[HN Gopher] William Morris and wallpaper design (2018)
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William Morris and wallpaper design (2018)
Author : severine
Score : 26 points
Date : 2021-11-02 15:53 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| vladharbuz wrote:
| William Morris was also a socialist writer:
| https://archive.md/2vgTB
| JasonFruit wrote:
| He was a part of a group of people with similar socialist and
| anti-modern opinions, who were patronized by wealthy
| capitalists and their wives. One of the things that fascinate
| me is the relation between William Morris and Arnold Dolmetsch,
| a similarly-inclined socialist and pioneer of historically-
| informed musical performance of works from the Baroque and pre-
| baroque periods. Morris insisted that Dolmetsch's performances
| were almost the only music he could bear to hear.
| igravious wrote:
| Including John "Stones of Venice" Ruskin, no?
|
| Interestingly (or not) a recent Yarvin missive argued that
| these socialists were dramatically and radically anti-
| democratic in their leanings. This I find hard to square with
| their agitating for improvements in the material conditions
| of the working-class man and their involvement in working
| men's clubs.
|
| ...
|
| Also: I've argued on this site before that there are
| parallels to be drawn between the backlash to automation at
| the time of Morris and Ruskin that led to the Arts & Crafts
| movement and the backlash to automation that our time will
| engender. Specifically I predict a rise in stuff like bespoke
| hand-crafted artisanal software, for instance. That's on the
| aesthetic front. On the socio-economic front the gig economy
| parallels the treatment of the working poor in the Victorian
| era. Maybe. Someone more knowledgeable on both fronts could
| set me straight no doubt.
| JasonFruit wrote:
| I'm not able to speak to your second point; prognostication
| is not my strength. I do note, though, that Morris and
| Dolmetsch share a contempt for the common man _as he was_ ,
| as opposed to as _they thought he should be_ , that might
| help explain their anti-democratic tendencies. I think they
| also expected society to be transformed by a renewal of
| what they imagined were artists' and craftsmen's attitudes
| towards work and leisure, which they thought would make
| capitalism obsolete. They didn't imagine a political or
| violent revolution so much as a revolution in priorities.
| 0xDEEPFAC wrote:
| Interesting patterns, however, it is notable that all of the
| natural scenes of green probably contained high levels of arsenic
| - as that was one of the key ingredients in green coloring during
| Victorian times.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvxnXOoFl20
| phillc73 wrote:
| The article does say, "All these papers, and nearly all that
| Morris then went on to design were printed using hand-cut
| woodblocks loaded with natural, mineral-based dyes." Is arsenic
| classed as a natural, mineral-based dye?
| yardshop wrote:
| Such beautiful stuff! The lines and the colors remind me of
| another contemporary and one of my favorites, Alphonse Mucha.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Mucha
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| https://www.alfonsmucha.org/Carnation.-From-The-Flowers-Seri...
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