Design during The Industrial Revolution

During The Industrial Revolution design was affected a great deal. When steam engine was used as a power source for many machines that manufactured many products, which also would differ from one another.

These machines could produce anything with any design, and not just one but many.

Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky was influential Russian painter and art theorist. He spent most of his life moving countries. He took a deep interest in art when he moved to Tartu. He interpreted his painting in ceramics, such pieces where made for mass production, which underlined the availability of art that communism would bring to the society.

Vladimir Tatlin

Vladimir Tatlin was a Russian painter and architect. He was one of the two most important figures in the Russian avant-garde art movement of the 1920s, and he later became an important artist in the Constructivist movement. He is most famous for his attempts to create the giant tower, The Monument to the Third International.

Bolshevik Revolution's impact on design

With the beginning of the Bolshevik Revolution designers and artists of Russia were aimed at satisfying the needs of nation and contribution towards new ideas, like communism. It protested against art for its own sake but encouraged art for sake of the social and political purpose.

Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne was an important post-impressionism painter. His works were laid as a bridge between 19th century art and new radically different art of the 20th century. Matisse and Picasso have remarked him as the father of Cubism. His works contain  repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his subjects.

Mary Cassatt

Mary Cassatt was an American painter, when she lived in France she picked up post-impressionism.
She often painted private and social lives of women with emphasis between mother and children. She was one of the tree greatest woman painters during post impressionism.

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh is a post impressionist, his works are famous for having bold color, rough beauty and emotional beauty. Most of his works are inspired by Japanese prints that he liked very much. He thought of his works as the Western(European) Japanese art.
Through his numerous works one can see the change made when he had moved to the south of France. His painting became lighter and more alive, but yet it consisted of the vivid brushstrokes and bold colors and the excessive amounts of paint on canvas.

Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism is development of French art since Manet. Its is the extended version of Impressionism but at the same time rejecting its limitations; it still uses vivid colours, thick application of paint, distinctive brush strokes, and real-life subject matter, but they were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary colour.

Fauvism

Fauvism is a loose group of artists that were led by Henry Matisse and Andre Derain. 

It was recognised by short dynamic brushstrokes, pure bright and unrealistic colors, flatness and dynamism in paining's nature.

Fauvism means "wild beasts", the same name that was given to Matisse and Derain when describing their painting techniques.

Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape painter.
Most of his paintings included figures standing before night skies, morning mists, Gothic ruins or barren trees.
Friedrich's works often contain symbolic, anti-classical meaning that seeks to convey a subjective and emotional response towards the world of nature. His work had its down fall in the 1920s and got back up during 1930s-40s when Nazism begun to form, during those times his work was used a patriotic/nationalistic aspect, it is not until 1970s that his work was recognised as romanticism.