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ARTS  AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT The Arts and Crafts movement began at around 1880 in Britain, then spread to Europe, Japen and America. The men who are considered to be the fathers of this movement are John Ruskin and William Morris  ( Victoria and Albert Museum. 2016) .  William Morris, Trellis wallpaper, 1862. (Wikimedia Commons. 2008) The Arts and Crafts movement believed that the Industrial Revolution had taken over what was once man's job and in a way made man less productive and creative because the machines did almost everything. This movement aimed on bringing back 'manual labor' in the making of arts and crafts. This movement was basically anti-industrial revolution ( V. Ryan. 2007) . This movement utilises patterns, repeatition, organic/geometric shapes (as shown from the above image). Nature was an important source to this movement thus the use of floral patterns in most of artwork that fall under this movement.  CONTEMPORARY WORK INSPIRED

I N T R O D U C T I O N In this blog I will be collecting and analysing images of artworks from the postmodernism movements: ● Arts and Craft movement  ● Impressionism and Post impressionism  ● Art Nouveau  ● The Glasgow Four and Viennese Secession  ● Futurism  ● Cubism  ● Expressionism  ● Dada  ● Surrealism  ● De Stijl  ● Constructivism  ● Bauhaus  ● Abstract expressionism  ● Pop Art And I'll also be collecting  contemporary  images that I feel were inspired by the above mentioned movements and the reason the reason I think so. Since at the end of each lesson we'll be required to do research and analys images of artworks from each of the above movements, this will help give me a better and more detailed understanding of the movements.