A Different Canvas

"If art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way

that appeals to the senses or emotions, then the world might agree

that the Giotto and Morris pieces are both fundamentally works of art.

How then did Western cultures come to
assign greater value to a painting than a textile?"

Liz Harger

A Different Canvas: Series Prologue - Liz Harger - "This is the first in a number of inter-related posts, in which Venetian Red explores aspects of artist-designed textiles."
http://venetianred.net/2009/09/18/a-different-canvas-series-prologue/

A Different Canvas: Raoul Dufy - Liz Harger - "Dufy’s textile designs are where he manipulates the decorative into sensuous and ecstatic works...Poiret saw no distinction between the fine and applied arts; he saw art and fashion as indivisible."
http://venetianred.net/2009/10/07/a-different-canvas-raoul-dufy/
 
A Different Canvas: The British Abstractionists - Liz Harger - "While primarily known as sculptors and painters, the British “Abstractionists” Ben Nicholson (1894-1982), Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975), and Henry Moore (1898-1986) also designed a fair number of textiles...Nicholson, Hepworth, and Moore were eager to experiment with textiles; they all considered designing for the applied arts to be a legitimate part of their artistic output."
http://venetianred.net/2009/11/13/a-different-canvas-the-british-abstractionists/
 
A Different Canvas: Charles Burchfield's Landscapes for Interiors - Christine Cariati - Burchfield is "...an interesting variation on the theme of established artists venturing into textile design and yet another example of the fruitfulness of embracing both decorative and fine art."

http://venetianred.net/2009/11/18/venetian-red-notebook-charles-burchfields-landscapes-for-interiors/
 

Other textile related posts include:

 

Poetic License": A Joan Schulze Retrospective" - Liz Harger

http://venetianred.net/2010/02/20/joan-schulze/

 

Stripped Bare: Amish Quilts at the de Young - Liz Harger

http://venetianred.net/2009/11/25/stripped-bare-amish-quilts-at-the-de-young/

 

Hmong Appliqué - Liz Harger

http://venetianred.net/2008/06/10/hmong-applique/

 

Inner Sympathy of Meaning - Liz Harger

http://venetianred.net/2008/05/27/inner-sympathy-of-meaning/

 

Venetian Red Notebook: Kuba Cloth, the Geometry of the Labyrinth - Christine Cariati

http://venetianred.net/2009/08/07/venetian-red-notebook-kuba-cloth-the-geometry-of-the-labyrinth/

 

Ethnography by the Bay, Textiles - Liz Harger

http://venetianred.net/2009/02/15/ethnography-by-the-bay-part-i-textiles/

 

Venetian Red in Berlin: Ethnological Arts from Azerbaijan - Liz Harger

http://venetianred.net/2008/10/22/venetian-red-in-berlin-ethnological-arts-from-azerbaijan/

 

Tomorrow's Headlines? Oil and Textiles in Daghestan - Liz Harger

http://venetianred.net/2008/07/03/tomorrows-headlines/

 

My Own Piece of Paradise: Uzbeki Suzanis - Liz Harger

http://venetianred.net/2008/06/16/my-own-piece-of-paradise/