ARTH 3060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Arts And Crafts Movement, Mark Rothko, Decorative Arts
2 Mar 2017
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(cid:498)outsider(cid:499) public (cid:523)? (cid:524) art: accounting for the folk: folk art, craft, and material. Folk & the arts & crafts movement (1860-1910) British isles spread through europe and north america. Was a reaction about the poor conditions of art (arts & crafts) Domestic arts (carving, weaving, wall print design etc. ) Decorative arts were not being valued and no critical analysis of works. Folk art studied using the methods like the arts and crafts movement. Argue that artist chose what they believed at the time primitive cultures. Modern art that alludes modernized elements (settler observations) Artist were thought to be untrained (but they actually were) It is characterized by its simplicity (na ve style) The modern: abstract, non-object, automatistes & geometric abstraction. 20th century start to see folk art more painting qualities, express the idea of place with vertical band of colour to activate the surface of the canvas, explored the zip (symmetrical band of colour)
