Glasgow school - England
Vienna Succesion - Austria
Joseph Hoffman
Mussieur
-Make things that are useful
-showroom
-marks- sense of proportion and weight
-geometrical yet lyrical
Peter Behrens
-end of career work is more commercial
-first use of running text san serif
-early advocate of sans serif typography
-credited with first comprehensive identity program
-pioneered non-load bearing walls
-associated Mies Van Derrohe and Walter Gropies
first director of Bauhaus last director of Bauhaus respectfully
-Celebration of Art and Life
-recliner, abstract forms
-experimenting, sans serif becoming more blocky
-1903 becomes director of Kunstgewerberschule school
-1904 guy joins faculty, his thing is geometry
teaches composition based on geometry
-grid system
-1906 exhibition pavilion Peter Behrens uses that system
-1907 Behrens is made artistic director of AEG power company
-metaphor, honey comb, divisions of labor
three lynch pin components:
logo
type face
consistent layout
Underground Railway system
AIGA
Luscian Venard
-competition design for Priester matches
-plaketstiel
-poster style
-flat background, product and name
Julius Krieger
-war bond poster
The axis more graphic
The Allies use of illustration and information
touchy fealy
saccharine tastes
MOVIE
-The 1900s The Seeds of Progress
-Thomas Edison
-Henry Ford introduces mass production
-1901 buffalo exhibition
-electricity, light, engineering,
-Roosevelt considered progressive "square deal"
-muck rakers - the press, large exposes
-Uptain Sinclair - The Jungle
-Hull House in Chicago
-Jane Adams
-Mother Jones Carrie Nation - axe and chop bars into pieces
-Tourism
-Postcards to promote good natured envy
-Books for children became popular
-Wizard of Oz
-Nickelodeons became popular
-The great train robbery, based on butch cassidy
-scott joplin maple leaf rag
-1901 phonograph records
-the fabians reform
I see connections between Peter Behren's corporate identity system and the rise of manifestos, corporations, and a growing global consciousness. The clean economical systems of mass production steered design into new clean, bold designs to stand out from the crowd. I didn't really like the grid systems that Dorian showed in class. I think that they were taken too literally and I found the designs unappealing and uninspired. Also the ideal of having hand-made objects in the home has changed to having well designed pieces in the home such as Behrens stove pots.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Rudolf Koch
Germany
-interested in ideas of William Morris
-believes alphabet human kinds greatest achievement
-pinnacle of German typography
designed:
-Neuland (used for Caribbean and African things)
and decals and tattoos used by minorities
Art Nouveau
-younger artists take ideas of beauty and craft but mix with sex, etc
Jules Cheret
- father of modern poster
-early work: uses tromploy effects, theatre, entertainment speaks to middle class
-known for later posters, more related to gibson girls
-central female figure surrounded by elements and typography set around that
-contemporary of Toulouse Lautrec
Rival:
Eugene Grasset
-heavy line and flat panels of color (coloring book style or woodblock style)
-interest in eastern art, particularly block printing
Reductive styles are going to be more important to us
Arthur Mackmurdo
-century guild chair 1882
-whiplash lines, sensual lines
-high contrast
-chair crafted
-did magazine called Hobby Horse
printed 1880s, shows British arts and crafts to a larger audience
manifestos, people begin to band together
-another popular magazine was The Studio
Aubrey Beardsley
-edited by Walter Crane
Aubrey Beardsley does own illustrations for Morte d'Arthur,
-becomes famous by twenty // infante terible
influenced by Morris, Morris thought he had vulgarized the kelmscott style
Yellow Book
-symbol of outrageous
-victorians shocked by celebration of "evil"
Alphonse Mucha
-starts as illustrator born in Czech
-moves to Paris
-finds work working in a print shop
-1894 christmas eve, coworker wants day off
-Sarah Berghoff needs rush job
-elongated poster, practical choice
-less detail at bottom // ran out of time
-stylized reductive forms, plants, flowers, elements of folk art, byzantine, tiles, magic, occult
-whiplash tendrilsof hair
-pattern in background common device
pattern design very popular
Manuel Orazi
General Electric - art nouveau
Harpers Magazine
-hiring european arts
-cover printed in Paris
>>riffed/ stole<<
Louis Reed
-leading american art nouveau, embraces Eugene Grasset but also bright colors
William Bradley inspired by first Morris then Aubrey Beardsley
-The Inland Printer
-1895 photo mechanical technique
-1898 Bradley, his book - big ego
Popular illustration
Poster promoting harpers
Harper's illuminated bible
style evolved 1894
reductive style
Lippincotts competing magazine
asian motif, flat shapes
Pensville illustration
Henry van de Velde
-painter designer, architect
-Japanese and art nouveau
Henri Privat-Livemont
-inspired by Mucha
Jugendstil- Art nouveau in german
-Youth style
Peter Behrens
-member of Jugen
-the kiss
-whiplash lines, sensuous line, androgyny
its fun, young - art nouveau
becomes increasingly reductive
because of influence of asian design
leads us to Glasgow School
-Francis and Margett McDonald
-Herbert McNair
-Charles Renee McIntosh
-students 1890s
-geometric
-curvilinear elements
-rectilinear structure (rectangular)
-symbolism
-stylized forms
Talwin Morris
-book spines
-takes ideas of art students and commercializes
Austria
Vienna Secession
-Secession, austrian art nouveau
Gustav Klimt
Koloman Moser
Josef Hoffmann
-not concerned with legibility, concerned with the surface the aesthetic
-Magazine Yer Sacrum
-1898
Its interesting to learn about Art Nouveau, I've always been interested in it at a surface level. I see the connection between this stuff and what William Morris was doing. Its just that Art Nouveau is so much more sexy than William Morris. I also love poster design and this is such an iconic time for posters right now. Of course love the Mucha, who doesn't? From what I understood in class, students took the design ideas of Morris but then massed produced them in magazines, posters, etc. Kids is crazy.
