Graphic Design History Mid Term Pt. 1

Art movement descriptions and the first few artists in the list.

Aesthetic Movement

privileged the aesthetic value of literature, music and the arts over their socio-political functions

Arts and Crafts Movement

a belief in craftsmanship which stresses the inherent beauty of the material, the importance of nature as inspiration, and the value of simplicity, utility, and beauty.

Art Deco

reflect admiration for the modernity of the machine and for the inherent design qualities of machine-made objects— e.g. : relative simplicity, planarity, symmetry, and unvaried repetition of elements.

Art Nouveau

sinuous, sculptural, organic shapes, arches, curving lines, and sensual ornamentation.

Constructivism

focused on industrial production. Constructivists used stripped down, geometric forms and modest materials.

DADA

rejected the logic, reason, and aestheticism of modern capitalist society, instead expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest in their works.

De Stijl

Clean lines, right angles, and primary colors

Expressionism

Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas

Futurism

It emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city.

Japonisme

Western artist love to fetishize asian culture :)

Purism

proposed a kind of painting in which objects are represented as powerful basic forms stripped of detail.

Sachplakat

The common characteristics of this style are bold eye-catching lettering with flat colors

Symbolism

suggested ideas through symbols and emphasized the meaning behind the forms, lines, shapes, and colors.

Vienna Secession

often utilized whiplash curves and floral motifs. It also took influence from the Arts and Crafts movement and utilized similar organic ornamental designs as Jugendstil. Secessionists embraced geometry and abstract elements

Owen Jones

Thomas Nast

William Morris

Arthur H. Mackmurdo

Jules Cheret

Eugene Grasset

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec