Owen Jones and Ornament of the Middle Ages
Illustration: Owen Jones Middle Ages Ornament from his The Grammar of Ornament 1856 Interestingly Owen Jones called the colour plates dedicated to the chapter dealing with medieval ornament in his 1856 book The Grammar of Ornament , as Middle Ages , while he entitled the chapter itself as Medieval Ornament . Some see both titles as meaning the same era while others are more particular.
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Owen Jones and Ornament of the Middle Ages
In 1971, Guggenheim curator Edward Fry planned a Hans Haacke exhibition. Just before the show was set to open, the Guggenheim canceled it. Why?
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Critiquing the void — and the rest of the Guggenheim
Illustration: Walter Crane Alcestic Frieze 1876 Walter Crane was a prodigious and prestigious artist, designer and illustrator. He produced design work for textiles, carpet, ceramics, stained glass and wallpaper.
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Four Decades of Wallpaper Design by Walter Crane
Illustration: Various forms of Philippine basketry 1913 The Philippines is a diverse and varied archipelago made up of hundreds of islands with dozens of mutually exclusive and overlapping cultural heritages. It is no surprise then that basketry within the islands is a craft skill that is both as varied and individual as the islands and the cultures that inhabit them.
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Basketry of the Philippines
Illustration: Traditional Cretan embroidery The embroidery work produced on the island of Crete has many influences as designated by its strategic trading and cultural position in the eastern Mediterranean, situated as it is between the Asian, African and European mainlands.
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The Embroidery of Crete
Whenever you have an exhibit opening or similar event, you can’t expect to send one thing in the mail and have an impact. People typically have to see the same information multiple times—in multiple ways—before they will act on it. Here are 7 steps you can take to get the word out early and often.
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Art Marketing Action + Podcast: Get the Word Out Early and Often
The illustrations shown in this article are from the 37 steps exhibition, which is on at The Changing Room in Stirling, Scotland until March 28 2010.
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Gillian Cooper and the 37 Steps Exhibition
Illustration: Hannah Ryggen Ja vi elsker tapestry This tapestry produced by Hannah Ryggen is very particular to both a time period and that of geographical context. It portrays a celebration of the 900th anniversary of the founding of Oslo in 1950. Indirectly, the Norwegian capital was also celebrating forty-five years of independence from centuries of domination by its neighbours Denmark and Sweden, but also five years from the forced occupation during the Second World War by Germany
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Hannah Ryggen and the Ja Vi Elsker Tapestry
Illustration: Ann Macbeth rug design 1905 Ann Macbeth is well known as an embroidery designer, teacher and author. She succeeded Jessie Newbery as head of the embroidery department at Glasgow School of art and was a pivotal member of the later Glasgow movement headed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald. She was also the author of a number of popular and influential books mostly concerned with the practical aspects of embroidery, needlework and dressmaking
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Ann Macbeth and Rug Design
Illustration: Terry Jarrard-Dimond Crush The work of textile artist Terry Jarrard-Dimond is one of precision both in colour and in line. It is not surprising to learn that the artist worked 3-dimensionally as a sculptor for many years before coming to textiles, as these five pieces by the artist shows.
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Terry Jarrard-Dimond and the Art of Spatial Awareness
Illustration: Charles Rennie Mackintosh Wave Pattern Charles Rennie Mackintosh produced a number of differing textile design pieces with the title of wave . A number of them were produced during the early years of the First World War and reflect the growing changes that had started to appear within the British decorative arts in the few years before the war, particularly with new concepts and ideas being put forward by such people as Roger Fry and his Omega Workshops
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Wave Pattern
Illustration: Mexican Ornament from Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament 1856 Perhaps one of the seemingly oddest incorporations in Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament published in 1856 was that of Mexican ornament. Interestingly, but perhaps puzzlingly, Jones placed his illustrations towards what he called Mexican ornament within the chapter dealing with Greek ornament.
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Owen Jones and Mexican Ornament
Illustration: Sandra Woock Backspin The textile artwork produced by Sandra Woock is very much open-ended as far as experience and interpretation are concerned. The artist seems intent on both personal observation and understanding originating within the individual, rather than that of the artist. Although much of the creative interpretation and analysis of artwork is subjective, many artists do try to limit, or at least set some forms of parameter around the interpretation and explanation of their work
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Sandra Woock and the Function of Movement
Illustration: Russian lace makers 1911 Little was known in the rest of Europe and the world at large, about Russian lace making until the publication in 1870 of a book dealing with lace, but more specifically that of Russian lace makers. The book was written by Sophie Davydorf and was a rich and detailed history dealing with many different forms of lace making across the Russian Empire. However, probably the most important benefit of Davydorf’s book was her highlighting of the plight of thousands of peasant women who were working slave hours and wages in the production of fine lace for wealthy Russians
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The Plight of Russian Lace Makers
Illustration: Russian cross stitch design Most human cultures across the planet, including that of the Slavic, tend to use red for the same basic and original intention. Red is the same colour of blood and therefore since the beginning of human culture it has come to be associated literally with the lifeblood and through association, with that of the lifeforce. In the broad geographical and cultural area that made up the homeland of the Slavs, red was very much used in the tradition of protection, particularly against various human diseases and ailments.
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The Slavic use of Red Thread in Embroidery
Illustration: Albert Herter The Ship 1913 Albert Herter was an American artist, best known for his fine art paintings, but closely followed by a range of large scale murals that he produced from about 1913 onwards through to the end of the 1920s. Herter also produced a number of tapestries and The Ship is one of the better known and dates from 1913. The tapestry itself is interesting in its style and composition as, although seemingly conventional and representational in both composition and style, it does seem to echo certain elements of the abstract pattern work, particularly within the top third of the tapestry, that was to be so prevalent within the decorative arts, and that of textile design specifically, during the following 1920s and 1930s.
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Albert Herter and the Tapestry Ship
Illustration: Wen Redmond Trees Seen, Forest Remembered 2008 Of all the images and work produced by textile artist Wen Redmond, I have chosen a sequence of work produced by her over a couple of years.
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Wen Redmond and the Complex Nature of Observation
Illustration: William Morris Peacock and Dragon 1878 The Peacock and Dragon is one of William Morris’s woven, rather than printed textile designs.
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William Morris and the Peacock and Dragon
Online Education: With the national unemployment rate still hovering in double digits, many laid off workers are turning to online education as a tool to acquire new skills and become more appealing to prospective employers. At online universities across the nation, enrollment figures are increasing drastically in the New Year. As …
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Online education offers new skills, careers
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