Design History Flashcards
What design movement occurred from 1750 - 1850?
Industrial Revolution
Name a famous designer and product from this period
Boulton and Watt steam engine 1763
Corliss steam engine 1876
Mechanised production
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel • Great Western Railway • Steamships • The first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship • Bridges and tunnels. Clifton Suspension Bridge 1831, Paddington Station 1854, SS Great Britain 1845
What principles was the industrial revolution based upon?
- Textiles
- Steam power
- Iron making
- Machine tools
- Gas lighting standardised manufacturing
From 1850 - 1914, what design movement occurred?
Arts & Crafts Movement
Name a famous designer and product from this period
Crystal Palace (built for the 1851 Great Exhibition) Joseph Paxton
William Morris – “we do not reject the machine, we welcome it, but we would like to see it mastered”
Wiener Werkstatte (Vienna workshop 1903 -1932) (Joseph Hoffman) chair, cutlery and kettle
Charles Rennie Macintosh (Scottish style)
Christopher Dresser – kettles
Name the principles of this period
Rebellion against industrial revolution
• Return to craftsmanship
• Valued art in the practice of design
• Preference for simpler, organic forms from nature
What period did the Art Nouveau movement become prominent?
1880 - 1940
What is the principle of Art Nouveau?
A response to the industrial revolution:
welcomes technical progress
embraces aesthetics of new materials
applying high standards of craftsmanship and design
Famous designers/products?
Monceau metro entrance by Hector Guimard
Victor Horta
Alexandre Charpentier 1901
Charles Rennie Macintosh – Scottish art nouveau – liberty chair – willow chair – Glasgow school of art – house for an art lover
Catalan art nouveau - Antoni Gaudí, Casa Batlló, 1877,
Palau Guell gate, 1886, Sagrada Família, 1882 – 2010 (gothic church)
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) Vienna Secession, Karlsplatz station
What movement occurred from 1897 - 1905?
Vienna Secession Modernism
What are the principles of this movement?
Utopian desire to create a better world
• Eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts.
• Harmony of form and function
• Dismissal of frivolous ornament minimalism is a design or style where the simplest and fewest elements are used to create the maximum effect
Deutscher Werkbund occurred in what period?
1907 - 1935
From 1909-1930, what design movement became prominent?
Futurism
And what were there principles?
Artistic and social movement originating from Italy. Emphasized futuristic concepts, including speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such as the car and plane.
Name a designer and product from this period
Umberto Boccioni: Forces of the Street 1911
Giacomo Balla 1909
Tullio Crali, 1939
Tullio Crali, 1930
Ivo Pannaggi, Speeding Train (Treno in corsa), 1922
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Antonio Sant’Elia 1912-‐14
1916 - 1923 period?
Dada
1917 - 1935 period?
Constructivism
1917 - 1931 period?
De Stijl
Define the De Stijl movement
Neoplasticism:
- pure abstraction and universality
- reduction to the essentials of form and colour
- simplified visual compositions to vertical and horizontal directions
- used only PRIMARY colours and BLACK & WHITE
Name a product and designer of De Stijl
Piet Gerit Rietveld – Red and Blue Chair, 1917 – Rietveld Schröder House, 1924