Friday 5 December 2008

Timeline info. However there are gaps!!! :S - Beka

1910
King Edward VII died.
Famous and memorable black Ascot meeting
Lucian Bernhard designs CEG posers for German power company
1911
King George V is crowned at Westminster.
Lucan Bernhad designs trademark for Manoli cigarettes
Georges Braque - During World War II Braque remained in Paris. His paintings at that time, primarily still life’s and interiors, became more somber. In addition to paintings, Braque also made lithographs, engravings, and sculptures.
1912
Wassily Kandinsky - The artist named this period of his creativity to be "really a picturesque fairy tale". During the war-time period because of the shortage of materials the formats of his pictures become ever less, up to that moment when the artist was compelled to be content with gouache painting on cardboards of a small format.
1913
Suffragette Emily Davison runs out in front of the Kings horses at Epson.
Hemlines started to show a little ankle.
American magazine begins using colour in advertising
Franz Marc - Marc entered the army when World War I broke out. He stopped painting, but he kept a sketchbook in which he depicted problems of growth, such as Plant Life Coming into Being and Arsenal for Creation. On March 4, 1916, he was killed at Verdun.
1914
Cyrprus is annexed by Britain after four centuries of Ottoman rule.
Ludwig Holwein designs Red Cross fund-raising poster.
Marsden Hartley - “I am not a ‘book of the month’ artist and do not paint pretty pictures; but when I am no longer here my name will register forever in the history of American Art and so that’s something too.” — Marsden Hartley
1915
lucian bernhard designs German 'Das Groshere Deutschland' periodical cover
Alexander Archipenko - It is generally agreed that Archipenko did his best work between 1910 and 1920. He was so dexterous that much of his sculpture appears facile. This is particularly true of his later work, in which he often appears to be straining for novelty and effect. For instance, in 1924 he started using motors to cause parts of the sculpture to move; he called this genre "Archipentura." His later sculpture is more complicated and decorative, and he seems to have been distracted by superficialities such as color.
1916
David Lloyd George takes over the Liberal party making him Prime-minister.
Edwina Dumm becomes one of he first women editorial cartoonists
Jean (Hans) Arp - His sculpture in the round, like the wooden reliefs, is curving and vaguely suggests the world of nature, such as hills, clouds, or part of a torso, rather than the world of machines. Arp always brought his material, the stone or bronze, to a high degree of finish. He described his sculpture as "concretions." "Concretion," he wrote, "designates solidification, the mass of the stone, the plant, the animal, the man. Concretion is something that has grown."
1917
The Russian revolution began.
Dada artists produce periodicals and books that influence the New Typography
Jacques Lipchitz - His subsequent works were modest in intent and composed of "found objects," frequently incorporated with clay, the whole then being cast in bronze. He also executed portraits.
1918
Coco channel started producing TWINSETS
Grand Duchess Elizabeth died
London Underground symbol is redesigned by Edward Johnston
Max Beckmann - Beckmann's style in the immediate postwar period appears to have been affected primarily by German Gothic art. Its compressed space was well suited to his increasingly philosophical and poetic compositions. The powerful color and roughhewn forms of the Gothic also appealed to Beckmann. Among the paintings of this period the most important is Night (1918-1919)
1919
The IRA is formed in Ireland
El Lissitzky designs 'Beat the whites with the red wedge' poster
Fernand Henri Léger - Léger served in the military from 1914 to 1917. His “mechanical” period, in which figures and objects are characterized by tubular, machinelike forms, began in 1917. During the early 1920s he collaborated with the writer Blaise Cendrars on films and designed sets and costumes for performances by Rolf de Maré’s Ballets Suédois; in 1924 he completed his first film, Ballet mécanique, which was neither abstract nor narrative but a series of seemingly unrelated images (a woman’s teeth and lips, machines, ordinary objects, and routine human activities).
1920
(Coco) WIDE LEGGED TROUSERS for woman. (Based on bell bottoms)
Oskar Schlemmer is appointed Bauhaus Master of Form
