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Applied art refers to artistic design applied to functional everyday objects. It aims to make objects both aesthetically pleasing and useful. Major categories of applied art include architecture, industrial design, fashion design, graphic design, and decorative arts. Architecture was one of the earliest and most important applied arts, seen in structures from ancient pyramids to modern skyscrapers. In the 19th century, industrialization and commercial growth increased demand for aesthetic product and service design, leading to fields like industrial and graphic design. Applied arts also include decorative elements in pottery, furniture, stained glass, tapestries, and more.

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Applied art refers to artistic design applied to functional everyday objects. It aims to make objects both aesthetically pleasing and useful. Major categories of applied art include architecture, industrial design, fashion design, graphic design, and decorative arts. Architecture was one of the earliest and most important applied arts, seen in structures from ancient pyramids to modern skyscrapers. In the 19th century, industrialization and commercial growth increased demand for aesthetic product and service design, leading to fields like industrial and graphic design. Applied arts also include decorative elements in pottery, furniture, stained glass, tapestries, and more.

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Applied Art

 Refers to the application (and resulting product) of artistic design to utilitarian objects
in everyday use.
 works of applied art are usually functional objects which have been "prettified" or
creatively designed with both aesthetics and function in mind
 Applied art embraces a huge range of products and items, from a teapot or chair, to
the walls and roof of a railway station or concert hall, a fountain pen or computer
mouse.

Applied Art Includes


 Works of applied art comprise two different types:
o standard machine-made products which have had a particular design applied
to them, to make them more attractive and easy-to-use
o individual, aesthetically pleasing but mostly functional, craft products made by
artisans or skilled workers
 Artistic disciplines that are classified as applied arts, include
o industrial design
o fashion design
o interior design
o graphic art and design (including computer graphics)
o Decorative art (eg. furniture, carpets, tapestry, embroidery, batik, jewellery,
precious metalwork, pottery, goldsmithing, basketry, mosaic art, and
glassware).
o Illuminated manuscripts and later book illustration
o Architecture too is best viewed as an applied art.

History of Applied Art


Architecture
 The first applied art to be practised in a major way was architecture
o Egyptian Pyramids
o Ziggurats of Sumer
o Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
o Greek temples
o Roman viaducts and bridges
 architects combine aesthetics with mathematics to design a functional but pleasing
structure
 The demands of the modern world have included housing and commercial projects,
notably high-rise buildings and skyscrapers. Ex.: Skyscraper Architecture (1850-present).

 During this evolution, architectural styles have been influenced by numerous schools
and movements, including:
o Romanesque (c.775-1050),
o Gothic (c.1150-1280),
o International Gothic (c.1300-1500),
o Renaissance (c.1400-1530),
o Mannerism (c.1530-1600),
o Baroque (c.1600-1700),
o Rococo (c.1700-50),
o Neoclassicism (c.1750-1815),
o Greek and Gothic Revival (c.1800-1900),
o Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Romanesque Revival (1849-1880),
o the Second Empire style (1850-80),
o Chicago School of architecture (1880-1910),
o Art Nouveau(c.1895-1915),
o Early Modernism (1900-25),
o Continental Avant-Garde (1900-25),
o Bauhaus Design School (1919-33),
o Art Deco (1925-40)
o Totalitarian Architecture (Germany, USSR, 1928-1940),
o the utopian urban building designs of Le Corbusier (1887-1965),
o Second Chicago School (1940-70),
o International Style of modernism (1945-1970),
o High Tech Corporate Design (1945-2000),
o Deconstructivism (1980-2000), and
o Blobitecture (1990-2000).

Commercial Design

Aside from architecture, applied art received its biggest boost from the growth in
commerce during the 19th century, following the Industrial Revolution. Suddenly,
competitive manufacturers and service providers needed to ensure that their products and
services "looked good" as well as functioned properly. This demand for
improved aesthetics led to the establishment of numerous design schools and courses, from
which a new generation of industrial designers emerged. Later, as the range of products
multiplied, and new printing techniques appeared, they were joined by fashion designers,
graphic designers and most recently computer graphics designers.

Decorative Arts
 In addition to architecture and design, applied art also includes decorative arts.
 Early examples include:
 Chinese pottery (from 18,000 BCE), Jomon style Japanese pottery (from 14,500 BCE), as well
as jade carving (from 4900 BCE), lacquerware (from 4500 BCE) and Chinese porcelain (c.100 BCE
onwards). Enamelwork is exemplified by Celtic Metalwork art such as the silver "Gundestrup
Cauldron" (c.100 BCE), the bronze "Petrie Crown" (100 BCE - 200 CE), and the gold "Broighter
Collar/Torc" (1st century BCE), as well as later religious metalwork like the Ardagh Chalice (8th/9th
century CE), and the Derrynaflan Chalice. Tapestry (see for instance the Bayeux Tapestry) and
stained glass were first developed during the Romanesque and Gothic period, while interior design,
fine-furniture, textiles, glassware and other objets d'art reached new heights during the Rococo
period (18th century) at the French court at the Palace of Versailles.

 During the last decade of the 19th century the decorative strain of applied art was re-invigorated
by William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement, the Celtic Art Revival Movement, the Belgian
artists group known as Les Vingt, the international Art Nouveau Style (c.1895-1915),
exquisite Fabergé Easter Eggs(c.1885-1917), the Bauhaus Design School in Germany (1919-33)
and Art Deco (c.1925-40). One of the main applications for decorative design work was theatrical
sets and costumes, such as those designed by Leon Bakst (1866-1924) and Alexander
Benois (1870-1960) for the Ballets Russes. Another application was poster art, which became high
fashion during La Belle Epoquein France. Top poster designers included the lithographer Jules
Cheret (1836-1932), the Post-Impressionist Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), and the Czech Alfonse
Mucha (1860-1939). Other figures in the history of poster art, include Aubrey Beardsley (1872-98),
the "Beggarstaff Brothers", Theophile Steinlen (1859-1923), Eugene Grasset (1845-1917), Albert
Guillaume (1873-1942), Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940), the Italian
functionalist Leonetto Cappiello (1875-1942), Ludwig Hohlwein, Lucian Bernhard, Herbert Matter,
Fernand Leger, Amedee Ozenfant, the French-Ukrainian Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, William
Bradley and Edward Penfield.

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