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ART DECO
Art Deco
Represents a progression from the outdated art Nouveau
An action made by French designers to maintain leadership in taste and design
“Art Deco” name derived from the name of the exhibition
“Paris exposition internationale des Arts Decoratifs”
Work displayed in the exhibition showed an effort to modernize French interior design,
in which unusually architecture took second place and interior design provided the focus
Effected all of the fine and applied arts as well; Furniture, sculpture, clothing, jewelry and graphic.
Art Deco represented luxury, glamour, exuberance, and faith in social and technological progress.
Characteristics of Art Deco:
Classical inspiration
The use of smooth surfaces
Love of the exotic, sumptuous materials
Repeated symmetrical geometric motifs
Art deco’s linear symmetry was a distinct departure from the flowing asymmetrical organic curves of art nouveau
Dynamic patterns used in Art Deco included:
Sunburst derived from ancient Egyptian art, A mark
for the Art Deco style is the
Lighting bolts
Zigzags
Triangles
Art Deco materials and finishes:
Aluminum
Shiny metals; stainless steel and chrome
Plastic
Mirrors
Glass walls
Art Deco favored intense, bold and contrasts in colors compared to pastel colors of Art Nouveau or black and white in modern styles
Past French inspired art deco
Example of the first project of art Deco; Andre Groult
Andre Groult
Bomb-shaped chest of drawers
Past French inspired art deco
Sunburst motif
Sunburst motif
Zigzag & Triangles patterns
Art deco lighting
Art Deco glass work
Art Deco glass work
Art Deco Furniture
Art deco in Britain
Was slow to influence British design ,
After the IWW a movement of revival
Art Deco in America
Represented modern life of America
Hollywood, cinema, skyscrapers, banks and wealth
Influenced the Streamline American Moderne
Chrysler Building, New York
Empire state building , New York
End of Art Deco
Even during the great depression in1929, Art Deco
managed to survive for the use and mix of more
affordable materials
The WWII on 1939 marked the end of art deco
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