Harry Napper, Liberty and English Art Nouveau
Illustration: Pan Pipes textile design by Harry Napper 1890s Harry Napper was probably one of the most influential designers connected with the prodigious and to some extent prestigious output of the London retail outlet Liberty. Although Napper supplied a number of textile designs, he was also involved in the design of carpets and rugs, furniture and metalwork, much of it for Liberty.
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Harry Napper, Liberty and English Art Nouveau
In a Friday post about Byron Kim’s Synecdoche (1991-present), I noted the work’s intellectual roots in America’s 1980s and 1990s debates about multiculturalism. The United States wasn’t the only country to have a national conversation about multiculturalism in those years and it wasn’t just Kim who used tried-and-true art strategies to engage with that discourse: Great Britain had its own debate about multiculturalism and what it meant for the British
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Art and the multi-cultural 1990s: From Kim to Shonibare
Illustration: Hindoo Ornament from Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament 1856 Owen Jones started his chapter on Hindoo Ornament in his groundbreaking The Grammar of Ornament first published in 1856, with an apology for the poor record that Britain had of early Indian architectural and ornamental decoration. He surmised rightly, that at some point in the future the British would have as large a collection and more importantly, the same level of understanding of Indian art and design, as they were beginning to achieve with that of Ancient Egypt for example
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Owen Jones and Hindoo Ornament
Synecdoche , the Byron Kim installation acquired by the National Gallery of Art late last year, is not a great work of art. It is closer to the end of every art historical precedent it engages than it is to the beginning: abstract painting, the use of the grid, monochrome painting, abstraction-as-portraiture, minimalism, even its use of art world insiders as models to help the work ‘get over,’ WWE-style
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Synecdoche and the National Gallery of Art
You have probably been advised to make your own best man speech and not to rely on generic speeches which you can download online or speechwriters who can make the task simpler, but not necessarily easier for you. Given the popularity of sample best man speeches online, many of them are free to downdload, it’ll be tempting not to grab the opportunity. Not everyone approves the idea though.
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How Sample Best Man Speeches Can Help You Out
Illustration: Selection of Chemehuevi basketry and pottery The Chemehuevi, like so many indigenous cultures across the South West of the US, were and still are expert basketry makers. The Chemehuevi have a long tradition of basketry that extends across countless generations. The basketry craft itself was the traditional domain of women as it was across much of North America.
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Chemehuevi Basketry
Illustration: Honiton lace design 1910 The town of Honiton in Devon produced some of the most sought after lace in England. It was said that the town had been producing lace since the Elizabethan era, though it is now thought that serious production of lace did not begin for another century after that.
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The Revival of Honiton Lace
Illustration: Harriet Powers Bible quilt 1886 The quilting work of Harriet Powers is a symbolists dream. The two quilts shown here, detail some of the important stories and legends of the Bible set within a panelled quilt. However, these are by no means pieces that can be tagged as ‘naive’ or even ‘folk’ art; they were produced by a woman with an instinctive understanding of some of the complex messages underlying the stories
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Harriet Powers Bible Quilt
Illustration: Ernest Percyval Tudor-Hart First Sin tapestry 1961 Ernest Percyval Tudor-Hart was a Canadian fine artist who spent a large section of his career in Paris and London where he opened and taught in his own schools, within the first two decades of the twentieth century. Tudor-Hart moved in some of the best artistic circles in Europe and knew a number of artists including the Hungarians Alador Korosfoi-Kriesch and Sondor Nagy, and so therefore also knew the Godollo Arts & Crafts colony in Hungary.
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Percyval Tudor-Hart and the First Sin
The Aran Islands are a group of small windswept islands situated off the west coast of Ireland which has given us a unique and often copied knit genre. It is important not to confuse Aran with the Scottish island of Arran which has nothing to do with Aran knit and is in no way related or linked in anyway with the Irish Aran
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Irish Aran Knit
Chris Ofili Foreword by Peter Doig, conversation with Thelma Golden, contributions by David Adjaye, Carol Becker, Okwui Enwezor, Cameron Shaw and Kara Walker hardcover, 272 pages, 200 color images and b&w drawings, 2009 $85 Rizzoli New York This gorgeous coffee table book about the works of Afro-British artist Chris Ofili is a love affair from start to finish. Great photos of the works — in situ in gallery spaces and in amazing closeups of the rambunctious details — make for hours of satisfactory page-turning
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Book-stravaganza 2 – Monographs and show catalogs
When talking about Tule River basketry we should of course be really talking about Yokut basketry. The Yokut nation originally consisted of over sixty diverse and distinct communities, all speaking a common language and sharing the larger Yokut culture, all living within central inland California. Basketry, as with most Native American cultures, was an important element in the daily domestic life of people, and was often so intertwined with the day to day running of life that the maintenance of a fully functioning professional basketry craft base could often be a factor in the success or failure of a community.
