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    ADEEBA BILQUEES

    15 ARB-560
    GF1535
    B.ARCH 4th Yr.

    SUBMITTED TO-
    Ar.FARAZ FAROOQ
    ART-DECO

    Introduction:
    Art Deco was the most fashionable international design
    movement inmodern art from 1925 until the 1940s.
    Art Deco embraced all types ofart, includingcrafts as well
    as fine arts. It was applied todecorative art like interior
    design, furniture,jewellery, textiles, fashion and industrial
    design, as well as to theapplied art of architecture and the
    visual arts of painting, and graphics. Art Deco design
    represented modernism turned into fashion. Its products
    included both individually crafted luxury items and mass-
    produced wares.
    The art deco style, which above all reflected modern
    technology, was characterized by smooth lines,
    geometric shapes, streamlined forms and bright,
    sometimes garish colours.
    Origin of Art Deco

    The word art deco derives from theExposition Internationale


    des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, held inParis in
    1925, where the style was first exhibited.

    History
    Art Deco owed something to several of the major art styles
    of the early 20th century. These formative influences
    include the geometric forms ofCubism (note: Art Deco has
    been called "Cubism Tamed"), the machine-style forms
    ofConstructivism andFuturism, and the unifying approach
    of Art Nouveau. Its highly intense colours may have
    stemmed from ParisianFauvism. Art Deco borrowed also
    from Aztec andEgyptian art, as well as from Classical
    Antiquity. Unlike its earlier counterpart Art Nouveau,
    however, Art Deco had no philosophical basis - it was purely
    decorative.
    The Art Deco style, adopted by architects and designers
    around the world .The style appeared in a number of
    jewellery and fashion ads.
    Art Deco Characteristics, Materials
    Employing new building materials that were manipulated into
    stepped, radiating styles that contrasted sharply with the fluid
    motifs of Art Nouveau, Art Deco architecture represented
    scientific progress, and the consequent rise of commerce,
    technology, and speed.

    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.
    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 item like shark-skin, and zebra-skin.

    Glass Salon (Le salon de verre) designed byPaul Ruaud


    with furniture byEileen Gray, for Madame Mathieu-Levy
    The distinguishing features of the style are simple, clean
    shapes, often with a “streamlined” look; ornament that is
    geometric or stylized from

    representational forms;
    and unusually varied,
    often expensive
    materials, which
    frequently include man-
    made substances
    (plastics, especially
    Bakelite; vita-glass; and
    ferroconcrete) in
    addition to
    natural ones (jade, silver, ivory, obsidian, chrome, and rock
    crystal). Though Art Deco objects were rarely mass-produced,
    the characteristic features of the style reflected admiration
    for the modernity of the machine and for theinherent design
    qualities of machine-made objects (e.g., relative simplicity,
    planarity,symmetry, and unvaried repetition of elements).

    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. Inarchitecture, the Art
    Deco look signalled 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.

    Fancy dress costume, 1911 High School inKing City,


    California
    Art Deco Visual Arts - Famous Artists
    � painterTamara de Lempicka (born Tamara Gorska) (1898-
    1980) - see her oil paintingThe Musician (1929), and herSelf-
    Portrait in a Green Bugatti (1925);

    � sculptorPaul Manship(1885-1966) - see his gilded bronze


    sculpture Prometheus (1933, Rockefeller Center Plaza).

    The Ukrainian-born French poster artistAdolphe Jean-Marie


    Mouron (1901-68), known asCassandre, was the top Art Deco
    graphic artist, who won the Grand Prix for poster design at the
    1925 Paris Expo.

    REFERENCES
    https://www.britannica.com/art/Art-Deco
    http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/art-deco.htm

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