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Art Deco: de Nieva, Miami Florida Ellson, Khryszel Anne Ronidel, Denise Katherine Vicente, Duke Dominic

Art Deco was an artistic style that emerged in the 1920s, influenced by Cubism and Futurism. It was characterized by geometric shapes, streamlined forms, and bright colors. Art Deco embraced many art forms including architecture, interior design, fashion, and more. The style made use of new materials like aluminum and plastics. It emphasized symmetry, simplicity, and bold patterns that spread widely internationally in the early 20th century.

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Art Deco: de Nieva, Miami Florida Ellson, Khryszel Anne Ronidel, Denise Katherine Vicente, Duke Dominic

Art Deco was an artistic style that emerged in the 1920s, influenced by Cubism and Futurism. It was characterized by geometric shapes, streamlined forms, and bright colors. Art Deco embraced many art forms including architecture, interior design, fashion, and more. The style made use of new materials like aluminum and plastics. It emphasized symmetry, simplicity, and bold patterns that spread widely internationally in the early 20th century.

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ART DECO

De Nieva, Miami Florida


Ellson, Khryszel Anne
Ronidel, Denise Katherine
Vicente, Duke Dominic
Introduction
• Art Deco embraced all types of art, including crafts as well as fine
arts. It was applied to decorative art like interior design,
furniture, jewellery, textiles, fashion and industrial design, as well as
to the applied art of architecture and the visual arts of painting, and
graphics.

• The art deco style, which above all reflected modern technology,
was characterized by smooth lines, geometric shapes, streamlined
forms and bright, sometimes garish colours. Initially a luxury style
(a reaction against the austerity imposed by World War I)
employing costly materials like silver, crystal, ivory, jade and
lacquer, after the Depression it also used cheaper and mass-
produced materials like chrome, plastics, and other industrial items
catering to the growing middle class taste for a design style that was
elegant, glamorous and functional.
Origin of Art Deco
• The word art deco derives from the 1925 Exposition
Internationale des Arts Decoratifs Industriels et
Modernes, held in Paris. The show was organized by
an association of French artists known as, La Societe
des Artistes Decorateurs (society of decorator
artists), led by its founders Hector Guimard (1867-
1942), Eugene Grasset, Raoul Lachenal, Paul Follot,
Maurice Dufrene, and Emile Decour, some of whom
were previously involved in Art Nouveau. Note
however that the term Art Deco was not widely used
until popularized by the art historian and critic
Bevis Hillier in her book Art Deco of the 20s and 30s
(1968).
History
• Art Deco owed something to several of the major art
styles of the early 20th century. These formative
influences include the geometric forms of Cubism
(note: Art Deco has been called "Cubism Tamed"),
the machine-style forms of Constructivism and
Futurism, and the unifying approach of Art
Nouveau. Its highly intense colours may have
stemmed from Parisian Fauvism. Art Deco
borrowed also from Aztec and Egyptian art, as well
as from Classical Antiquity. Unlike its earlier
counterpart Art Nouveau, however, Art Deco had no
philosophical basis - it was purely decorative.
Art Deco Characteristics, Materials
• The structure of Art Deco is founded on
mathematical geometric shapes which drew
equally on Greco-Roman Classicism, the faceted
architectural forms of Babylon, Assyria, Ancient
Egypt, and Aztec Mexico - notably their ziggurats,
pyramids and other monumental structures - and
Machine Age streamline designs from aviation,
the radio, and the skyscraper. In particular, Art
Deco designs are characterized by trapezoidal,
zigzagged, and triangular shapes, chevron
patterns, stepped forms, sweeping curves and
sunburst motifs - the latter being visible in a
number of separate applications, including: shoes,
car radiator grilles, the Radio City Music Hall
auditorium, and the spire of the William van Alen
Chrysler Building (1928-30) in New York.

• New materials were also much in evidence, such


as aluminum, stainless steel, plastics, lacquer and
inlaid wood. And while continuing the use of high
quality Art Nouveau materials, such as moulded
glass, horn, and ivory, Art Deco also introduced
exotic items like shark-skin, and zebra-skin.
Applications
• Art Deco styling was most common
in architecture, interior design,
poster art, furniture, jewellery,
textiles, fashion and industrial
design, although it was also applied
to the visual arts such as painting,
and graphics. In architecture, the
Art Deco look signaled something of
a return to the symmetry and
simplicity of Neoclassicism, but
without its classical regularity. The
fact that Art Deco architectural
designs were so enthusiastically
adopted by architects in countries as
diverse as the United Kingdom,
Spain, Cuba, Indonesia, the
Philippines, Argentina, Romania,
Australia, New Zealand, India and
Brazil, says much for the style's
novel monumentality.
Influences
• art nouveau - deco kept the nature motifs of its
predecessor but discarded its flowing organic shapes
and pastels for bolder materials and colours such as
chrome and black
• cubism -painters such as Picasso were
experimenting with space, angles and geometry
• early Hollywood - the glamorous world of the
silver screen filtered through to design using shiny
fabrics, subdued lighting, and mirrors. Cocktail
cabinets and smoking paraphernalia became highly
fashionable
The names
• Eileen Gray - furniture
• Raymond Templier - jewellery
• Clarice Cliff - pottery
• René Lalique - glass and jewellery
Below are some fun facts about Art
Deco:
• The name Art Deco is derived from the French phrase “Art Decoratif”. The visual style was
first exhibited in Paris in 1925 during the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs
Industriels Modernes.
• Aside from architecture and buildings, Art Deco style has also incorporated in other areas,
including furniture, jewelry, clothing, and automobiles.
• Striking geometric shapes are one of the most defining aspects of Art Deco style.
• Art Deco architecture and decor commonly use shiny metals in their bold patterns.
• By World War II, Art Deco styles were fading out of fashion. However, the bold designs
were revived during the late ’60s and have been an influence to many artists and designers
ever since.
• Art Deco designs even spread into fonts and layouts, making posters and ads from its era
very distinctive. The typical Art Deco font style creates a balance between the thickness and
the thinness of the parts of a single letter.
• Classic Art Deco style is full of rectangular forms that are arranged in geometric fashion
configurations, and then artistically adorned with curved elements.
• In Art Deco architecture, wall openings are often filled with glass blocks, allowing daylight
to come in. Windows have either a square punctured opening or a round one.
Get the look
• Furniture - choose strong, streamlined shapes for furniture and in single pieces rather
than suites.
• Fabrics - stick to plain or geometric fabrics and add highlights with cushions also in one
solid block of colour.
• Floors - plain polished parquet is perfect for floors. Linoleum in abstract designs or black
and white chequerboard vinyl tiles are also typical.
• Rugs - floors would have been overlaid with a large rug in geometric patterns. These were
often handmade by artists such as Duncan Grant (of Bloomsbury Group fame).
• Fireplaces - fireplaces should be rectangular and bold. Surrounds were often tiled in pink,
green or beige. They were made of concrete and not many survive today.
• Colour - halls suit bold colour schemes such as silver, black, chrome, yellow and red.
Creams, greens and beige, or oyster and eau-de-nil suit living rooms and bedrooms.
• Cupboards - cabinets, wardrobes, etc should be in pale veneered wood and simple shapes
in keeping with the light, airy feel.
• Design - the stepped profile is the epitome of the art deco shape, found everywhere from
uplighters to picture surrounds. Also look for zigzags, chevrons and lightning bolts.
• Lighting - lights featuring female figures holding the ball of the lamp are typical and good
reproductions abound. Also look for chrome, a brand new material at the time, and glass.
Glass would have been etched, sandblasted or enamelled rather than coloured.

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