Research Of The Design Thought Of The British Arts And Crafts Movement

This article is to have a talk about the design thought of the British Arts and Crafts Movement, through its production, the development and the influence, makes one have more defined and a profound explanation about the British Arts and Crafts Movement's complete picture, further strengthens the people have a perceptual and rational understanding about the British Arts and Crafts Movement, thus rightly appreciate it.The British Arts and Crafts Movement is produces under Industrial Revolution this specific background. As the Industrial Revolution forerunner, British, first in the field as the workshop of the world, and also demonstrates its achievement of Industrial Revolution most early. But meant richly, presented a revival handicraft movement-The British Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain, that is linked together Britain nationalism, the liberalism, the doctrine of back to the ancients and romanticism starting. Because of so, its philosophical basis is originating from this kind of positionthat the Industrial Revolution has destroyed the entire society's emotion, the morals and the life. Some ideal intellectual discovered that the technology the progress does not necessarily coincide with the improvement of society, morality and esthetics,instead of had the certain extent dropping variance: Slum packed like sardines, bad factory environment , spiritless village, in addition everywhere fills Victoria who feigns the wind, that causes people's living standard, the moral standard and the esthetic interest big drop. Obviously, its motivations were social and moral,and its aesthetic value derived from the conviction that society produces the art and architecture it deserves. Therefore, the thought of the British Arts and Crafts Movement is connected closely to the Britain society's condition of economy and civilization, and the esthetic thinking mode.The design thought of the British Arts and Crafts Movement has experienced one long and the complex process that include the formation, the development and reforming. In the stage of formation , Pugin, Ruskin and Morris has the inalienable inheritance relations,.In 1864 Morris initiated the British Arts and Crafts Movement that symbolizes its design thought was clear about the formation. In order to promote the handicraft development, it has established five associations successively from 1882 to 1888: Century Guild, Home Arts and industries Guild,Art Workers Guild, Handicraft Guild, Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. They have pushed the British Arts and Crafts Movement to the a high tide, promoted the design thought further development together. Along with the design thought of the British Arts and Crafts Movement has widespread day by day , Charles Robert Ashbee,Charles Annesley Voysey and William Richard Lethaby who have a question about the design thought of the British Arts and Crafts Movement through their work and the theory: We are in "the modern age", we should not reject the machine. Because of these thorough thought, the design thought of the British Arts and Crafts Movement has a successful reforming: Goes out "the middle ages", enters "the modern age". In this sense ,we said that the British Arts and Crafts Movement had Stepped out the first step of the modern design.Therefore, we appraise the design thought of the British Arts and Crafts Movement not only should focus on the relations with the modern design history, but should also pondered from the design esthetics and the design philosophy. Only then like this, we can have a more comprehensive assurance to the design thought of the British Arts and Crafts Movement.