French Art Crafts

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The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America. Initiated in reaction against the perceived impoverishment of the decorative arts and the conditions in which they were produced, the movement flourished in Europe and North America between about 1880 and 1920. Some consider that it is the root of the Modern Style, a British expression of what later came to be called the Art Nouveau movement. Others consider that it is the incarnation of Art Nouveau in England. Others consider Art and Crafts to be in opposition to Art Nouveau. Arts and Crafts indeed criticized Art Nouveau for its use of industrial materials such as iron. In Japan, it emerged in the 1920s as the Mingei movement. It stood for traditional craftsmanship, and often used medieval, romantic, or folk styles of decoration. It advocated economic and social reform and was anti-industrial in its orientation. It had a strong influence on the arts in Europe until it was displaced by Modernism in the 1930s, and its influence continued among craft makers, designers, and town planners long afterwards. The term was first used by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson at a meeting of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society in 1887, although the principles and style on which it was based had been developing in England for at least 20 years. It was inspired by the ideas of historian Thomas Carlyle, art critic John Ruskin, and designer William Morris. In Scotland, it is associated with key figures such as Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Viollet le Duc's books on nature and Gothique art also play an essential part in the esthetics of the Arts and Crafts movement.

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Article title : Arts and Crafts movement
"on nature and Gothique art also play an essential part in the esthetics of the Arts and Crafts movement. The Arts and Crafts movement emerged from the..."
Article title : French art
"French art consists of the visual and plastic arts (including French architecture, woodwork, textiles, and ceramics) originating from the geographical..."
Article title : International Art & Craft Fair
"the arts and crafts industry is huge. Hence from 2 to 9 November 1984 the government of Burkina organized a trade show for arts and crafts products named..."
Article title : Visual arts
"arts, crafts, or applied visual arts media. The distinction was emphasized by artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement, who valued vernacular art forms..."
Article title : Art Nouveau furniture
"and Crafts Movement, which in turn inspired The American Craftsman style, the American Arts and Crafts movement. One designer who introduced Art Nouveau..."
Article title : Museum of Arts and Crafts
"Museum of Arts and Crafts may refer to: Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, Kentucky, USA Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France Museum für Kunst..."
Article title : National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
"annex, the Kōgeikan Crafts Gallery, that collects and exhibits textiles, ceramics, lacquer, and other Japanese crafts, as well as crafts and designs from..."
Article title : Mary Farmer
"Exhibition". ArtFacts. Retrieved 14 February 2024. "Contemporary Craft". Brighton and Hove Museums. "Celebrating 50 Years of the Crafts Study Centre". Crafts Study..."
Article title : Art Nouveau
"Art Nouveau (/ˌɑːr(t) nuːˈvoʊ/ AR(T) noo-VOH; French: [aʁ nuvo] ; lit. 'New Art'), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of..."
Article title : Art pottery
"documentation des musées (in French) Hill, Rosemary, "Writing about the studio crafts", 190–198, in The Culture of Craft, Ed. Peter Dormer, 1997, Manchester..."

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