Margaret Macdonald and Summer
Margaret Macdonald Summer stained glass design 1894 Margaret Macdonald’s sketch for a potential stained glass window composition, is a perfect example of her individual approach to art and design. The piece was designed in 1894 and was called Summer . Although the window was never commissioned, and therefore never became a reality, it is an example of Macdonald’s early maturity as a uniquely individual artist and designer and shows quite clearly that she had a fully formed style long before she came under the umbrella of the ‘Mackintosh look’ of her husband to be, Charles Rennie Mackintosh
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Margaret Macdonald and Summer
WORLD MARCH FOR PEACE AND NONVIOLENCE Welcome, to the international site of the first ever World March that will travel the world asking for the end of wars, the dismantling of nuclear weapons and for an end to all forms of violence (physical, economic, racial, religious, cultural, sexual and psychological). krissi_yuki’s Bookmarks on Delicious Krissi Rungarunvasin (KrissiYuki) on Twitter Facebook | Krissi Rungarunvasin Freeter – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Freeter (フリーター, furītā?) (other spellings below) is a Japanese expression for people between the age of 15 and 34 who lack full time employment or are unemployed, excluding homemakers and students.
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Carin Wastberg The Sun Goes Down 1902 In the late nineteenth century, Carin Wastberg was a forceful proponent of her native Sweden taking its major art and craft themes and ideas from the British Arts & Crafts movement, rather than continue with the dependence that Sweden placed in the traditions of German art and craft work. Part of the shift away from Germany, was the re-awakening of a national interest in the historical traditions of Sweden, particularly within craft work
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Rococo Revival interior 1840s The Art Nouveau movement shared with the Rococo decorative style of the eighteenth century, a fascination for nature which was displayed within the two different eras, in a remarkably similar way. Both shared an interest in asymmetrical forms of stylised fauna, very often arranged in complicated ornamental work. However, Art Nouveau was a decorative style that gained influences from a number of different elements, the Rococo Revival being only one of them
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wikipedia wiki igor stravinsky igor stravinsky youtube igor stravinsky music firebird biography biografia who is Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian pianist,conductor, and composer, widely acknowledged as one of the most important and composers of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially cosmopolitan Russian who was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the century
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Eric Ravilious Barlaston pattern earthenware mug 1940 One of the last designs by Eric Ravilious that was put into production by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd, was also one of the last designs Ravilious produced in his all too short life and career. The Barlaston mug was designed by Ravilious in 1940 to commemorate the relocation of Wedgwood from their original Etruria site, where they had been since their foundation in 1769, to the new specially built Barlaston site. However, due to the Second World War, they were not to fully move until the 1950s
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Eric Ravilious & the Barlaston Mug of 1940
There was a definite shift within the British textile and wallpaper industry, at the end of the 1960s, from the forward facing Modernism, to the often nostalgic and backward facing Revivalist styles. However, revivalism does not necessarily denote the exact copying of previous style eras, but can often be more of a considered examination of period decoration, which is then manipulated or even mixed with more contemporary innovations, to produce a genuinely new style or at least a new twist on an old one. Clare Hartley Jones homage to Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is a case in point.
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Arthur and Lucia Mathews Oak drop front desk c1910-1915 Californian husband and wife team Arthur Frank and Lucia Kleinhans Mathews were involved in a wide variety of decorative interior arts. In their time they produced art and design work for fine art painting, graphics, illustration, painted furniture, stained glass, picture frames and a number of other interior based accessories
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Arthur and Lucia Mathews and the Furniture Shop of San Francisco
Althea McNish Tobago 1961 Althea McNish is a Trinidad & Tobago born British artist and designer. She came to Britain in 1951 where she trained in both architecture and graphics. By the time that she left the Royal College of Art in the late 1950s she was a textile designer, and became one of the generation of young British designers that were able to breath new life onto the Post War textile industry
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Edgar Brandt Bronze vase 1925 Art Deco decoration and ornamentation came in many different forms and sizes. Although a decorative era seen by many as being self consciously modern in both its outlook and decorative effect, it was in fact rich in references to previous eras. These two Brandt bronze vases for example, were produced in 1925 and show references to possible links and certainly influences, from a number of ancient cultures including Greek and Chinese metal work.
