William Morris — Statement Duo | Spring Thicket & Lily | Botanical Art Print

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William Morris — Statement Duo | Spring Thicket & Lily | Botanical Art PrintWilliam Morris (18341896) was the founding genius of the Arts & Crafts movement and the most influential designer of the 19th century the artist, poet, political thinker, and craftsman who argued that beauty was not a luxury but a social necessity. His wallpaper, textile, and tile designs Acanthus, Strawberry Thief, Willow Bough, Pimpernel remain the most widely reproduced decorative art of the Victorian era and the foundation of the global market for

Félix Del Marle (1889–1952) was a French painter and dedicated proponent of Neo-Plasticism — the movement founded by Mondrian and Van Doesburg that reduced art to horizontal and vertical lines in primary colours

Pompeian arabesque — were the immediate source for the Arts & Crafts movement

his art maintained an extraordinary consistency of intent: to create an art of pleasure

sought to render the natural world with both fidelity and grandeur

pure primary colours

economical in form

mythic battles

it dissolved the boundary between fine art and functional design

The great bijin-ga artists — Utamaro

suffused with natural light — are now recognised as among the most beautiful works of the Neo-Impressionist movement

and poet — one of the founding figures of the Nanga (literati painting) tradition in Japan

His warrior triptychs remain among the most dynamic images of 19th-century art

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