Arts and Crafts movement

The Arts and Crafts movement was a reformist movement, at first inspired by the writings of John Ruskin, that was at its height between approximately 1880–1910. The movement influenced British decorative arts, architecture, cabinet making, crafts, and even the "cottage" garden designs of William Robinson or Gertrude Jekyll. Its best-known practitioners were William Morris, Charles Robert Ashbee, T. J. Cobden Sanderson, Walter Crane, Phoebe Anna Traquair, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Christopher Dresser, Edwin Lutyens and artists in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The Arts and Crafts movement was part of the major English aesthetic movement of the last years of the 19th century.

Influences on later art

Widely exhibited in Europe, the Arts and Crafts movement's qualities of simplicity and honest use of materials negating historicism inspired designers like Henry van de Velde and movements such as Art Nouveau, the Dutch De Stijl group, Viennese Secessionstil and eventually the Bauhaus. The movement can be assessed as a prelude to Modernism, where pure forms, stripped of historical associations, would be once again applied to industrial production.

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Europe - Henry van de Velde - Art Nouveau - De Stijl - Secessionstil - Bauhaus - Modernism

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In the United States, it spawned complementary and sympathetic movements such as the "mission oak" style furniture embraced by Gustav Stickley, the "Prairie School" of Frank Lloyd Wright, the Country Day School movement, and the bungalow style of houses popularised by Greene and Greene. Studio pottery (exemplified by Rookwood pottery, Bernard Leach in England, and Pewabic Pottery in Detroit), as well as the art tiles by Ernest A. Batchelder in Pasadena, California, and idiosyncratic furniture of Charles Rohlfs also demonstrate the clear influence of Arts and Crafts movement. Mission, Prairie and the California Craftsman styles of homebuilding remain tremendously popular in the United States today.

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United States - Gustav Stickley - Prairie School - Frank Lloyd Wright - Country Day School movement - Bungalow - Greene and Greene - Studio pottery - Rookwood pottery - Bernard Leach - Pewabic Pottery - Detroit - Tiles - Ernest A. Batchelder - Pasadena, California - Charles Rohlfs

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