remember when you were like 6/7 years old...........and during recess, you and all your classmates would go on the playground to play. How awesome was that!!!
but more specifically, remember how if it was rainy out, the teachers would substitute recess with "arts and crafts" (or playtime for the kids who couldnt sit still)..........well while everyone hated arts and crafts......i fucking loved it!!!
arts and crafts was awesome.....my whole world disappeared and it was just me and my macaroni pictures of spiderman. seriously, i would just immerse myself in whatever piece of work i did. It was so refreshing.
there was a problem though
it only lasted like 30 minutes, then we would go back to learning about math or the different states of the USA.......LIKE THAT STUFFS IMPORTANT!! PFF!!!.........anyway.......so we would go back to learning all this other shit, and it was routine, and boring......no pizzaz!!! unlike arts and crafts time where i could use my hands, and explore and whatnot.........
it was such a tease!!! 30 minutes was in no way enough time to do my da vinci of a spiderman macaroni picture!!! come on!! i would taste greatness, then go back to my "9 to 5, 7 days a week, desk job"-of-a regular class!!
NOW-heres why i mention all this, because I just learned about the arts and craft movement.
A movement that started in england, in 1880, the Arts and Craft Movement was a movement that advocated the true spirit of handicraft, and the connection between art and the laborers. The movement was a "response" (for lack of a better word) to the industrial revolution. the IR made everything machine based, and routine. No creativity, no Pizzaz. Boring, droll, downtrodden, melancholy lifestyles, where people had a 9-5 job of pushing factory buttons and were like drones pretty much. Conditions became shit!! and the common people and their handicrafts were diminishing tenfold!!!
The A&C movement, sought to bring back the creativity and unify art with laborers. Bring back handicrafts, bring back individuality in people and their work.
John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a foreunner of the A&C movement. His philosophy that a unification of art and labor was needed, and that there needs to be a renewal of "handicrafts" was the backbone of the A&C movement.
Ruskin was a smart fellow, because from this movement, what was needed very much happened. Creativity, art made be people, and by hands, and individuality rose and flourished!!
...my arts and craft time was my movement against my Industrial Revolution of a class!!!!!! but for about 30 minutes!! ha!
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