Arts and crafts movement

Artist: William Morris
Title: "Tulip and Willow"
Date: 1873
Function: Print Design
Picture Location: http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/graphic_designers/william_morris/william_morris.html

The detail and contrast of the colours immediately brought my attention to this piece. The style of this design is obviously quite floral and shows a lot of detail. I really like how this piece is shown as unfinished, which draws your attention from the colour to the lines, it makes me feel like getting a pencil and finishing it off for him. William Morris is clearly an established illustrator and the quality of the image is definitely very high. you can see this by looking at the smooth flowing pencil lines and the beautiful water colours used.

Artist: William Morris

Date: 1891

Function: book

Picture Location: http://katsclass.com/10817/topic01.htm

This particular design by william morris is one of the leading book designs of his time because of the use of the popular floral design and medieval typography. The border is very elegant and is quite like the Victorian style. This piece attracted me because of the detailed print of the horseman and the floral boarder.

1880's Art Noveau movement

Artist: Gian Amelio Malerba
Title: Mele
Date: 1906
Function: Poster
Picture location: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/date/2010/03

This is a typical Art Noveau piece, the ladies in the picture are wearing pastel colored, loose fitting dresses and large hats. It seems as though the dog in the poster is a pet because of the red collar, in those days a pet would of been an accessory rather than a friend. The open neck of the the ladys dresses are quite rebellious which is typical of art noveau. I was attracted to this piece by the colour scheme, the light pastel colours work really well against the greens and browns.



 
Artist: Vincent Van Gogh
Title: Starry Night
Date: June 1889
Function: Painting
Picture Location: http://johnbriner.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/starry-night-by-vincent-van-gogh/

This painting was one of the most influential creations that inspired the Art Noveau Movement. The swirling forms display freedom and individualism, thinking outside the box and being different is art in itself. This Painting shows this. The thing that is most stunning is that this painting was created from a memory and not from viewing a landscape and painting from the surroundings. The flowing forms attracted me to this piece becuse it is a different way of creating clouds and other free flowing forms.