Arts and Crafts and Mediation


Arts and Crafts and Mediation

Definition

The arts and crafts movement was an idealism that was most profound and influential that all began in Britain during the 1880’s which quickly spread across America and Europe before emerging eventually as the Mingei (Folk Craft) which was a movement that happened in Japan (www.vam.ac.uk/the arts and crafts movement)

Whereas mass mediation refers to what we as people do and utilise the media, whereby a cultural space is created to catch a viewer consumer attention and possibly decision-making Silverstone (2006) explains. Mass mediation is most of the time communicated outside of the face to face boundaries and is constantly and is in simple words the process of altering media before it gets sent out to the public at the aim to give off a specific reaction or receive one from a consumer mass mediation include sources such as the (television, radio, the internet and so forth),

(Larsson, no: 2012).



Important people who played a role in the development of this influential movement

·         William Morris

·          Edward Burne-Jones.

·         J.S. Ford

·         Crane, Walter

·         Edgar Wood

·         Karl Parsons

·         Julia Morgan

·         Fisher, Alexander

·         Maybeck, Bernard

·         Morris, William

·         Nakashima, George

·         Pavon, John

·         Webb, Philip

·         Whall, Christopher





Art work examples:

A room decorated in the Arts and Crafts style by William Morris, with furniture by Philip Webb.

Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, photograph, John Webb https://www.britannica.com/art/Arts-and-Crafts-movement




William Morris, drawing by C.M. Watts, c. 1895. This portrait was used to illustrate the article “The Aesthetes” by Thomas F. Plowman in the Pall Mall Gazette in January 1895.

The Mansell Collection/Art Resource, New York

 

vase and bowl from the Paul Revere Pottery

Vase (1915) and bowl (1917) produced by the Saturday Evening Girls, a group of women who operated the Paul Revere Pottery in Boston. Paul Revere Pottery is one of the early 20th-century U.S. potteries that exemplifies the American Arts and Crafts movement.

PRNewsFoto/Winter Antiques Show/AP Images










Analyses Old and Modern artwork.

Death of King Harold - a detail from the Bayeux Tapestry (1075)




The Bayeux tapestry artwork is made from a linen band that has colours and designs woven into the cloth using wool yarn. The design is stitched in two ways: outline/stem stitch to create the lettering and the outlines of the figures, and the second one couching/laid work stitching for the rest. The borders are decorated with images of animals, hunting and rural life. Colours used on the cloth are mainly blue, green, gold and terracotta. This textile artwork is 19.50 inches in width and 231 feet in length, that was created with the purpose to show significant events that occurred in Norman Conquest of England.





Contemporary artwork
Dimension: 100 x 180•250 x H75 (cm)
Material: Golden Teak, Ash, Steel
SKU: AMU-01 Categories: Indoor, Table Tag: AMUR
DESIGNER: Plato, (2011-2018)




As old as the arts and craft movement is, it has evolved a great deal over the past decades to become one of the most known, used and liked style even in the present times. The arts and craft style can be and has been used to create anything from architecture, decorative art, glass, textile art, wallpapers, furniture to even basic house hold goods (www.bbc.co.uk/homes/design/period_artscrafts.html, 2018).



The craft at hand is designed by an arts and craft company called Plato which creates furniture from scratch with material, design and style influenced by the arts and craft movement. The furniture is handmade from scratch and made from natural fine wood and steel legs for strength. Although the furniture may not have the typical arts and crafts movement characteristics: stylised flowers, allegories from the bible and literature, Celtic motifs and upside hearts. It does however have natural woods patterns as well as a whole cross hatch pattern shape that forms the whole chair, which for the most part does ultimately serve as a simple form of ornamentation (www.bbc.co.uk/homes/design/period_artscrafts.html, 2018)







Reference list

·         Cathers, David M. Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The New American Library, Inc., 1981. ISBN 0453003974

·         Cumming, Elizabeth. Hand, Heart and Soul: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland. Birlinn, 2006. ISBN 978-1841584195.

·         Kaplan, Wendy. "The Art that is Life," The Arts & Crafts Movement in America, 1875– 1920. Bulfinch Press, 1998. ISBN 9780821225547

·         http://www.bbc.co.uk/homes/design/period_artscrafts.shtml


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