Early products and art before the times of Christ were primary made purely functional or ornamental the two were not often mixed unless they are religious ceremonial tools. Through the developments of new materials, techniques and cultural demand the distinction between products and art was brought closer together making it more likely for good quality functional and aesthetic products to be made outside the demand of religion.
As part of my personal interest and study I visited a handful of foreign and local art museums and related places. One of my most recent visits was to the Maltese archaeological museum where I could see the progression in technology, form and aesthetics between objects of different time periods.
Vintage Camera at the Maltese archaeological museum
From my personal observations I noticed that the development and improvement is never ending but in order to advance and make better products, better materials need to be discovered. With this information at hand I thought of my developments in my works from concept sketch to finished product and how the process could be improved with steady progressive development.
1860-1970 Art movements within that time range
Visit to the archaeology museum – large time line poster
This time line gives a good view of the art movements from the 1870’s to the late 1980’s
Although the art movements are placed along the time line show a fixed point most movements had a varying life time and over lapped each other simultaneously influencing each other.
The time periods allocated for the different art styles indicate when the spot light was on them, showing when that style was at its prime. Any mentioned style could have continued to be developed long after it was no longer in favour with the general society.
Social timeline
This timeline shows the different stages that art has passed trough.
Though art and design keep evolving as we speak.
World War One: 28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918 lasted for 4 years, 3 months and 2 weeks
In-between: 21 years of relative calm and recovery
World War two: 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945 lasted for 6 years and 1 day
Furniture timeline
This is a simple and effective design timeline illustrating the different design stages throughout the years on products in this case it is a chair.
Graphic Design Timeline
This graphics timeline is not displaying design as such but since these stages in art are always interconnected it results in the time lines for art and most design types to have the same historical timeline.
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