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Art Deco, similar to Art Nouveau, is a modern art style that attempts to infuse functional objects with artistic touches. This movement is different from the fine arts (painting and sculpture) where the art object has no practical purpose or use beyond providing interesting viewing.
Art Deco is a style of decorative art, design and architecture of the 1920s and 1930s in Europe, [1] the United States and other countries. It was named after an international exhibition held in Paris in 1925, [1] but there are some examples dating back to before the First World War. [2]
Sep 8, 2017 · Art Deco was a sprawling design sensibility that wound its way through numerous early 20th Century art and design forms, from fine art and architecture to fashion and furniture, as well as...
Arguably Art Deco – a term coined in the 1960s – isn't one style, but a pastiche of different styles, sources and influences. Art Deco designers borrowed from historic European movements, as well as contemporary Avant Garde art, the Russian ballets, folk art, exotic and ancient cultures, and the urban imagery of the machine age.
Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs ( lit. 'Decorative Arts' ), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I ), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.
The decorative style of the 1920s and 1930s. The name was derived from the first major exhibition of decorative arts after the Great War, 'Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes', held in Paris in 1925. The characteristic shapes of Art Deco were geometric or stylized, derived from the modernist forms of Art Nouveau.
Art Deco, movement in decorative arts and architecture in Europe and the United States during the 1920s and ’30s. Its distinguishing features include simple, clean shapes, often with a streamlined look; ornament that is geometric or stylized from representational forms; and unusually varied materials.
