“Art Deco | Definition, Characteristics, History, Artists, Architecture, & Facts.” Britannica, 24 October 2023, https://www.britannica.com/art/Art-Deco. Accessed 8 November 2023.
https://www.britannica.com/art/Art-Deco
[Website] Britannica is offering information on the art movement of Art Deco. States the Art Deco is a popular design of the 1920’s and 30’s characterized by a sleek geometric or stylized form and by the use of man-made materials. Art Deco originated in France in the mid to late 1910’s. Main characteristics reflect the new age of machine designs like simplicity, symmetry, and repetition of elements. Art Deco was associated with a clean and simple look. Represented modernism turned into fashion.
Rosales, Miguel. “Art Deco: Style with a Timeless Appeal.” The New York Public Library, 9 November 2020, https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/11/09/art-deco-95-years-and-thriving. Accessed 8 November 2023.
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/11/09/art-deco-95-years-and-thriving
[Website] The New York Library talked about why Art Deco was timeless. Stated that Art Deco flourished between 1919 and 1939. It was initially known as the “le style moderne” or “Jazz Moderne”. The style was crafted by the French to represent elegance, wealth, and sophistication. Art Deco was closely related to the appreciation for decorative arts. During the height of Art Deco, it was referred to as “futuristic.” It is important to note that the Art Deco movement was popular during the time of an economic boom. The height of Art Deco ended with the Great Depression.
Etynkowski, Marta. “Book Review: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald — Art Deco Style.” Art Deco Style, 9 August 2016, http://artdecostyle.ca/art-deco-style-blog/2016/8/9/book-review-the-great-gatsby-by-f-scott-fitzgerald. Accessed 8 November 2023.
http://artdecostyle.ca/art-deco-style-blog/2016/8/9/book-review-the-great-gatsby-by-f-scott-fitzgerald#:~:text=Gatsby%27s%20mansion%20exuded%20the%20international,%2Drooms%20and%20Restoration%20Salons”.
[Website] The Great Gatsby illustrates the Art Deco period in its book. The women with bobbed hair, the accessories the women wore with sparkling jewels, down to the glasses the champagne was served in. Gatsby’s mansion also embodied the Art Deco period. His library was “paneled with carved English Oak, and probably transported complete from some ruin overseas”. He also had “Marie Antoinette music rooms and Restoration Salons”. Down the vast corridors were other “period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk”.
Keyterms: Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Decorative, Designs, Visual Arts, Architecture, Fashion, Jewelry
“Art Deco Movement Overview | TheArtStory.” The Art Story, 3 November 2016, https://www.theartstory.org/movement/art-deco/. Accessed 16 November 2023.
https://www.theartstory.org/movement/art-deco/
[Website] Art Deco is a modern art style that attempts to infuse functional objects with artistic touches. “Art Deco’s pursuit of beauty in all aspects of life was directly reflective of the relative newness and mass usage of machine-age technology rather than traditional crafting methods to produce many objects.” Among the best-known examples of the American Art Deco style are skyscrapers and other large-scale buildings. American Art Deco is often less ornamental than European Art Deco. Art Deco inspired the design and production of an array of objects – from things like magazine covers and advertisements to functional items such as silverware, furniture, clocks, and cars.
van Huyssteen, Justin. “Art Deco Architecture – The History of 1920s Art Deco Architecture.” Art in Context, 9 June 2022, https://artincontext.org/art-deco-architecture/. Accessed 16 November 2023.
[Website] This is a website about Art Deco and Architecture. Art Deco buildings featured the new structures featured simple lines, rectangular shapes, and no adornment on the facade. The design was most often utilized in the United States for office spaces, government facilities, theaters, and railway stations. Some examples of Art Deco are the Golden Great Bridge and the Hoover Dam. Art Deco interiors were vibrant and bright, with sculpture, murals, and intricate geometric designs made of glass, marble, ceramics, and stainless steel. “Detroit’s Fisher Building was an early form; the foyer was lavishly adorned with art and ceramics.”
