The Story of The British Textile Designer, William Morris

Starting with a famous quote of William Morris: Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. This quote is quite self explanatory that things you keep in your house should be beautiful and useful whereas his designs were simple yeat beautiful. [...]

Although he is primarily known for his elaborate fabric and textile designs, William Morris was also a poet, novelist, illustrator, architect, translator, and social activist. Born in 1834, Morris was alive during the market revolution, during which new technology made mass production possible. [...]

William Morris was a famous artist who mainly focused on his wallpaper and fabric designs. While he was mainly known for his art, even today, he had many other notable careers and accomplishments, one of them being that he founded the Arts and crafts Movement. His other careers were a political [...]

During the Industrial Revolution, in the middle of the 19th century, different industries were developing, economic growth was impressive and a huge new world of cities was emerging. However, it took its toll on both people’s working conditions and their morale as well as on arts and aesthetics. [...]

It is argued whether William Morris should be considered an artist or a craftsman because of his focus on vessels. While the creation of vessels in the ancient world was a seen as a craft because of the mass production and use of these vessels, Bill's vessels were not for mass production nor for [...]

Artisan producer of objects of furniture, poet, novelist, affiliated to the pre-Raphaelite artistic brotherhood, utopian and prophetic socialist. Very rarely in the work of an engagé scholar of the end of the 19th century, the juxtapositions and contradictions of the twentieth century workers [...]

In recent years, the gulf between vocational training in the STEM fields and more a traditional liberal arts education has been at the center of disputes in academia – should universities attempt to educate students with holistic knowledge of the world or simply teach what is professionally [...]

Michelangelo was an Italian architect, engineer, poet, sculptor and a great Italian renaissance man who had specialized in the design of sculptures on religious subjects. He was born to a government agent in Italy on March 6, 1475 and passed on February 18, 1564. By the age of thirteen, [...]

Without a doubt, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo are two of the most influential artists in the history of modern civilizations. With their array of detailed and accurate works, both da Vinci and Michelangelo are both regarded as two of the best artists ever. But despite these apparent [...]