5.4 design movements

Question 1

What year was the Arts and Crafts movement?

Answer 1

1850-1900

Question 2

What was the key point of the arts and crafts movement?

Answer 2

To use traditional crafts instead of machinery

Question 3

What were the influences/ inspirations for the Arts and Crafts movement?

Answer 3

-It was a reaction to the loss of traditional skills in the victorian era due to the industrial revolution.

-It was influenced by medieval craft guilds, simplicity, natural forms and the beauty of timber.

Question 4

What were features of the Arts and Crafts movement?

Answer 4

-It used honest, handmade methods like tenon joints.
-It displayed the beauty of materials like the grain of wood.
-Used natural forms on tiles, wallpaper and textiles.

Question 5

Name a key figure in the Arts and Crafts movement.

Answer 5

William Morris

Question 6

What is William Morris’ famous quote?

Answer 6

‘Have nothing in ur houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.’

Question 7

How did William Morris help the arts and crafts movement?

Answer 7

him and John Ruskin formed they’re own design/ decoration company in which they specialised in the use of natural materials and traditional craftsmanship.

• He also helped to set up workers’ guilds to empower designers creating their own products.

Question 8

What year was the Art Nouveau design movement between?

Answer 8

1890-1905

Question 9

What influenced/inspired the Art Nouveau movement?

Answer 9

-Designers wanted a unified approach to design.
-it was inspired by oriental (mainly japanese) art and interior designs.
-was also influenced by the availability of newly developed/ improved materials like iron, steel, and concrete was used instead of stone and wood.
-it was influenced by the beauty of organic forms of plants and languid female forms.

Question 10

Define languid

Answer 10

weak or faint

Question 11

Define languid

Answer 11

weak or faint

Question 12

What were features of the Art Nouveau movement?

Answer 12

-It had a motif of plants and languid female figures with long, loose hair and flowing dresses.
-Curves
-Nature

Question 13

Who was the key figure of the Art Nouveau movement?

Answer 13

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Question 14

What did Charles Rennie Mackintosh do?

Answer 14

-He was a designer and his designs showed evidence of japanese and arts and crafts influences.
-He designed the Glasgow school of Art

Question 15

What year was the Bauhaus movement between?

Answer 15

1919-1933

Question 16

What was the main point of the bauhaus movement?

Answer 16

-The bauhaus movement took a machine approach to ‘form follows function’

Question 17

What influenced/inspired the Bauhaus movement?

Answer 17

-It was influenced by the Post-first world war idealism and the abolition of censorship.
-WW1 industrial methods and materials
-Geometric forms

Question 18

What are features of the bauhaus movement?

Answer 18

-It was founded as an art school and closed later on due to pressure from the Nazis.
-It followed form over function
-Rejected the liberal use of decorations
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