Day 6

NOTES

John Ruskin, born 1819

philosophical leader of Arts and Crafts Movement

-Beginning of socialism

Idea that things are valuable because they are beautiful

Idea that a cathedral is a perfect building since it is created with multiple ideas harmonizing as one

“Topsy” William Morris

many of designs called medieval

lived with beauty=value idea

felt mass produced items weren’t as good as handmade ones

was a socialist

most known for his pattern work

was involved in book arts

would do every step in the process

create his own typeface

Audry Beardshy - art nouveau

the playboy of the art world

very influenced by Morris

felt industrialization had lots of problems but they aren’t all bad and that they should just fix it

Japanese print design influenced

Alphonse Mocha

first job doing liotgraphy

sets in motion what was later called art nouveau

listyal modern later called art nouveau

Characteristics

whiplash pieces of hair

tile work

trump-loy play with depth

flat abstract background

something playing with spacial relationship

an element of something exotic

People loved pattern

Forms go from trying to be realistic to more abstract

art nouveau slow to catch on in the US

Will Bradly - First art nouveau designer of the US

used abstract simple form

had wood cut from influenced

notice in art how he gets very full of himself

Advertising development

Jugendstil means youth style - art nouveau in german

Scotland - Glasgo school

Main four:

Margret McDonald

Francis McDonald

Herbert McNair

Charles Rina Macintosh 

Margret marries Charles 

Francis marries Herbert

Their style:

geometric

curverlinerar elements

rectilinear structure

floral decoration

symbolism

stylized forms

sessionstil - art nouveau of Australia

Klint and Moser 

ver sacrum (magazine)

Thoughts

Last week was a quiz so we jumped right into the next topic. It’s a little odd talking about the major people more that the stuff going on, but what ever. In the beginning of class we watch a video about William Morris that ended up being nearly an hour long. I found it to be okay. It was more entertaining than the other movies we have seen, but it still put some people to sleep.

Like I said, we started to concentrate on major people now which is move like the history classes that I’ve had in the past. It is still nothing like the Art History class I had at my last college, but I never expected it to.

At the end of class the teacher said that maybe we should hold class over spring break since we have so much to cover. Some people were actually agreeing, but there was no way I would agree, even in jest. Forget the fact that I won’t even be in the country for break, I’m still not enthralled with the subject.

Over all the day was okay. We talked briefly about with next step in the project and also got our test sheets back. I was annoyed because I only got one question wrong but I can’t complain too much since I did better than many. I was glad when class was over though, and thrilled it ended a few minutes early, since towards the end I started to get really sick. I was still able to take my notes fine, but I became completely miserable.

Questions

If there are any documentaries on the subjects we are learning by Discovery, the History Channel, or National Geographic could we watch those in class instead? They are made to be more interesting and might have more people paying attention.