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6. The Art of Pattern, Line & Design
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Textile, graphic, advertising, and packaging designers will find a wide assortment of materials to interest them in the archives of Special Collections. For example, Henri Clouzot’s La manufacture de Jouy features plates of 18th-century printed cottons from the Jouy factory in France. Because of the immense popularity of these textiles, the term ‘toile de Jouy’ is universally understood to mean monochrome figurative designs of genre scenes, mythology, and ancient and modern events. More contemporary images are found in the work of Serge Gladky, a French architect, designer, and graphic artist who was primarily known for his Cubist style. In Nouvelles compositions décorative (1931) Gladky uses striking colors in abstracted, yet whimsical, designs of sea life, insects, and birds. Commercial art from the 1920s to the 1950s is easily researched in Modern Publicity: Art & Industry Annual of International Advertising Art and in Paul Poiret’s short-lived Pan.
Design in art is a recognition of the relation between various things,
various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You
recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your
bones, as well as with your eyes.
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