Arts and Crafts Movement
The Arts and Crafts philosophy
came about mainly because of Ruskin's (1819-1900) social criticism, which is
the fair and just relation between individual and society to the qualities of
its architecture and to the nature of work. Ruskin considered the sort of
mechanized production created in the industrial revolution to be bland and robotic and he thought that a healthy and
moral society required independent workers who designed the things they made.
His followers favored craft production over industrial manufacture
and were concerned about the loss of traditional skills, but they were
arguably more troubled by effects of the factories than by machinery
itself .
A critic and writer on various
varied topics such as geology, architecture, ornithology, literature,
education, botany and political economy he principally argued that the
artist must be true to nature.
Works such as his 'Modern
painters' , together with knowledge he received from travelling he founded the
Guild of St. George that is still found today .
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