Up for auction is this
genuine Aesthetic Movement or early Arts and Crafts painting. It
show somekind of sign, or advertising maybe even a family weapon
I do not know. It is handpainted on copper plate and measures 24
1/2 inch x 36 inch, could it have been a sign for a bar or pub
?. This paining or wall plaquette dates from around 1890.
The top is decorated with orange's and leaves,
than a kings crown a dark ages weapon and the crown
of thorns on a aureool background, below are two griffins.
The painting is in very good condition, there
are some spots of white paint on it, probebly caused by
repainting a ceiling whitout covering this painting.
More information about the arts and crafts
movement is below.
The Arts and Crafts movement was
a British and American aesthetic movement occurring
in the last years of the 19th century and the early
years of the 20th century. Inspired by the writings
of John Ruskin and a romantic idealisation of the
craftsman taking pride in his personal handiwork, it
was at its height between approximately 1880 and
1910.
| In general, the
development of the Arts and Crafts
movement was led as much by political
ideals and the desire to create a new
order as it was by the nostalgia for
earlier styles of architecture and craft.
The term Arts and Crafts does not define
an artistic style such as Art Nouveau or
Art Deco, the term refers more to a set
of principles and attitudes in the mind
of the artist or craftsman which involve
not only art but also society and the
interaction between the two. In the
words of Michael Haslam:
The ideas behind the Arts and Crafts
movement had more to do with the
creation of the Art Object than with the
Art object itself. Several Arts and
Crafts objects even bear evidence of
this concern with the processes of
manufacture : for instance the hammer
marks on beaten copper or silver were
often left clearly visible, and mortise
and tennon joints or dovetailing were
exposed and made into prominent features
of some furniture. As well as producing
decorative effects, such details were
intended to proclaim loudly that the
object had been made by a craftsman
using nothing but his hands and the
simplest of tools. |
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