Assignment 4: Artists & Designers Research
Margaret McDonald MacIntosh
Born: 5 November 1865
Died: 10 January 1933
Nationality: English
Studies: Glasgow School of Art working in a variety of media including textiles, metalwork and embroidery.
Married: Charles Rennie MacIntosh, Scottish architect and designer.
"La Mort Parfumee" 1921
© The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of
Glasgow 2012
"The
White Rose and the Red Rose" 1902
© The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of
Glasgow 2012
Invitation
card for a Glasgow School of Art Club "At Home",
25 November 1893 (line block)
25 November 1893 (line block)
© The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of
Glasgow 2012
Textile
design: wave pattern: voile (textile design)
© The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of
Glasgow 2012
Leon Baskt
Born: 1866
Died: 1924
Nationality: Russian
Studies: St Petersburg Academy of Arts and worked part-time as a book illustrator.
He studied painting prior to moving in to theatre. Forged and creative and productive alliance with Sergie Diaghilev and the Ballet Russe. Designed sets and costumes for many of the group's famous ballets.
Ethel Mariet
Born: 1872
Died: 1952
Nationality: British
Studies: Trained as a Piano teacher. Travelled to Ceylon with her then husband studying photography and hand weaving. Later once returned to England she set up study workshops at her studios in Ditchling, East Sussex
1939 was created first female Royal Designer for Industry (RDI).
(© University of Brighton Faculty of Arts)
An example of spaced weaving (right), the techinque creates a delicate wrap which lets the light through. Created in the 1940s using cotton warp and silk.
Image copyright © Crafts Study Centre, and courtesy of VADS.
Anni Albers
Studies: Bauhaus, Weimar Germany. Due to limited disciplines being available to women at the Bauhaus, Albers studied weaving.
1925: Married Josef Albers (a student and then master at the Bauhaus). With the Bauhaus coming under pressure from the Nazi party the couple moved to US. In 1971 they founded their institute The Albers Foundation (http://www.albersfoundation.org)
Anni Albers, Wall Hanging,
1925
Silk, cotten, and acetate.
145 x 92 cm (57.125 x 36.187 inches)
Die Neue Sammlung Staatliches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Munich
©2008 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Anni Albers, Black-White-Red,
1964
Reproduction of a 1927 original. Cotton and silk.
175 x 118 cm (68.875 x 46.437 inches)
Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin
©2008 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Anni Albers, Development in Rose I, 1952
Cotton and hemp complex leno weave. JAAF: 1996.12.2
55.9 x 43.2 cm (22 x 17 inches)
©2007 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Born: 1866
Died: 1924
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| Costume of Cléopatra for Ida Rubinstein, 1909 |
Studies: St Petersburg Academy of Arts and worked part-time as a book illustrator.
He studied painting prior to moving in to theatre. Forged and creative and productive alliance with Sergie Diaghilev and the Ballet Russe. Designed sets and costumes for many of the group's famous ballets.
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| The Firebird, Ballet costume 1910 |
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| Nijinsky in the ballet L'après-midi d'un faune 1912 |
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| Small 1930s tablecloth made in cotton and silk |
Died: 1952
Nationality: British
Studies: Trained as a Piano teacher. Travelled to Ceylon with her then husband studying photography and hand weaving. Later once returned to England she set up study workshops at her studios in Ditchling, East Sussex
1939 was created first female Royal Designer for Industry (RDI).
(© University of Brighton Faculty of Arts)
An example of spaced weaving (right), the techinque creates a delicate wrap which lets the light through. Created in the 1940s using cotton warp and silk.
Image copyright © Crafts Study Centre, and courtesy of VADS.
Anni Albers
Born: June 12, 1899
Died: May 9, 1994
Nationality: GermanStudies: Bauhaus, Weimar Germany. Due to limited disciplines being available to women at the Bauhaus, Albers studied weaving.
1925: Married Josef Albers (a student and then master at the Bauhaus). With the Bauhaus coming under pressure from the Nazi party the couple moved to US. In 1971 they founded their institute The Albers Foundation (http://www.albersfoundation.org)
Silk, cotten, and acetate.
145 x 92 cm (57.125 x 36.187 inches)
Die Neue Sammlung Staatliches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Munich
©2008 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Anni Albers, Black-White-Red,
1964Reproduction of a 1927 original. Cotton and silk.
