Victorian era is characterized by aesthetic confusion.
chroma-lithography = color lithography
*color blending
*cheap color art in homes
Ephemera-products used more as function, movie tickets, posters, magazines, travelling amusements...
Prang
very busy posters and such
trompe-l'oeil - a style of painting in which objects are depicted with photographically realistic detail; also : the use of similar technique in interior decorating.
Persona on products.
Manipulative advertising
The juxtaposition of let's say a quaker oats ad next to an article on practical housekeeping is valuable real estate.
It was about the sale and not the art in graphic design for advertising.
Shift in children's literature. Books created for children's entertainment. Sprouted imagination and how people think.
Greenway-first prominent female in children's illustration.
Walter Crane's Absurd ABC
Periodicals, political cartoons (Thomas Nast)
Wlliam Tweed was the star of Nast's political cartoons.
Heinz figured out corporate image
John Ruskin-spiritual head of Arts and Crafts
*social reform
*rejected mercantile economy
***William Morris***aka Topsy
overachiever, pattern design, poetry, etc.
wanted to go back to making things by hand-however hand making takes more time and money
Thoughts
I agree that it sucked to live back in the "good ole days". It sounds like there were no "good ole days." I would like to go back in time for just a small amount of time and visit Thomas Nast just because of his fathering the political cartoon.
Questions
No questions at this time.
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