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Art Deco and Cultural Reference Points
These images give an insight into the future as seen from an American perspective of 1963. They were perhaps unrealistic futurescapes seen from today’s perspective, but many in 1963 thought that these views were not necessarily unattainable goals, and the advertising industry and the media in general were always keen to promote the future payoffs that could be obtained if a consumer led society was maintained, encouraged and allowed to reach its ultimate goal of a land of luxury, leisure and plenty for all
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The Future as Seen From 1963
Edward Burne Jones The Failure of Sir Gawaine; Sir Gawaine & Sir Uwaine at the Ruined Chapel This was a sequence of ten tapestries, six major panels and four linking pieces, designed by Edward Burne-Jones and produced by Morris & Co. Based on the King Arthur legend of the knightly quest for the Holy Grail, it was completed at the very end of the nineteenth century and can be seen as perhaps one of the last grand romantic gestures of that century. Burne-Jones, though the major contributor to the tapestries, was not the only designer.
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David Carradine , the son of actress and artist Sonia Sorel (née Henius) and actor John Carradine , paternal half-brothers are the late Keith Carradine and Bruce Carradine ,and the star of the 1970s TV series ” Kung Fu: The Legend Continues ” who also had a wide-ranging career in the movies,and returned to the top in recent years as the title character in Quentin Tarantino’s two-part saga ” Kill Bill .” has been found dead ( hanging ) in the Thai capital, Bangkok-thailand.
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John Clappison Indian Woman art ceramic 1966 Although based in East Yorkshire, Hornsea Pottery could never be accused of being provincial. John Clappison, the company’s main, and in some ways, only designer, was a regular visitor to ceramic companies throughout Europe, particularly Scandinavia, where he was keen to monitor new innovations and ideas that Scandinavian ceramic designers were pushing forward. There was a lot of experimentation at Hornsea, on the part of Clappison during the 1960s.
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John Clappison, Hornsea Pottery and the 1960s
Do you remember lucy gordon ??she is one of actress who played in spiderman 3 movie, according alot of sources informations, she dies-suicide in paris , at her flat. Police in the French capital said that her body was found hanging from the ceiling of her mansion block apartment near the River Seine, Paris. Lucy , a former beautiful CoverGirl model , had moved to the French capital to play iconic actress Jane Birkin in the film Serge Gainsburg, Vie Heroique , which is being promoted at the Cannes International Film Festival.
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“I PRODUCE CULTURE,” SAYS ALEXA LIXFELD.`CROSS-CULTURE`WOULD BE BETTER. WHETHER IT`S A PROJECT IN WHICH SHE TRIES TO USE CONCRETE AS AN ALTERNATIVE FOR CERAMICS IN HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS, A PERFUME, FOOD-DESIGN, AN EAT-ART PERFORMANCE IN WHICH THE PARTICIPANTS LADLE SOUP FROM A PLATE WITH A 1,4 METER DIAMETER, OR A SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION SHE SET UP IN SRI LANKA, TO HELP CHILDREN AND RUAL WOMEN – SHE OFTEN SEEMS TO GO FOR A CHALLENGE THAT OTHERS THINK IMPOSSIBLE. IN CREACETE™ SHE COMBINED HER PIONEERING EXPERIMENTS WITH CONCRETE IN THE FIELD OF TABLEWARE WITH THE ULTIMATE IN FINISHING, THE TRADITIONAL JAPANESE URUSHI LACQUERING TECHNIQUE FROM WAJIMA, WHILE LEAVING THE CONTRAST OPEN AND VISIBLE
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Alexa Lixfeld Designer