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Decorative Arts/Art Deco Art &Architecture

Decorative Arts/Art Deco Art &Architecture. Question: Define and describe - what is meant by “Art Deco”? Make sure to include traits, characteristics, elements, etc, and provide examples of where art deco can be found – making it “art deco”. What is “Art Deco”.

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Decorative Arts/Art Deco Art &Architecture

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  1. Decorative Arts/Art Deco Art &Architecture Question:Define and describe - what is meant by “Art Deco”? Make sure to include traits, characteristics, elements, etc, and provide examples of where art deco can be found – making it “art deco”.

  2. What is “Art Deco” • Art Deco represented the rapid modernization of the world. While the style was already widespread and was in fashion in the United States and in Europe, the term Art Deco was not known. Modernistic or the "1925 Style" was used. • The name Art Deco was derived from the 1925 "Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs Industriels et Modernes", held in Paris.

  3. What is “Art Deco” • Time Period? Yes & No – Primarily the 1920’s and 1930’s BUT can be any time afterwards • Style? Yes - Primary focus on Geometric Shapes and Linear features (Moderne) • Movement? Yes, celebrates modernization/mechanization. Art Deco was primarily an elegant design style dominant in decorative art, fashion, jewelry, textiles, furniture design, interior decoration, and architecture.

  4. Influences • Machine Age and streamline technologiessuch as modern aviation, electric lighting, the radio, the ocean liner and the skyscraper • Greco-Roman Classicism, and the art of Babylon, Assyria, Ancient Egypt,[and Aztec Mexico.[1] Much of this could be attributed to the popular interest in archeology in the 1920s (eg, the tomb of Tutankhamen,

  5. Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs Paris 1925

  6. Exposition International Arts Decoratifs – Paris 1926

  7. Century of Progress Travel and Transport Building (CHS) The Chrysler Building (photo by Hedrich-Blessing, CHS HB-01718)

  8. Century of Progress Interior of The House of Tomorrow. (Hedrich-Blessing photo, HB-01644-1)

  9. Characteristics Bakelite • commercial • Commercial • Mass Produced

  10. Native American InfluencesPenobscot Building Detroit - constructed in 1928 and designed by Wirt Roland. Notice the Swastika? Asian Influences

  11. Penobscot Building – Detroit

  12. ^Good> Different Versions of the Swastika <Bad

  13. Fuller Building – Detroit

  14. Rockefeller Center, New York

  15. Palmolive – Playboy – Palmolive BuildingChicago (Holibard and Root)

  16. The Chrysler Building – New York

  17. Postcard of Empire State Building, New York The building is deco, as is the postcard itself.

  18. Empire State Building – New York

  19. Niagara-Hudson Building Syracuse, New York

  20. Chicago Board of Trade Building Architects: Holabird & Root 1929 - 1930 “Urban Canyon”

  21. Chicago Board of Trade Building

  22. Chicago Board of Trade Building Lobby What is “Art deco”?

  23. Chicago Board of Trade Building interior

  24. The Field Building/Bank of America

  25. Elevators of NYC & Chicago

  26. - Miami Marlin Hotel Helen Mar Apartments Plymouth Hotel

  27. Coca –Cola Bottling Co. – Cincinnati

  28. Coca – Cola Bottling Co. – Los Angeles(Durrah – designed 1st soundstage for Chaplin Studios

  29. Marianne Theatre – Bellevue, KY (near Cincinnati)

  30. Lake Theatre – Oak Park

  31. Mickey’s Diner – St. Paul, MN

  32. American Art Deco Diners

  33. American Art Deco Gas Stations Bedford, Pennsylvania Tucson, Arizona

  34. Thomas Jefferson H.S. – Los Angeles

  35. Hoover Dam – NV & AZ Border “Cosmic Figure”

  36. Zephyr Train “Zephyr” Inspired Clock

  37. Art Deco “Comes Home” Inter-War America was the prototype of modernity and a symbol of hope for the world. Norman Bel Geddes.'Patriot', radio, model 400.American, 1940.Made by Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corporation.Fada.'bullet' streamliner American, 1940.Made by Fada Radio & Electric Co. Inc., Long Island.

  38. Chase Electric Snack Server Westinghouse Waffle Iron Westinghouse Coffee Percolator Sunbeam Ironmaster Iron Manning Bowman Sandwich Maker Westinghouse Coffee Set

  39. American Art Deco Wurlitzer Jukebox

  40. Art Deco-Influenced Hood Ornaments V8: ‘35 Ford Deluxe Sedan Greyhound: ‘37 Lincoln Limo Swan: ’46 Packard Limo Mercury: ’41 Packard Convertible Deluxe Swan: ’50 Packard Sedan

  41. Bakelite jewelry & boxes

  42. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we well run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning---

  43. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."--- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Tamara de Lempicka, photographed by d'Ora Studio, Paris, 1929.

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