Art Deco

Art deco. A typical building from the era. Miami Beach Florida.

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Stained Glass Ceiling - Buffalo City Hall America

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An art movement involving a mixture of modern decorative art styles, largely from the 1920s and 1930s, whose main characteristics were derived from various avant-garde painting styles of the early 20th Century. Art deco works exhibit aspects of Cubism, Russian Constructivism and Italian Futurism. Celebrating the rise of commerce, technology and speed the artists would use abstraction, distortion and simplification, particularly geometric shapes and highly intense colours.— celebrating the rise of commerce, technology, and speed.

The growing impact of the machine can be seen in repeating and overlapping images from 1925; and in the 1930s, in streamlined forms derived from the principles of aerodynamics.
The name came from the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs Industriels et Modernes, held in Paris, which celebrated living in the modern world.
It was popularly considered to be an elegant style of cool sophistication in architecture and applied arts which range from luxurious objects made from exotic material to mass produced, streamlined items available to a growing middle class.

George Barbier (1882-1932) La Fontaine de coquillages, da Gazette du Bon Ton, marzo 1914

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examples of posters created during the art deco period.

The Streamlined Style" of the '20s and '30s expressed the speed, power and scale of the modern age.