Monday, 20 October 2014

art deco and more

art deco first appeared in france after world war 1, and spread world wide in the 1920's and faded out after the world war 2.
it combines traditional patterns with influences from machine age imagery and materials. it includes rich colours and geometric shapes from new technologies. art deco ran to symmetry rather than asymmetry  that was becoming popular
- simplified arts and crafts
- coined 1960s
- modern world
- new products in affordable materials due to new machinery - production lines
- 1920s need for escape
- flapper girls
- futurism - italy manifesto 1909 
- vortices - Britain - short lived
- 1914 - geometric towards abstraction
- independent alternative movement in an image 
- jacob epstien - rock drill - masculine
- taken over by machine - different feeling after war - lot more negative
- gaudier brzeska - killed aged 24 in ww1 lot of work done
- 1925 pris exhibition after ww1 Frances ambition
- suffragettes 1897 (1903)
- emily Davison died horse got vote in 1918
- less feline fashion world events tutankhamun style = fashion style for women cleopatra film (early 1920s)


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