Lecture 4 (change/style) Flashcards
Who was owen jones
1809-1874
- was an architect, designer, educator and writer
- was a leading advocate for the global study of ornament
- his 1856 work the grammar of ornament was hugely influential but removed cultural context from the study of form
- The font used in grammar ornament was used from the true beauty of gothic
who was william moris
1834-1887
- advocated for the return to traditional studieo and atelier practices
- influenced by ruskin and romanticized medieval culture and rural
- was a champion of handmade objects
- fought for a return for small studio objects, rather a scaled individual for the necessary of producing an object od dignity and by hand, no exploited labour, no cheap goods, no domesticated
- his anti industrialization was romaticized for the folk,interested people who lived in small villages who couldn’t mend or fix things
- produced the lines of sussex chairs
- his rosetti chair is an antique modern object, implies more with the seat than the wooden frame
- made a career out of textiles, was interested in the aesthetics of china and japan
- great control of the natural form
Who was charles locke eastlake
1836-1906
argued for the progressive od design
- championed the idea of domestic hygiene and advocated for the design furniture that was intended to aid healthfulness
- argued for a type of clean house
who was christopher dresser?
all in the context of the aesthetic movement
- became the most important cultural agent of his age ; his vast knowledge of historical styles and global aestheitics and their contexts and because of his deeply technical understanding of mass production
- was a author, theorist and designer
- was a student of owen jones
- his text highlights the night of sciene is we’re coming to an age of scientific desing
- he was an advocate of studying the national world as he originally was a botanist
- his text highlight the theory of design by applying the knowledge of nature to design, his experts of botany serves as industrial design revolution
- advances his argument of necessity of decoration
the art of decorative design
- stylized cover showing a type of vine but symmetrical and slightly abstracted
- dresser is a champion of ornamentation
- his theory of to translate the national world into patterns
- ornamentation should not be seen as a crisis but as an important opportunity
persian bottle
- the idea of taking islamic decoration and applying utiliarian
moon flask
- direct appropriation from china
principles of decorative design
- largely abstract but can see natural forms that are unrecognizable
Who was william de morgan
1839-1917
- looked to the islamic world for inspiration, particularly izmic pottery
- borrowed patterning and form from islamic
- are moving towards an art nouveau, representation and what inspiration could be derived from what source
- a type of medievalism
who was henry van de velde
1863-1957
- call to utiliarianism
- designer of many talent
tropon poster
- art nouveau poster advertising eggs
- gail davidson talks about van de velde gives the aesthetic of art de nouveau, create lines
- the argument that is made van de velde use of patterning is tied to the treatment of indigenous people in the continent of africa
- applies his design thinking to the consuming
- consumers are lazy and uninformed and it is up to the designers to bring their attention to the matter of belgium
- uses an aesthetic within his poster that highlights the issue which occured in Belgium
- communication with the consumers within his design/poster
- gives this visual power, the average consumer which was not know but an average consumer in belgium would know
- every design exercise has the potential for excavating social issues to consumers
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