Art Deco
by Marcia Lee Jones
Title
Art Deco
Artist
Marcia Lee Jones
Medium
Photograph - Photography- Digital Artwork
Description
Some historians trace Deco's roots to the Universal Exposition of 1900.[8] After this show a group of artists established an informal collective known as La Soci�t� des artistes d�corateurs (Society of Decorator Artists) to promote French crafts. Among them were Hector Guimard, Eug�ne Grasset, Raoul Lachenal, Paul Bellot, Maurice Dufr�ne, and Emile Decoeur. These artists are said to have influenced the principles of Art Deco.[9]
The Art Deco era is often anecdotally dated from 1925 when the Exposition Internationale des Arts D�coratifs et Industriels Modernes was organized to showcase new ideas in applied arts,[3][10][11][12] although the style had been in full force in France for several years before that date. Deco was heavily influenced by pre-modern art from around the world, and observable at the Mus�e du Louvre, Mus�e de l'Homme and the Mus�e national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Oc�anie. During the 1920s affordable travel permitted in situ exposure to other cultures. There was also popular interest in archeology due to excavations at Pompeii, Troy, the tomb of Tutankhamun etc. Artists and designers integrated motifs from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Asia, Mesoamerica, and Oceania with Machine Age elements.[13][14][15][16][17][18]
Deco was also influenced by Cubism, Constructivism, Functionalism, Modernism, and Futurism.[15][19]
In 1905, before the onset of Cubism, Eug�ne Grasset wrote and published M�thode de Composition Ornementale, �l�ments Rectilignes[20] within which he systematically explores the decorative (ornamental) aspects of geometric elements, forms, motifs and their variations, in contrast with (and as a departure from) the undulating Art Nouveau style of Hector Guimard, so popular in Paris a few years earlier. Grasset stresses the principle that various simple geometric shapes like triangles and squares are the basis of all compositional arrangements.
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