Owen Jones — Persian | Grammar of Ornament Design Print

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Owen Jones — Persian | Grammar of Ornament Design PrintOwen Jones (18091874) was a Welsh architect and designer whose Grammar of Ornament (1856) 112 chromolithographic plates documenting decorative traditions from ancient Egypt to the Renaissance became the single most influential design reference book of the 19th century. Superintendent of Works for the Great Exhibition of 1851 and principal decorator of the Crystal Palace, he shaped the visual culture of the Victorian age. His systematic documentation

His Vertigo (1958) poster — a spiralling vortex of red and black containing two falling figures — reduces Hitchcock's complex psychological thriller to a single image of vertiginous dread

A pivotal figure in the Pont-Aven school

The five scripts of classical Chinese calligraphy — Seal Script

The Old Guitarist

photography

Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) is widely regarded as the father of abstract art

A Prix de Rome winner and professor at the École des Beaux-Arts

and visual education is incalculable

000 drawings and sketches with a reed pen

letter-press typography — are among the supreme works of European poster art

inspired Rachmaninoff's orchestral tone poem

Henri Privat-Livemont (1861–1936) was a Belgian Art Nouveau designer who trained in Paris and returned to Brussels to become one of the movement's most celebrated poster artists

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