Arts & Crafts


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 BY THIS MOVEMENT



sakir gokcebag, geomatric watermelon, 2012


Sakir also gets his inspiration from nature, he uses food to create geomatric and organic shapes that create a pattern, this is similar work to the Arts and Crafts movement's work.
He also embodies the same believe of the Arts and Crafts movement artists/designers, which is creating art/craft with his hands (manually), the difference of his work to the Arts and Crafts works is that his work is done manually but is distributed digitally to the masses.











Sources consulted

Victoria and Albert Museum. 2016. Arts & Crafts. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/a/arts-and-crafts/. [Accessed 23 February 2017].

Wikimedia Commons. 2008. Arts & Crafts. [ONLINE] Available at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Morris_design_for_Trellis_wallpaper_1862.jpg. [Accessed 23 February 2017].

V. Ryan. 2007. THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT 1880 to 1910. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.technologystudent.com/prddes1/artscrafts1.html. [Accessed 23 February 2017].

Designboom. 2015. geometric food art by sakir gökçebag. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.designboom.com/art/geometric-food-art-by-sakir-gokcebag/. [Accessed 23 February 2017].

Comments

  1. D.Steyn12 April 2017 at 04:59

    Thank you for your submission. A good concise discussion about the Arts and Craft movement, although you could have explained why they used those specific stylistic traits. A very interesting and brave choice of contemporary artwork. Your argument could have been a little more developed but you did convince me in principle. Be mindful of your layout and don’t leave such big open spaces. Make sure that your formatting remains consistent throughout.

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