arts and craft movement

IMPACT FROM INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

• Machine replaced craftsman

• Faster & cheaper production

• Critical eye and artistry of the craftsman was sacrificed for speed

• Working and living condition of the lower classes
  

• Industrial capitalism

social problems

• Machine replaced craftsman

• Faster & cheaper production

• Critical eye and artistry of the craftsman was sacrificed for speed

• Working and living condition of the lower classes
  

• Industrial capitalism

DECLINE OF DESIGN QUALITY

• Critics found industrialized methods to be shoddy, poorly
  designed

• Superfluous ornaments did not enhance the products

• Over-decoration, tasteless, and over capitalistic society

• Decline in creativity and design by engineers without
  aesthetic concern

• started to highlight that function is more important than design

ARTS & CRAFT MOVEMENT

WHEN

ARTS & CRAFT MOVEMENT

WHERE

ARTS & CRAFT MOVEMENT

FOUNDER

definition: attempt to reform ----- in mid-19th century Britain

PHILOSOPHY by

PHILOSOPHY

A fitness of --

truth to the ---- of materials and

--- of production

--- expression by both designer and worker

The first finely printed magazine devoted exclusively to
the visual arts.