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Tule River Basketry
Illustration: M Hrdlicka lace design 1904 A number of traditional mediums saw a re-emergence of their creative side during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. This creative period was in close proximity to the two style eras that followed each other and in many cases overlapped, namely the Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau movements.
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Art Nouveau Lace Patterns
Illustration: Mariska Undi Hunting for the Wonderdeer Mariska Undi is perhaps better known as a Hungarian artist and one of the key members of the Godollo Arts & Crafts community. However, she was also a campaigner and champion of the applied arts medium and was personally involved in a number of projects that had textiles at their heart. Throughout her career she had a particular and constant interest in the folk art traditions of her native Hungary.
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The Textile Work of Mariska Undi
Located on the outskirts of the city of Algiers, Le Jardin d’Essai dates back to 1832 when the then ruling French government took the initiative to establish a botanical garden for the preservation and propagation of all the country’s indigenous plants, for both their aesthetic and their economic value. This soon expanded to include a wide variety of foreign plants that proved suitable to the climatic conditions of Algeria.
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Lovely Le Jardin d’Essai
Way back in 1950 Richard Taylor wrote an article advising would-be cartoonists to show a little respect for the profession: “The woods are full of pseudo-cartoonists,” wrote Taylor, “grinding out things that are not much better than the average high-school student’s masterpieces, doomed forever to a sub-world of third-rate pictorial humor, and without the ghost of a hope of ever climbing higher.” All this week on my blog I’ve been showcasing the work of some of the masters of mid-20th century cartoon art. Hank Ketcham , John Huehnergarth , Russell Patterson , Roy Doty and Richard Taylor himself
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Cartooning Is Easy! …not.
It was almost exactly eight years ago that I decided to move back to Canada as I had just accepted the position as the Director of the Canadian Craft & Design Museum in Vancouver. The museum was hidden in a courtyard at the corner of Georgia and Hornby across the street from the Vancouver Art Gallery . I was aware of some of the problems the institution had experienced over the years, and was not unaware that there were probably deeper issues than they were willing to divulge, as they were unable to cover the costs for me to fly to Vancouver for my interview
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What is it about Craft? The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery Faces an Uncertain Future
I have been wondering lately “Where has the last month and a half gone?” I had what I thought was a very attainable and manageable goal of writing two to three blog posts a week. Seemed manageable enough, but ….. So, this posting is actually my attempt to not only get back on track, but also to acknowledge that I am just not getting out to see as much art as I would like to
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James Fowler’s Skin @ MADE and PieceWORK @ the Gladstone Hotel
On the borders of the Sahara Desert is a picturesque oasis that breaks the endless horizon of sand with its beautiful buildings and massive date palm plantations. It is estimated that the city of Biskra is home to approximately a hundred and fifty thousand date palm trees that are very important to the economy of city. With a population of over two hundred thousand, Biskra is the capital city of the Biskra Province and is a fascinating destination in Algeria for visitors to explore.
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Travel to Biskra
My name is Danny Ferrone . I am from Chicago Illinois and I am the founder of the Fight Forever Foundation – a foundation that is Fighting to Cure Cystic Fibrosis , a deadly lung disease that affects 100,000 people worldwide. I would like to take the time to express my deep gratitude to the directors, teachers and faculty at Scuola Leonardo Da Vinci in Milan . I came to Italy with the absolute necessity to learn Italian to be able to communicate the important messages of my foundation and to be able to communicate and collaborate with organizations here in Italy who share in our mission of finding a cure for Cystic Fibrosis.
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Thanks to the directors, teachers and faculty at Scuola Leonardo Da Vinci in Milan