Art Deco 2
Art Deco is a movement involving a mix of modern decorative art styles, largely of the 1920s and 1930s, whose main characteristics were derived from various avant-garde painting styles of the early twentieth century. Art deco uses futurism and constructivism with concept, distortion, and simplified geometric shapes and intense colors observing the rise of technology, and speed.
Art Deco, sometimes called “The International Style”, enjoyed its fame between the years of 1920 and 1939. It was said to be an elegant style of popular sophistication in architecture and applied arts which range from beautiful objects made from special material to mass produced, modernized items available to a middle class culture such as architecture, furniture, fashion, and graphics.
While Art Deco began its rise as early as 1920 under the name Style Moderne, its main fame came to be in 1925 when Paris hosted the “Exposotion Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes”
Egyptian, American Indian and African and arts all had their influence on Art Deco in this special decade, and so did specific Greek art. With the power of the Bauhaus and the global style ( International Style) after 1925, Art Deco arrived with its final development that turned out to be a sign of the industrial age, as a result achieving a way to bring together the arts and machine production that had given artists and designers so much difficulty since the industrial revolution began. This blending of modern and ancient influences openly entertained the experimentation being taken over by European artists like Pablo Picasso, Robert Delaunay and Marcel Duchamp.
“The International Style” in architecture developed at the same time, and after 1925 it considerably influenced the final phase of Art Deco. Along with cubist painting and the German Bauhaus school, Designer Le Corbusier and other International Style architects created change from the earlier, more ornamental phase of Art Deco toward a simpler,
Art Deco, sometimes called “The International Style”, enjoyed its fame between the years of 1920 and 1939. It was said to be an elegant style of popular sophistication in architecture and applied arts which range from beautiful objects made from special material to mass produced, modernized items available to a middle class culture such as architecture, furniture, fashion, and graphics.
While Art Deco began its rise as early as 1920 under the name Style Moderne, its main fame came to be in 1925 when Paris hosted the “Exposotion Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes”
Egyptian, American Indian and African and arts all had their influence on Art Deco in this special decade, and so did specific Greek art. With the power of the Bauhaus and the global style ( International Style) after 1925, Art Deco arrived with its final development that turned out to be a sign of the industrial age, as a result achieving a way to bring together the arts and machine production that had given artists and designers so much difficulty since the industrial revolution began. This blending of modern and ancient influences openly entertained the experimentation being taken over by European artists like Pablo Picasso, Robert Delaunay and Marcel Duchamp.
“The International Style” in architecture developed at the same time, and after 1925 it considerably influenced the final phase of Art Deco. Along with cubist painting and the German Bauhaus school, Designer Le Corbusier and other International Style architects created change from the earlier, more ornamental phase of Art Deco toward a simpler,