Design Movements,

Question 1

Arts and crafts influences

Answer 1

A reaction to the loss of traditional skills as a result of the Industrial Revolution

Question 2

Arts and crafts inspirations

Answer 2

Medieval craft guilds, simplicity, natural forms, beauty of natural materials

Question 3

Arts and crafts designers

Answer 3

William morris
Charles voysey
Richard Norman shaw

Question 4

Arts and craft features

Answer 4

Honest, handmade, traditional methods
Beauty of materials such s the grain clearly displayed
Use of patterned, natural forms on tiles, wallpaper and textiles

Question 5

Art deco influences and inspirations

Answer 5

End of ww1, aspirational consumers, popularity of growths and travel, and growth of mass production
Discovery of tutankahmuns tomb in 1922
Range of international styles such as Egyptian temples, Aztec motifs and African carvings

Question 6

Art deco features

Answer 6

Ziggurat stepped decorations and building styles
Sunburst motifs
Stylised, geometrical form of products
Bold colours as well as black and chrome

Question 7

Art deco designers

Answer 7

Clarice cliff
Eileen gray
Rene Lalique
Walter Darwin Teague

Question 8

Memphis influences and inspirations

Answer 8

A Milan based collective of designers rebelling against the functionality of modernism

Question 9

Memphis features

Answer 9

Playful, bold, bright, colourful designs that often overlooked functionality
Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic features
Juxtapositions of geometric forms

Question 10

Memphis designers

Answer 10

Ettore sottsass
Michele de lucchi
Martine bedine

Question 11

Bauhaus influences and inspirations

Answer 11

Post world war idealism
Ww1 industrial methods and materials
Geometrically pure forms

Question 12

Bauhaus features

Answer 12

Started as an art school by water gropious
Form follows function - rejecting use of decoration
Embraced mass production to create everyday products for everyday people, using modern materials such as tubular steel

Question 13

Bauhaus designers

Answer 13

Walter gropious
Marcel Breuer
Marianne Brandt
Mies van der rohe

Question 14

When was arts and crafts

Answer 14

1850 - 1900

Question 15

When was art deco

Answer 15

1925 - 1940

Question 16

When was Bauhaus

Answer 16

1919 - 1933

Question 17

Why were ziggurats used in art deco

Answer 17

Orphan scene on buildings especially skyscrapers where they were restricted by the 1916 zoning resolution to reduced impact on light visible on the streets below.

Question 18

Streamlining

Answer 18

The development of products using flowing curves and chrome detailing inspired by the increased study into aerodynamics in the early 20th century