Journal 3: Decoratiove Art

“The Significance of Applied Art”-Hermann Muthesius

 Modern applied art are artistic, cultural, and economic. Now applied art despises all simulations and substitutes. It tries to be applying the principles of truthfulness and sound workmanship. No these day it hard to do. We are in a time that it a fast change style and appeal to the customer than the producer.

less than three is a commen text that our genertion is used to

“Manifesto of the Staatliche Bauhaus in Weimar” -Walter Gropius

     I think Walter saying that it not the importance of finishing, it the time and effort put it to it. Also he says not to separate artist and craftsman. Art is not a “profession”.

School in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts

 “Type-Needs: Type-Furniture” -Le Corbusier

  "To search for the human scale, for human function, is to define human needs." (pg. 84)

     I think Corbusies saying that we as people make thing base on human needs and make it appealing to us “decorative art.”

Does it need to be this nice

Frank, Isabelle (editor) (2000). The theory of decorative art: An anthology of European and American writings 1750 – 1940. New York: Yale University Press.