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Some musings about Art Deco.
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To me the one on the right isn't Deco, it's just a realistic painting though a very good one. The two on the left certainly are, the middle two I'm not sure. The one of the band doesn't look 1920's or 30's to me and Deco has to evoke the era.
I've been looking through period film posters but very few are really Deco much to my surprise. I do like these two:
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by Peter Smith
I'm starting to think deco art is not so much a style, as a feeling about that period. 
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Really like the woman with blue cat, but could only find that on a Cubism paint by numbers website! No mention of the artist. There is a Czech artist Jiri Petr who does quite a lot of work in a similar style - these are a few of his. I think he classes them as Cubism, but they have an Art Deco feel.
Been reading a bit more about Art Deco and it is described as a specific style which has sleek geometric or stylised forms, usually in bold colours - these two images were used to illustrate it.
Been reading a bit more about Art Deco and it is described as a specific style which has sleek geometric or stylised forms, usually in bold colours - these two images were used to illustrate it.
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by Jenny Harris
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I thought I'd have a look at what Wikipedia says about Art Deco;
Art Deco, short for the French Arts Décoratifs, and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. Through styling and design of the exterior and interior of anything from large structures to small objects, including how people look (clothing, fashion and jewelery), Art Deco has influenced bridges, buildings (from skyscrapers to cinemas), ships, ocean liners, trains, cars, trucks, buses, furniture, and everyday objects like radios and vacuum cleaners.
It got its name after the 1925 Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) held in Paris.
Art Deco combined modern styles with fine craftsmanship and rich materials. During its heyday, it represented luxury, glamour, exuberance, and faith in social and technological progress.
So there it is......fine craftsmanship, luxury and glamour....sums up Lew and me perfectly!
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Very interesting Peter. I clicked on the link to the 1925 exhibition and found these examples of items shown there. The Deco movement began before WW1 but the exhibition was delayed because of it and I assume that after such an awful period everyone was looking for more decorative work in all aspects of life.
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Yes Deco is everywhere, not just in paintings and posters. I recall many buildings in this style, often cinemas and swimming pools, sadly many are gone now.
The very familiar Broadcasting house is deco style...
And this colossal statue...
The Chrysler building....
Here's a poster featuring one of the many deco style pools....
Much the same can be said of Art Nouveau style, it flowered briefly before World War 1, then got swept away by Deco, but it's still with us in art and statuary and buildings etc. I guess the good stuff lives on.
And this colossal statue...
The Chrysler building....
Here's a poster featuring one of the many deco style pools....
Much the same can be said of Art Nouveau style, it flowered briefly before World War 1, then got swept away by Deco, but it's still with us in art and statuary and buildings etc. I guess the good stuff lives on.
