DOI Heft:
No. 286 (January 1917)
DOI Artikel:Whitley, William Thomas: Arts and crafts at the Royal Academy, [3]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.24575#0201
The Arts and Crafts Exhibit ion
ARTS AND CRAFTS AT THE They admit, however, that the manufacturers have
ROYAL ACADEMY. not interested themselves sufficiently in the move-
^* (Third Article ) ment, and that in view of the German efforts it is
of the first importance to bring them into closer
Last summer when the prospectus of the recent relationship with the artists. To achieve this is one
Arts and Crafts Exhibition was issued it was of the objects of the Committee, which contains
accompanied by some notes on the " Werkbund," some of the ablest of French decorative artists and
an association formed in Germany a few years some of her most enterprising manufacturers. Its
ago with the object of capturing the markets of aims also include the re-organisation of the teaching
the world for German art manufactures. The of the decorative arts, so that the schools shall
notes showed how readily the scheme was adopted provide the factories with skilled craftsmen in
in Germany, whose Government sent representa- touch with new ideas ; the cultivation of the taste
tives here to report on the English craft revival, of the purchasing public, and the holding of
and German students to work at the Central exhibitions.
School of Arts and Crafts in London : and how The objects of the Paris Committee are in com-
the "Werkbund" was supported by the German plete agreement with those of the promoters of
manufacturers, great and small alike." It was the similar movement in England, and the terms
pointed out by the Committee
of the Arts and Crafts Society
that the German efforts would
be intensified rather than
relaxed after the war, and we
were urged to abandon our
inert attitude and to organise
our industries, and, as a first
step in this direction,
to support the exhibition at
Burlington House.
It is interesting to see that
France is making a similar
appeal, backed by identical
arguments and directed
against the common enemy.
In the French appeal, issued
by the Committee that has
its headquarters at the Musee
des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, it
is complained that there is
a tendency abroad to think
that decorative art in France
is purely traditional and
follows imitative rather than
creative lines. This view in
the opinion of the Committee
is a mistaken one, and they
point out that innumerable
examples of excellent modern
work have been shown at the
Musee des Arts Decoratifs
and other galleries during the
past five and twenty years.
•An account of Jjis ^nisatton ^ designed by ernest w. gimson ; executed by e. smith
was given in "The Si mo \ tar property of Miss Gimson)
Book of Decorative Art ior 1911. {ineptojuy/ /
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ARTS AND CRAFTS AT THE They admit, however, that the manufacturers have
ROYAL ACADEMY. not interested themselves sufficiently in the move-
^* (Third Article ) ment, and that in view of the German efforts it is
of the first importance to bring them into closer
Last summer when the prospectus of the recent relationship with the artists. To achieve this is one
Arts and Crafts Exhibition was issued it was of the objects of the Committee, which contains
accompanied by some notes on the " Werkbund," some of the ablest of French decorative artists and
an association formed in Germany a few years some of her most enterprising manufacturers. Its
ago with the object of capturing the markets of aims also include the re-organisation of the teaching
the world for German art manufactures. The of the decorative arts, so that the schools shall
notes showed how readily the scheme was adopted provide the factories with skilled craftsmen in
in Germany, whose Government sent representa- touch with new ideas ; the cultivation of the taste
tives here to report on the English craft revival, of the purchasing public, and the holding of
and German students to work at the Central exhibitions.
School of Arts and Crafts in London : and how The objects of the Paris Committee are in com-
the "Werkbund" was supported by the German plete agreement with those of the promoters of
manufacturers, great and small alike." It was the similar movement in England, and the terms
pointed out by the Committee
of the Arts and Crafts Society
that the German efforts would
be intensified rather than
relaxed after the war, and we
were urged to abandon our
inert attitude and to organise
our industries, and, as a first
step in this direction,
to support the exhibition at
Burlington House.
It is interesting to see that
France is making a similar
appeal, backed by identical
arguments and directed
against the common enemy.
In the French appeal, issued
by the Committee that has
its headquarters at the Musee
des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, it
is complained that there is
a tendency abroad to think
that decorative art in France
is purely traditional and
follows imitative rather than
creative lines. This view in
the opinion of the Committee
is a mistaken one, and they
point out that innumerable
examples of excellent modern
work have been shown at the
Musee des Arts Decoratifs
and other galleries during the
past five and twenty years.
•An account of Jjis ^nisatton ^ designed by ernest w. gimson ; executed by e. smith
was given in "The Si mo \ tar property of Miss Gimson)
Book of Decorative Art ior 1911. {ineptojuy/ /
1S9