The most visible and easily remembered  achievement of a singular Mr. Siegfried Bing was the cultivated presence of Art Nouveau.  However I believe that in itself is not enough be laid at his feet, what Mr. Bing is increasingly deserving of is a recognition of a true patron of the Art's.  How often do artists forget that their universe is not held up by the strength of their convictions, or their self apparent genius?  In that Hubris I believe that we have long overlooked a cornerstone of many of the great art movements, the men who put their business in play because of a bone deep enchantment  with Art.

Mr. Bing is one of such men, we can comb records and look through pamphlets to see his presence and influence among these men, but I wonder if we have yet still underestimated him in how he interacted with the craftsmen on day to day.

From Victorian Industrial Advertizing to Arts and Craft and then to Now

OH HAIL VICTORIA

 

Corsets Balenine incassables, by

Alfred Choubrack

 

 

Folles Berugere, Alfred Choubrack

 

Coca Cola Coke Victorian Lady Delicious Refreshing Retro Vintage Tin Sig

SCHWEPPES ADVERTISEMENT 1900

 

CRAFT AND ART

Modern Roman Capitals by James Cromar Watt 1862-1940

 African Marigold by William Morris c.1876

Vase (1901), J. van der Vet

T.J Cobden-Sanderson. The Arts and Crafts Movement

The Masque of Red Death by Harry Clark

TODAY!OH TODAY!!WHAT HAVE WE DONE!!!

 

Cards by the Western New York Book Arts Center. The press is based in Buffalo.

 

  The Slow Textiles Group offers a stimulating and containing space for creative people everywhere. Keeping sight of creative vision, practice and creative contemporaries with whom to share becomes less tenable over time. As work, business, money and family take over, making space for learning, creating, developing, exhibiting, sharing and discussing fades.

 

 

  Brian Teare's Albion Books Third Series is Jonathan Skinner's poetry chapbook Warblers (2010)

The Ms of My Kin"(2009) by Janet Holmes

 

Antlers no.133 by Pancake & Franks

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