The Background and Reasons of Arts and Crafts Movement

Arts and Crafts Movement (The Art & amp； The background of handicraft movement is the sharp decline of design level after the industrial revolution and the complicated decoration in Victorian era, which led designers in Britain and other countries to hope to revive the medieval handicraft tradition.

At that time, mass production and industrialization were in the ascendant, and a large number of handicrafts were put on the market. However, design is far behind, artists disdain product design, factories only pay attention to production and sales, and design and technology are opposite. At that time, there were two trends in products: 1, the appearance of industrial products was rough and rough, and there was no aesthetic feeling; Artisans still regard handcraft as a powerful tool. The arts and crafts movement aims to resist this trend and rebuild the value of handicrafts. It is required to create "artisans among artists" or "artists among artisans". Although the movement has the advantage of attaching importance to the level of design style, it is a revival movement in terms of the way it adopts, so it is not only retrogressive, but also impossible to become the enlightenment and pioneer movement of modern design.