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The distinguishing ornamental characteristic of Art Nouveau is its undulating asymmetrical line, often taking the form of flower stalks and buds, vine tendrils, insect wings, and other delicate and sinuous natural objects; the line may be elegant and graceful or infused with a powerfully rhythmic and whiplike force. In the graphic arts the line subordinates all other pictorial elements—form ...
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Machine-printed wallpaper first appeared in 1840 at a firm of printers in Lancashire and, with the work of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement, created a revolution in wallpaper design. Morris' designs for the medium, which first appeared in 1862, were characterized by flat, stylized, naturalistic patterns and rich, subdued colours.
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Design history & movements. When you hear the phrase "arts and crafts," you might think of grade school projects involving construction paper, crayons, glue and glitter. But Arts and Crafts is also a historical aesthetic movement that was the go-to style of some of the most respected creatives of its time. Design by OrangeCrush.
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Profile. The Arts and Crafts Movement (ACM) aimed to promote a return to hand-craftsmanship and to assert the creative independence of individual craftspeople. It was a reaction against the industrialised society that had boomed in Britain in the Victorian period, and aimed for social as well as artistic reform.
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Written by MasterClass. Last updated: Sep 15, 2021 • 5 min read. The arts and crafts movement emerged in late nineteenth-century England as a way to challenge the deterioration of craft and the division of labor produced by the Industrial Revolution.
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The Arts and Crafts movement emerged during the late Victorian period in England, the most industrialized country in the world at that time. Anxieties about industrial life fueled a positive revaluation of handcraftsmanship and precapitalist forms of culture and society. Arts and Crafts designers sought to improve standards of decorative design, believed to have been debased by mechanization ...
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