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