Germany
-interested in ideas of William Morris
-believes alphabet human kinds greatest achievement
-pinnacle of German typography
designed:
-Neuland (used for Caribbean and African things)
and decals and tattoos used by minorities
Art Nouveau
-younger artists take ideas of beauty and craft but mix with sex, etc
Jules Cheret
- father of modern poster
-early work: uses tromploy effects, theatre, entertainment speaks to middle class
-known for later posters, more related to gibson girls
-central female figure surrounded by elements and typography set around that
-contemporary of Toulouse Lautrec
Rival:
Eugene Grasset
-heavy line and flat panels of color (coloring book style or woodblock style)
-interest in eastern art, particularly block printing
Reductive styles are going to be more important to us
Arthur Mackmurdo
-century guild chair 1882
-whiplash lines, sensual lines
-high contrast
-chair crafted
-did magazine called Hobby Horse
printed 1880s, shows British arts and crafts to a larger audience
manifestos, people begin to band together
-another popular magazine was The Studio
Aubrey Beardsley
-edited by Walter Crane
Aubrey Beardsley does own illustrations for Morte d'Arthur,
-becomes famous by twenty // infante terible
influenced by Morris, Morris thought he had vulgarized the kelmscott style
Yellow Book
-symbol of outrageous
-victorians shocked by celebration of "evil"
Alphonse Mucha
-starts as illustrator born in Czech
-moves to Paris
-finds work working in a print shop
-1894 christmas eve, coworker wants day off
-Sarah Berghoff needs rush job
-elongated poster, practical choice
-less detail at bottom // ran out of time
-stylized reductive forms, plants, flowers, elements of folk art, byzantine, tiles, magic, occult
-whiplash tendrilsof hair
-pattern in background common device
pattern design very popular
Manuel Orazi
General Electric - art nouveau
Harpers Magazine
-hiring european arts
-cover printed in Paris
>>riffed/ stole<<
Louis Reed
-leading american art nouveau, embraces Eugene Grasset but also bright colors
William Bradley inspired by first Morris then Aubrey Beardsley
-The Inland Printer
-1895 photo mechanical technique
-1898 Bradley, his book - big ego
Popular illustration
Poster promoting harpers
Harper's illuminated bible
style evolved 1894
reductive style
Lippincotts competing magazine
asian motif, flat shapes
Pensville illustration
Henry van de Velde
-painter designer, architect
-Japanese and art nouveau
Henri Privat-Livemont
-inspired by Mucha
Jugendstil- Art nouveau in german
-Youth style
Peter Behrens
-member of Jugen
-the kiss
-whiplash lines, sensuous line, androgyny
its fun, young - art nouveau
becomes increasingly reductive
because of influence of asian design
leads us to Glasgow School
-Francis and Margett McDonald
-Herbert McNair
-Charles Renee McIntosh
-students 1890s
-geometric
-curvilinear elements
-rectilinear structure (rectangular)
-symbolism
-stylized forms
Talwin Morris
-book spines
-takes ideas of art students and commercializes
Austria
Vienna Secession
-Secession, austrian art nouveau
Gustav Klimt
Koloman Moser
Josef Hoffmann
-not concerned with legibility, concerned with the surface the aesthetic
-Magazine Yer Sacrum
-1898
Its interesting to learn about Art Nouveau, I've always been interested in it at a surface level. I see the connection between this stuff and what William Morris was doing. Its just that Art Nouveau is so much more sexy than William Morris. I also love poster design and this is such an iconic time for posters right now. Of course love the Mucha, who doesn't? From what I understood in class, students took the design ideas of Morris but then massed produced them in magazines, posters, etc. Kids is crazy.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
William Morris
William Morris continued,
Jenni Morris invalid, "water treatment"
Morris and company wallpapers - still used today
old style dyes
tapestry , hobby of sorts
Arts and crafts movement
John Ruskin - how can we restructure society
People start having Utopian ideas
rejects mercantile economy
union of art and labor - your works should be in service of society
!!gothic cathedral!! - artisans and craftsman come together
Bauhaus also point to the cathedral
John Ruskin is philosophical leader
machine is bad then logic says the hand is good- return to the medieval
Morris tries to implement the ideas of Ruskin in the factory
how can a worker find joy once again in their work
Flaw - Hand made crafts are more expensive
resurgence in book arts as a reaction to industrialization (Fredeck Gaudie)
John Morris designs:
-Golden used to print The Golden Type
-Troy black letter
-Chaucer (smaller version of Troy)
establishes Kelmscott press
Art Nouveau driven by young people influenced by the arts and crafts movement
Bruce Rodgers type designer, rejected modernism, revered book designer
The Roycrofters – group of people started in 1895 by Elbert Hubbard
Was American expression of arts and crafts - is more pragmatic
this happens time and time again
Although it doesn't make financial sense, I admire the idea of the arts and crafts movement. I think there is a place for both the hand crafted and for assembly line products because people have different values. It would be impractical to have everything be hand made, the other side to that is manufactured goods can be too impersonal. What I also admire William Morris for is the variety of work he produced, that is something I would like to apply to my career. William Morris's story makes me ask hard questions of my life. Things like what do I value? Will being engrossed in my craft make me happy or in the end will it mean nothing, pushing people away. Happy thoughts like that, maybe Bauhaus will be more cheerful :)
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