Applied arts

The Arts and Crafts - also called Applied Arts - includes the craft, machinery or industrial production of commodities with high artistic standards. In contrast to the closely related crafts it represents the objects forth in larger series and to the designs are often performed by other workshops or external artists.

The two divisions cover all areas of creative arts and crafts such as equipment, jewelery and components of interior design; The latter are also referred to as a decorative art. Another term for the production of non-original works of art is commercial art.

History

In the 19th century, commercial museums, art museums and art schools were founded to collect Illustrative examples of artistically designed everyday objects and present for the first time. Here especially the technical training and training should be promoted.

Among the best known schools of applied art among the Bauhaus. It existed from 1919-1933 and is known worldwide as the home of the avant-garde of classical modernism in all areas of fine and applied art.

Arts and crafts can be seen as precursors of product design, were established for the special even in the 20th century design museums. It has also contributed much to the advancement of the art techniques.

Problematization

In contrast to the Craft, which manufactures unique pieces or art in small series, everyday items are in arts and crafts in larger series, reproduced by machine and by foreign designs. This according to Walter Benjamin's writing has Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction individual products no aura, hence the artistic character of this type of production is questioned.

There are also producers of " artistic merit " (see the definition above ) who produce works that are perceived by many as cheesy. Also, those works would thus be the area assigned to " Arts and Crafts ", but not unquestionably art.

Consequently, the term arts and crafts is often used in a pejorative sense. That is a typical rating: " Masterfully executed, yet only arts and crafts ". The product was indeed elaborated technically solid, but not original. Similarly, it is argued, if art is allegedly used in the wrong context.

For example, in the visual arts is in all his radical transgressions clear: It is not something we put the somewhere, hinreibt or inside out. Not because it is then wore down too quickly. For long there is art that needs to be gradually decomposed itself or replaced regularly. However, while visual art adorns the homes, is Body Decorations, at least when it is supported, only Arts and Crafts.

Because of the negative connotations of the term arts and crafts, many prefer to use the synonyms applied arts or crafts.

Directions

• Art deco
• Arts and Crafts Movement
• Art Nouveau