Art Deco Movement
By : Lerato Dimo
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This is my attempt to make my own visual journal of historic and contemporary artifacts and movements. This is part of my ACVL100 Assignment 3 where i am required to research art movements from the 20th century. With these art works and movements i will be comparing the original and modern versions to each other.
I will be comparing a historical artwork from the Art Deco Movement to a contemporary artwork through visual analysis.
Art Deco, sometimes is referred to as just Deco and is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that appeared in France just before World War I. Art Deco influenced and inspired the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theaters, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and the television. Characteristics of Art Deco are smooth wall surfaces, sharp edged, linear appearance and stylized decorative elements using geometrical forms, zigzags, chevrons. They also have low relief decorative panels, stepped or set back front facade, Strips of windows with decorative spandrels and reeding and fluting around doors and windows.
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Figure one : The Empire State Building (1931) (https://study.com/academy/lesson/empire-state-building-architecture-style.html)
Figure one is The Empire State Building is famous for its iconic design which historically used the Art Deco style. It has all the characteristics of an Art Deco style bulding. It uses geometric shapes, has sharp edges, smooth wall surfaces, it is linear in appearance and stripes of windows.
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Figure two : Agatha Christie’s, Poirot (http://theinterioreditor.com/interior-inspiration/interior-styles/the-new-art-deco-art-nouveau-modern-style/)
This modern piece of Deco (Figure two) has all the characteristics of traditional Art Deco. This room has the chevrons on the wall, decorative geometric shapes, low relief decorative panels and a linear appearance.
Both images use the same characteristics and show the evolution of art deco.
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Reference :
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The Interior Editor All Rights Reserved , 2018 : http://theinterioreditor.com/interior-inspiration/interior-styles/the-new-art-deco-art-nouveau-modern-style/
2007, 1920s Fashion & Music : https://www.1920s-fashion-and-music.com/
