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What is the Arts and Craft Movement?
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A reaction to the mass production of goods because the quality and aesthetic value of a good decreased. Also, workers only contributed in the making of fragments of a good, not start to finish.
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Who is William Morris & what did he do?
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Started the Arts and Crafts Movement and designed The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Newly Augmented. His aesthetic was also based on a romanticized view of the Middle Ages.
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Who is Louis Comfort Tiffany? Famous for?
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Contributor to the Art Nouveau movement. Glass designer that inspired S. Bing. Created glass lights such as the water-lily table lamp.
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What is Art Deco?
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A movement paralleled toward the geometric as expressed in the architectural advent of the skyscraper. Also Avant-Gardes, De Stijl.... etc. (Red and Blue Chair).
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What is Constructivism?
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Russian movement toward unification of art and everyday life through mass-production and industry. Most important was their use of nonobjective formal elements in functional ways.
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What is De Stijl?
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"The Style" emerged in Holland. Based on the cubist work of Picasso and Barque and its emphasis on geometric shape. (Red and Blue Chair)
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What is streamlining?
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The first technology inspired aesthetic that captured American character. Speed. (Burlington Northern Co.)
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Who is Charles Frederick Worth? What did he do?
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The British designer _______considered to be
“Father of Haut Couture.”
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