2 - Design influences, styles and movements - Arts and crafts

Question 1

Arts and Crafts influences

Answer 1

• Response to the loss of traditional skills, and the overuse of ornamentation due to the Industrial Revolution

Question 2

When was the Arts and Craft movement?

Answer 2

1850-1900

Question 3

Arts and Crafts inspirations

Answer 3

• Medieval craft guilds/ groups
• Natural forms
• Beauty of timber

Question 4

Arts and Crafts features

Answer 4

• Patterned, natural forms on tiles, wallpaper, textiles
• Focus on the beauty of natural materials, with the gran and figure of oak clearly visible
• Traditional methods, such as tenon joints and pegged mortise

Question 5

Arts and Crafts designers

Answer 5

• William Morris

Also Charles Voysey, Richard Normal Shaw