Hannah Hoch - Though her work was not acclaimed after the war as it had been before the rise of the Third Reich, she continued to produce her photomontages and to exhibit them internationally until her death. In her work, she used photos, other paper objects, pieces of machines and various other objects to produce images, usually quite large.
1921
Ireland is split leaving Northan Ireland still under British rule but the rest of Ireland independant
Camel cigarette ad 'I'd walk a mile for a camel' is created by N.W.Ayer & Son
Stuart Davis - Exposed at this exhibition to the work of such artists as Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso, Davis became a committed "modern" artist and a major exponent of cubism and modernism in America
1922
The conservative party win the general election making Andrew Bonar Law prime-minister
(Coco) wider generously cut BEACH PJAMAS
Oskar Schlemmer designs the Bauhaus seal
Paul Klee - Major Klee exhibitions took place in Bern and Basel in 1935 and in Zurich in 1940.
1923
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) were married
El Lissitzky publishes 'Topography of Typography
Naum Gabo - In 1913 Gabo went to Paris to see Pevsner, who had a studio there and who introduced him to friends involved in the modern movement in art. Gabo and Pevsner went to Oslo after World War I was declared, and there, in 1915, Gabo made his first sculptures. These pieces were cubist. He used sheet metal and celluloid to build abstract likenesses of human beings; one example is his Head of a Woman (1916), composed of opaque celluloid cut, bent, and attached to a flat plane to become a high relief extending from a flat surface.
1924
For a brief period Ramsay MacDonald from the Labour party became prime-minister making him the first Labour prime-minister for over 200 years.
Austin Cooper designs collage-like London Electric Railway posters
Samuel Peploe - Samuel John Peploe (27 January 1871 - 11 October 1935) was a Scottish Post-Impressionist painter, noted for his still life works and for being one of the group of four painters that became known as the Scottish Colourists.
1925
Queen Alexandra died
BRASSERIERS became adjustable and have division between breasts. By late 20’s Kestro Company made 2 triangle pieces of fabric with a dart at the front creating the ‘cup’. By late 30’s Boning was introduced.
The 'New Yorker' magazine launches, declaring itself "not for the old lady from Dubuque"
Edward Weston - Weston had his own portrait studio in Tropico, California and also began to have articles published in magazines such as American Photography, Photo Era and Photo-Miniature where his article entitled "Weston's Methods" on unconventional portraiture appeared in September, 1917.
1940
The Battle of Britain begins, as German bomber planes begin attacking British airfields
Winston Churchill takes over the Conservative party from Neville Chamberlain making him prime-minister
The first issue of Print magazine was printed
1941
Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States
Prince William of Gloucester is born
1942
Over 1000 British bombers attack Cologne, Germany, devastating 600 acres, including hundreds of factories, and leaving 45,000 homeless
Prince George Edward Alexander died
1943
The British 8th Army begins landing on Italy, across the Strait of Messina, from Sicily
Alvin Lustig 'Duration Apartment'
1944
The final British bombing in the Battle of Berlin is made. Of 811 bombers, 71 are shot down, killing 392 crew members. Since August 1943, 10,000 sorties were flown, dropping 30,000 tons of bombs. The British official history considers the battle an operational defeat for Britain
Prince Richard Alexander Walter George, Duke of Gloucester was born
Herdeg Grahis 1st issue
1945
German armed forces surrender unconditionally to the Allies
Labour win the vote making Clement Attlee prime-minister
CCA Allied Nations advertisements
1946
1947
Princess Elizabeth married Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Ruder and Hoffman join Basel school of Design
1948
The Welfare State is officially set up (NHS)
Matter design for Knoll
1949
Advertisements Skyrocketed with the increase in products introduces into the market in the US as the war ends.
1950
August-Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise was born
CCA Great Ideas ad
1951
Sir Winston Churchill and the Conservatives win the general election again
1952-
February-King George VI died.
1953-
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Stankauski designs AG logo
1954-
Frutier designs Univers typeface
1955-
Sir Winston Churchill retires due to ill health, leaving Sir Anthony Eden to take over as prime-minster.

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