175 x 118 cm (68.875 x 46.437 inches)
Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin
©2008 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Anni Albers, Development in Rose I, 1952
Cotton and hemp complex leno weave. JAAF: 1996.12.2
55.9 x 43.2 cm (22 x 17 inches)
©2007 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Judy Chicago
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| The Dinner Party © 2012 All Rights Reserved, Through the Flower, Judy Chicago, and Donald Woodman |
Nationality: American
Studies: University of California, Los Angeles
A leader of the feminist art movement in US. Her art is used to inspire and teach women about their histories. In The Dinner Party each place setting commemorates a female figure whether in literature, mythology or historical.
© Wikipedia.org
©2012 All Rights Reserved, Through the Flower, Judy Chicago, and Donald Woodman
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| Detail of The Dinner Party ©2012 All Rights Reserved, Through the Flower, Judy Chicago, and Donald Woodman |
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| The Dinner Party ©2012 All Rights Reserved, Through the Flower, Judy Chicago, and Donald Woodman |
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| The International Quilting Bee ©2012 All Rights Reserved, Through the Flower, Judy Chicago, and Donald Woodman |
Issey Miyake
Born: 22 April 1938
Nationality: Japanese
Studies: Graphic Design at Tama Art University in Tokyo. Worked in Paris and New York and in 1970 founded the Miyake Design Studio designing haute couture. |
| A design from the 1990 Rhythm Pleats collection; polyester, pleated, heat-and-pressure-set. |
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| A vintage Issey Miyake gown in a museum exhibit. Wikapedia |
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| The one-piece dress as it should be worn Photo: MDC Telegraph.co.uk |
Miyake created a unique structural way to design clothes and textiles. The construction of the clothes push boundaries and defy convention in both pattern cutting and use of traditional materials.
Tracey Emin
Born:3 July 1963
Nationality: English
Studies: Medway College of Design, Royal College of Art
My Bed
1998 Mattress, linens, pillows, objects
© All rights reserved - The Saatchi Gallery - London Contemporary Art Gallery
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To Meet My Past 2002
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Zandra Rhodes
Born: 19 September 1940
Born: 19 September 1940
Nationality: English
Studies: Medway School of Art & Royal College of Art (mainly printed textile design)
Opened The Fulham Road Clothes Shop (1966-69 with Sylvia Ayton with whom she had studied).
Part of a new wave of British Fashion Designers in 1970s
Founded the Fashion and Textile Museum May 2003
November 2009: Appointed Chancellor of the University for the Creative Arts (previously Epsom School of Art & Design).
What
immediately strikes you about Rhodes's textile designs is the array of
colours and how they bounce off each other to create a unique visual
cacophony. The colours and shapes stimulate the mind and senses and are
unique to her way of working.
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| Copyright: © V&A Images. All Rights Reserved |
The
evening dress to the right is from The V&A on printed silk chiffon
(1969). Here you can see the bold designs using surface print working
together in a 3D format with the design of the dress. The neck border,
sleeves and hem all tie-in the design together and make the overall look
work.
Also
in the V&A is the yellow evening coat which is screen printed on
to felt. The structure of both designs take the lead from how the fabric
falls.
The felt is a stronger less pliable fabric. The use of beading is an important touch to create embellished evening wear on a fairly hardy material like felt.
The felt is a stronger less pliable fabric. The use of beading is an important touch to create embellished evening wear on a fairly hardy material like felt.
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| Copyright: © V&A Images. All Rights Reserved |
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Born: 1930
Nationality: Polish
Studies: Gdansk Academy Fine Art & Warsaw Academy of Fine Art in the early 1950s
Early studies were heavily influenced by nature and used textiles to create weavings and sculptures, some which have been latterly reproduced in bronze.
From the BIRDS CYCLE 1957, black ink on paper 30 x 50 cm
DANCING FIGURES
2001/2002, bronze
7 figures
each ca 165 x 150 x 55 cm
BROWN ABAKANS1969/1972, sisal weaving
300 x 300 x 350 cm,
collection of the artist
Lucienne Day
Born: 5 January 1917
Died: 30 January 2010
Nationality: English
Studies: Croydon School of Art, Royal College of Art.
Married: Furniture Designer Robin Day.
1962 became the just the fifth woman to become a Royal Designer for Industry.
Primarily worked in printed textiles for furnishings and wallpapers, branched out in to carpet and ceramic design. Latterly working on woven and mosaic textile hangings.
Married: Furniture Designer Robin Day.
1962 became the just the fifth woman to become a Royal Designer for Industry.
Primarily worked in printed textiles for furnishings and wallpapers, branched out in to carpet and ceramic design. Latterly working on woven and mosaic textile hangings.
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| Furnishing Fabric for Heals (Fall 1950s) |
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| Lapis |
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| Ducatoon |