Gobelin Tapestries "What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness." -Thomas Bailey Aldrich Throughout the 17th and 18th century many memorable works of art were created. There is one piece of art that stands out they are the Gobelins. Gobelins are luxurious tapestries made out many fine threads. These tapestries hung on the walls of many great castles, homes, and prominent buildings. They have inspired generations of artists to make their creations as beautiful, if not equally beautiful. In the paragraphs that follow there will be explanations of how the Gobelin tapestries came to be, how they were made, and their influence on the world. The Gobelin tapestry industry was created in the "mid-15th century, when Jean Gobelin and Philbert Gobelin set up a dye works on the outskirts of Paris(Microsoft Encarta)." They set the basis of what would become the greatest industry to grace France. In the 17th century King Henry IV made the Gobelin dye works into a tapestry industry. This industry became so distinguished that Colbert took it over in 1662. The Gobelin factory came to known as the "Manufacture royale des meubles de la Couronne, and, as this implies, it was planned to produce everything necessary to the furnishing of the royal palace(Blunt 194)." In 1663 Colbert appointed Lebrun as the director of this industry. Under his command he created a business that did everything from painting to marbling. Lebrun also set up a school to learn the trade. This school consisted of four stages. The four stages were the "elementary level, advanced level, academy and tapestry school(Weigert 19)." Along with the school for the creation of Gobelins, they offered a free drawing school. Due to... ... middle of paper ... ...e lovely when they were created, and became even lovelier as the years grew. These tapestries will live on forever. They will always represent the "Greatness of France", and it's people. Bibliography: Works Cited Bazin, Germain. Art Treasures in France, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York. 1969 An overall good book for the latter part of the industry. Blunt, Anthony. Art & Architecture in France 1500-1700, Penguin Books, Maryland. Gave a great past history on industry Faniel, Stephane. French Art of the 18th Century, Libraire Hachette Et Societe D'Etudes Et De Publications Artistiques. 1956. Gave impressive tapestries and influences Microsoft Encarta. CD-ROM Gave a great base of knowledge Weigert, R.A. French Tapestry, Charles T. Bradford Company, Massachusetts. 1962 Gave me everything I needed to know about the tapestries.
Third Impressionist exhibition in Paris, held in 1877. Currently displayed in the Art Institute of
Tapestries began to be made for more causal events. They then evolved into representing every day happenings. Tapestry became the art of that time period and told eventually we're studied and used by historians today. Original tapestries and their replicas for a smaller cost are sold today for people's interest. In todays time, we have more convenient machines that weave tapestries faster than the medieval times. Not as many tapestries are made and sold today compared to the medieval period (Touch of Tapestry).
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The factory system was the key to the industrial revolution. The factory system was a combination of Humans and new technology. New technology was arriving every day. The greatest invention during this time was the steam engine. The creation of the steam engine was credited to James Watt. There had been other steam engines before James Watt’s but none of them were efficient. Watt’s engine was the first efficient engine that could be used in a factory. The steam engine had the strength of ten thousand men.(Pollard) This was not the only invention that helped the factory system evolve. Textiles were a major product of the Industrial Revolution. Production was slow at first in the factory. In 1764, a British inventor named James Hargraves invented the “Spinning Jenny.” This lowered production time which enabled the factory to produce more per day. In 1773, John Kay, an English inventor, created the “flying shuttle” which lowered the production time even more.(Encarta) If production had not been speed up, the Industrial Revolution would have not had that big of effect as it did in North America.
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Paris is the home of Western World cultures and many famous designers and artist even after the end of world war II United States of America even tried to take over the control and leadership of vital art areas France was still determined to keep the records of the past arts as well as the leadership. ...
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One of the first and most prominent of these changes was in the textile industry. The textile industry was the staple of the industrial revolution. Before the industrial revolution, the textile, or more specifically cotton, industry was performed at home. It happened in a few steps. First, cotton was farmed and harvested. Then, the in home process began. Workers called “spinners” would take the cotton and form it into strands. These strands were the ...
The Industrial Revolution started in Britain during the mid-1700s; there, the British invented and developed technology which transformed the textile business. During the early days, every household owned a spinning wheel. They got the wool, cleaned it, boiled it, and then combed it. The spinning wheel could catch the fibers and lengthen it- giving you yarn. One day, Jenny Hargreaves accidentally knocked over her spinning wheel and the wheel kept spinning. Her husband, James Hargreaves, walked in and came up with a brilliant idea. In 1764, he developed the spinning jenny. The spinning jenny could spin several threads at once (8). In 1774, Richard Arkwright invented a water-powered machine that cold hold 100 spindles of thread. In the 1780s, Edmund Cartwright built a loom powered by water, which could produce 200 times more cloth in one day than was possible before. All of these inventions were classified and were to remain only in England. America was desperate for their own Industrial Revolution so Samuel Slater decided to leave England for the large rewards that the Americans were offering. He memorized the designs of the machines because any sketches aboard the ship would be dangerous. In America, Slater and Moses Brown opened the first American factory. Many copied this model textile business. Francis Cabot Lowell and the Boston Associates built a large textile factory in Massachusetts; however, they mostly hired women and children to do the work because they could pay them less than they would have to pay a man. Today, the United States has become the leader in the industrialized world.
The iconography of the picture could represent art in the view of the fauvists. Fauvists wanted to be free from tradition and natural colors. They wanted to be free to explore their world of colors as they saw fit. Fauvists and expressionists did not like to be held to strict rules when it came to painting. It could be that Le Bonheur de Vivre was a state in which they where trying to reach, but in reality could get never get there. On the other hand, could it be a place where they could only reach in their dreams? Critics have struggled with the interpretation of Matisse’s painting since the first display. That may have been Matisse’s meaning after all.
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The Arts and Crafts movement, like many art movements, began as a reaction to the industrialization of society nearly a century earlier. Although it had roots in Britain, where the Industrial Revolution began, around 1880, the Arts and Crafts move...