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Arts and Craft Movement
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Key Artists: Charles Mackintosh and William Morris. British movement that featured simplicity and clear function. It was a reaction to Victorian Decoration. -
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Aesthetic Movement
Key Artists: William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti Inspired by Japanese woodcuts and Eastern furnishings. Focussed on interiors and objects to improve quaility of life. Did not have any form of practical use or purpose, as Oscar Wilde said, "Art for art's sake" Aesthetic movement-Image -
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Art Nouveau
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Key artists: Aubrey Beardsley, Antoni Gaudi.
Art Nouveau was a conscious attempt at modernism and a departure from traditional Victorian forms of design, most of which looked back to the past for inspiration. There was an emphasis on decoration and artistic unity based on organic and flowings shapes or form. -
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Futurism
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Key Artists: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Giacomo Balla & Umberto Boccioni. Futurism portrayed the dynamic character of 20th century life, glorified war and the machine age, and favoured the growth of Fascism. Futurism had radical design movements and embraced technology. Written and printed words were central. -
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De Stilj
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Key artist: Piet Mondrian
An art movement advocating pure abstraction and simplicity-- form reduced to the rectangle and other geometric shapes, and colour to the primary colours, along with black and white. -
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Bauhaus
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Key Artist: Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger.
A school of art, design and architecture founded in Germany in 1919. Bauhaus style is characterized by its severely economic, geometric design and by its respect for materials. -
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Art Deco
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Key Artists: William van Alen, Joan-Gardy Artigas & Leonetto Cappiello.
An art movement involving a mix of modern decorative art styles, largely of the 1920s and 1930s, whose main characteristics were derived from various avant-garde painting styles of the early twentieth century. Art deco works exhibit abstraction, distortion, and simplification, particularly geometric shapes anintense colors. -
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Pop
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Key Artists: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Roy Hamilton, Jasper Johns.
British and Italian design movement of the 1960s which was characterized by its use of bright colours, expressive forms, synthetic materials, and throwaway objects. -
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Postmodernism
Postmodernism ImageKey Artists: Stephen McKenna, Carlo Maria Mariani,Peter Blake and David Hockney.
The name given to a wide range of cultural phenomena, to characterise a move away from the 'highbrow' seriousness of modernism, preferring a more eclectic and populist approach to creativity.
The term came into common use in the 1970s. It is used both as a 'stylistic' term and also as a period designation. -
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Memphis
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Key Artists: Ettore Sottsass, Alessandro Mendini, Martine Bedin, and others.
The Memphis Group was an Italian design and architecture group started by Ettore Sottsass that designed Post Modern furniture, fabrics, ceramics, glass and metal objects. Blurred boundaries of design through highly decorative forms, bold colors and patterns.