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DONE BY: Josianne El Helou - Fall2009
CONTENTS:
1- Introduction
2- The problem
3- Methodology
INTRODUCTION
Literature Review:
History of Art
Art encompasses diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music, literature, film, sculpture, posters and paintings. Its history goes back to several historic periods such as The Victorian Art Era, The Gothic and Wood Type Art Era, The Art Deco Era and The Modernist Art Era.
Starting with The Victorian era, that was a time of strong moral and religious beliefs. The Victorian love for ornate complexity and fussiness was applied to architecture, furniture, interiors, fashion as well as typography and commercial art. Sentimentally, nostalgia and idealized beauty are clearly visible in the images from this era. Women’s fashion during the Victorian era reflected the ornate nature of the times. Typical houses in the classic Victorian style: ornate and romantic. Victorian taste in decoration reflected the mood if the times. Transportation design of the times was also very decorative in its approach. Early telephones were designed to fit right in with Victorian interiors. The Victorian look was heavily influenced by nostalgia for objects of the past.
In the Victorian posters curved typography was hand-engraved with the pictures. The images are framed within architectural motifs which act as borders. Victorian style almost always tries to fill every corner of the entire page with type and pictures and the packaging followed the same decorative approach.
Decades later, Victorian sensibilities are still being recalled to evoke a romance with the past. In 1930s styles were attempting to capture the nostalgic Victorian feeling with hand-drawn type. Even today, a romance with the past easily evoked with elements of Victorian style.
Secondly, The Gothic and wood type era, that was popularized during the late nineteenth century, but its antecedent dates back to around the...