Etynkowski, Marta. “Art Deco Fashion — Art Deco Style.” Art Deco Style, 12 February 2009, http://artdecostyle.ca/art-deco-style-blog/art-deco-fashion- part-1. Accessed 21 November 2023.
http://artdecostyle.ca/art-deco-style-blog/art-deco-fashion-part-1
[Website] This website offered information on Art Deco and how it affected fashion. Flapper girls became a thing during this period. Flapper dresses were characterized by masculine forms, streamlined, short hemlines, tubular silhouettes, beaded fringe, geometric designs, and rolled-down stockings.
Gerlinger, Marion. “Arts Décoratifs: The History of Art Deco.” Linearity, 4 May 2022, https://www.linearity.io/blog/art-deco/. Accessed 28 November 2023.
[Website] Art Deco is an art style that attempts to permeate practical objects with artistic touches. Art Deco had shapes that were harmonious, vertical, repetitive, symmetrical, clean, geometric forms, sleek, and uncomplicated. The aesthetic was overall sleak and polished. Art Deco color palette was deep blue, purple, and dark burgundy with gold and silver accents. The materials used in Art Deco were expensive and most times exotic. The style reflects speed, time, and space using bold geometric forms and vivid shades. Art Deco, on the contrary, celebrated the mass production of modern times. However, it has to be mentioned that Deco pieces were rarely mass-produced.
“Art Deco on a Grand Scale – Exhibits Area 1 | Golden Gate.” Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, https://www.goldengate.org/exhibits/art-deco-on-a-grand-scale/. Accessed 28 November 2023.
https://www.goldengate.org/exhibits/art-deco-on-a-grand-scale/
[Website] The Golden Great Bridge is one of the largest examples of the influence Art Deco had on architecture. The chevron design and the angular, stepped brackets on the horizontal struts of the Bridge are nonstructural, added for visual effect. The round lights pointing up emphasize the height of the towers at night, an up-lighting technique often used on Art Deco skyscrapers.
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Hillier, Bevis. Art Deco of the 20s and 30s. Schocken Books, 1985. Accessed 14 November 2023.
https://archive.org/details/artdecoof20s30s00hill/page/n171/mode/2up?view=theater
[Book accessed online] Hillier talks about why he choose the name Art Deco. He chose it because it was easily anglicized, because the name was similar to Art Nouveau, because the name does not only associate to the 1920’s, and because Art Deco was already among common use. I specifically looked at the section of the book which talked about the 1920’s and Art Deco. In the book Hillier showed lots of statues and art of the 1920’s that reflected Art Deco.
“Art Deco Era Jewellery – Lillicoco – Lillicoco.” Lillicoco, https://www.lillicoco.com/pages/the-art-deco-era. Accessed 13 November 2023.
https://www.lillicoco.com/pages/the-art-deco-era
[Website] Art Deco was a reaction to the Art Nouveau movement. Art Deco infused simple decorative designs into everyday objects. The website says, The name is a shortening of the phrase Arts Décoratifs, which was taken from Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes – an art exhibit held in Paris, France in 1925.” Art Deco was already in use, but it was this event that brought it to light. At the beginning of Art Deco it utilized rare materials but when The Great Depression hit it start using more common materials. Art Deco was commonly used in the visual arts like posters and statues. Art Deco in architecture was embodying a spirit of modernism. Art Deco also became popular in fashion and jewelry.
“Art Deco Origins & Influences | ArtDeco.org.” Art Deco Society of New York, https://www.artdeco.org/origins-influences. Accessed 8 November 2023.
https://www.artdeco.org/origins-influences
[Website] The Art Deco Society of New York was able to offer insight into the history of Art Deco. Art Deco drew its inspiration from the tribes of Africa, Paris, ancient Greco-Roman architecture, and the stepped pyramid structures and bas relief carvings of the pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica. The most common Mesoamerican influence in Art Deco architecture, decorative arts and design is the ziggurat. That is the thing that you see on lots of New York building that get more triangle shape at the top, like a pyramid. Art Deco inspiration could be found in many things of its time from objects like perfume bottles to skyscrapers. Art Deco wasn’t officially given its name until 1966