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1920s &1930s
The document discusses the characteristics and basic elements of Art Deco, an artistic and design style that was popular in Western Europe and the United States in the 1920s-1930s. Key features included simple geometric shapes, an emphasis on decorative elements, and celebrating modern lifestyles, with a focus on symmetry, flatness, geometry, and streamlined curves. Several graphic design organizations were also founded in the US during the 1920s.
1920s &1930s
- 1. Germany/France/ Great Britian andUSA 1920s & 1930s
- 17. Characteristics of ArtDeco • Simple geometric shapes • Lack of a political directive • More emphasis on decorative elements • Celebrates glamour • Celebrates affluent modern lifestyles
- 28. Basic Elements ofArt Deco Simplicity Symmetry Planarity – (flat, two-dimensional) Geometry Machine aesthetic Reductive geometric abstraction
- 37. Streamlining Stylistic element ofArt Deco that Uses clean sweeping curves
- 90. 1920s Organizations foundedin US • The Art Director’s Club • Society of Typographic Artists in Chicago • American Institute of Graphic Arts
Editor's Notes
- #3 World War I
- #4 After World War I, 1920
- #5 1942
- #6 after 1945
- #19 Cubism
- #20 Picasso, 1912Cubism
- #21 Picasso, Ma Jolie, 1911 Cubism
- #22 Futurism
- #23 Futurism
- #24 Futurism
- #25 Vortisism
- #26 Vortisism
- #27 Purism
- #34 Club car advertisement
- #35 Dubonnet advertisement
- #36 Jean Carlu
- #38 Streamlining
- #39 Streamlining
- #43 Bifur designed by Cassandre
- #44 Designed by Cassandre0
- #45 Broadway type designed by Morris Fuller Benton, American Type Founders
- #46 Broadway type
- #47 Cassandre designed Peignot, 1937
- #61 Johnston Sans, by Edward Johnston.
- #90 Leo Marfurt
- #92 Cubism, Futurism, Purism
- #94 Bauhaus, DeStjll,DaDa