Response: Wolfsonian

The Wolfsonian’s Art and Design in the Modern Age Collection was a diverse assortment of works collected to showcase and document development around the world since the industrial revolution to today. The media of the works vary from pots and pans and schema of pots and pans to propaganda to stained glass, paintings and cabinets, you name it they might have it. The exhibit had a ton on display such as design reformation caused by the industrial revolution, objects no longer made by hand but by machine and how designers and artist responded to that.

 I think a section that stood out during my walk through the exhibit was the Modern Decorative Arts because of how the artists and designers embraced reform and moved away from geometry and simplification and were inspired by nature. The gate made by Alessandro Mazzucotelli was great cause it was used for its purpose of dividing space instead of just putting it up against the wall to display it. And the patterning