Movements in Art and Design

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    The Aesthetic Movement

    ImageThis movement was inspired by Japanese woodcuts and Eastern furnishings, it is represented as natural, beautiful and Anglo-oriental style. Focused on interiors and object to improve the quality of life. This includes literature, fine art, furniture, metalwork, ceramics, stained glass and textiles.
    William Powell Frith and James Abbott McNeill Whistler are two key artists in this movement.
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    Art Nouveau

    [Wren's City Churches](<a href='http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/28/MackmurdoWren1883.gif/475px-MackmurdoWren1883.gif)475px-MackmurdoWren1883.gif' >Image</a>Art Nouveau is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art especially the decorative arts. It explores a new style in the visual arts and architecture that developed in Europe and North America at the end of the nineteenth century. It was developed by a brilliant and energetic generation of artists and designers including St. Petersburg and Arthur Mackmurdo.
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    Futurism

    The City Rises by Umberto BoccioniRadical design movements - one of the first, Embraced technological process in that era. It emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane and the industrial city. It was largely an Italian phenomenon, though there were parallel movements in Russia, England and elsewhere. Two known artists are Giacomo Balla and Umberto Boccioni.
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    New Objectivity

    The Night by Max Beckmann It was a movement leaded by Stieglitz at his 291 gallery and the photo-secession group trying to detach from pictorial photography towards straight photography. It wasn't a matter of objects, lighting or scenes but on how the audeince focus on the images in a photographic way of expression. It was a grungey and dark tone of movement as it depicted the traditional aspect of German life.
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    Constructivism

    Tatlin's TowerConstructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1919, which was a rejection of the idea of autonomous art in favour of art as a practice for social purposes. Constructivism had a great effect on modern art movements of the 20th century, influencing major trends such as Bauhaus and the De Stijl movement. Artists in this movement include Mayakovsky and Anton Stankowski.
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    Art Deco

    The Musician by Tamara De LempickaApplication of simple, geometric design and common combinations of bright vibrant colours and solid shapes. is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and jewelry, as well as the visual arts such as painting, graphic arts and film. Artists include Bevis Hillier and Lempicka.
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    Streamlining

    The architecture of Normandie HotelApplying sleek, rounded and smoothly finished forms like that of transport ships, trains & aircraft. It was a late type of the Art Deco design style which emerged during the 1930s. Its architectural style emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements. A common example is the Normandie Hotel inspired by the SS Normandie designed by Raúl Reichard.
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    Pop

    Campbell's Tomato Juice Box by Andy WarholPop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art. Known artists are Richard Hamilton and Andy Warhol.
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    Postmodernism

    Portrait of a Seated Woman by Umberto BoccioniPostmodernism rejects the idea of objective truth and universal social progress. Starting with the 18th century Enlightenment, and for more than a century, there was widespread belief that science, and knowledge, would improve the world. Postmodernism has influenced many cultural fields, including literary criticism, philosophy, sociology, linguistics, architecture, visual arts, and music. Known artists include Chris Burden and Umberto Boccioni
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    Memphis

    Gioiosa by Aldo CibicMemphis was a Milan-based collective of young furniture and product designers led by the veteran Ettore Sottsass. After its 1981 debut, Memphis dominated the early 1980s design scene with its post-modernist style. They discovered furniture made from the flashily coloured plastic laminates emblazoned with kitsch geometric and leopard-skin patterns usually found in 1950s comic books or cheap cafés. Artists include Michele de Lucci and Aldo Cibic.