Aesthetic movement

Not only have we updated and re-released “Blurred” by @sarah_drisc in the Academy, but we’ve also dropped a blog to help you get started with the fundamentals of motion blur. 🌪️ The blog, Motion Blur Photography: Understanding the Fundamentals, breaks it all down, while the course takes you behind the scenes to see how these dreamy, movement-filled images come to life. Both are available now. It’s time to let go and create. 🪄 ✨

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1880s Brownstone - Traditional - Home Office - New York - by David Scott Parker Architects Llc | Houzz

Whistler’s “Peacock Room” with Thomas Jeckyll’s sunflower andirons Throughout history, functional objects have offered designers an opportunity for expression, invention, even fantasy. Andirons, for example, exist solely to hold logs inside a fireplace, so that oxygen can circulate beneath them and the wood can burn more efficiently. But for centuries, designers have turned andirons into an important decorative element in even the most simple interiors.

Decoration in the public rooms of a Victorian house was extensive. There is no such thing as overdone in a Victorian formal parlor. Decorative plaster, elaborate moldings and woodwork, and multi-hued bright colors were common. The Victorian era saw the first widespread availability of wallpaper, and it was used lavishly. Major public rooms were filled with all manner of furniture and display items until they could hold no more......

The Arts and Crafts movement was an international movement in the decorative and fine arts that began in Britain and flourished in Europe and North America between 1880 and 1910, emerging in Japan in the 1920s. It stood for traditional craftsmanship using simple forms, and often used medieval, roman

The Victoria & Albert Museum's exhibition of the 'Cult of Beauty' reflects how art spread into everyday life in the Victorian period