had recently perfected a process for mass producing seamless steel tubing. |
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1925-1939 |
Art Deco
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Art Deco Chrysler Building, New York |
The architectural and decorative arts style that emerged in France in the 1920s. An eclectic style that drew on tradition and yet simultaneously celebrated the mechanised modern world.
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Key style elements of Art Deco |
Geometric forms, primitive arts, machine age.
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Who was Eileen Gray? |
Furniture designer, interior decorator and architect who designed E-1027 |
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1935-1955 |
Streamlining |
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Streamlining |
A new style that emerged towards the end of Art Deco that was influenced by the modern aerodynamic designs which were derived from advancing technologies in aviation and high-speed transportation. |
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Key style elements of streamlining
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Teardrop shape, futuristic design.
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Who was Raymond Loewy |
One of the best known industrial designers of the 20th century. Influenced countless aspects of American life by designing products ranging from cigarette packaging to locomotives and spaceship interiors.
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1975-present day |
Post-modernism
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Post-modernism |
A movement that began with architecture as a reaction against the perceived blandness and hostility present in modernist architecture as preached by the Bauhaus.
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Memphis group |
Italian group of designers and architects who created products in the 1980s that were vibrant, eccentric and ornamental. |
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Key style elements of New Design |
Humour and personality, 'retro' design, deconstruction |
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Philippe Starck |
Well known French designer working in the New Design style.
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Alessi |
Italian company that Starck designed for. |