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Luis Miguel Howard Art Nouveau jewelry brooch
Art Deco
Art Nouveau
Who can keep these straight?
What’s a ‘deco’ anyway?
Nouveau? How do you say that?
Art Deco Gillouche rouge powder compact
Art Deco and Art Nouveau
are two different eras of artistic styles,
although the time frames do overlap.
Let’s do a brief overview!
Art Nouveau book cover with common swirly lines
The Victorian times were very cluttered.
Very.
Cluttered.
Here are a few examples of the Victorian era decor:
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Makes me feel a little claustrophobic!
Lots of objects, patterns, lace, Gothic spires, vaulted ceilings, historical romantic paintings,
and did I mention clutter?!
Some artistic types were getting rather tired of all this, and wanted curvy lines inspired by flowers and plants; movement & asymmetry*.
*asymmetry means ‘uneven’ or not even on both sides
They included folks like -
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) USA
Stained glass, lamps, ceramics, jewelry, painter, enamels+
Antoni Gaudi Cornet (1852-1926) Spain
Architecture, especially cathedrals and churches
Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) Moravia*
*then it was part of the Austrian Empire & is now part of Czechia
theatrical posters, illustrations
After moving through art circles and societies in several different countries this ‘New Art’ was being shown in art galleries and mentioned in Art Journals.
How do you say ‘new art’ in French?
Art Nouveau!
pronounced: art new - voh!
The Art Nouveau movement wanted to combine different arts, instead of ‘this is pottery’, ‘this is architecture’, ‘this is jewelry’, etc.
By combining different arts they opened up all kinds
of creative avenues.
Fashion+metalwork
1909 Art Nouveau silver metalwork purse; Birmingham;
sellingantiques.co.uk
1902 Casa La Fleury by Fenoglio, Turin, Italy
Example of Art Nouveau architecture
Art Nouveau+furniture
Kind of getting an idea of the swirling nature-inspired lines
of Art Nouveau?
Let’s move to Art Deco!
Written & illustrated by Emile-Jacques Ruhlman
Art Deco
By the beginning of World War I (The Great War, 1914) Art Nouveau had pretty much faded out. With political unrest, deepening contrast between the wealthy and the poor
life was becoming no bed of roses.
Art Deco was a luxury during harsh economic days.
It featured clean, angular lines.
Clearly defined colors, and simple, defined architecture was desired. Instead of 3 and 4 story elaborate structures,
Art Deco focused on one story buildings like gas stations
and diners that Art Nouveau had largely ignored.
Although there are plenty of Art Deco skyscrapers!
The Art Deco movement aligned itself with the tastes of the wealthy until about 1929
and the stock market crash.
After that Art Deco was redirected to
mass production, available to everyone.
Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(Mr. Deskey also did the interiors of Radio City Music Hall.)
Some names to know for Art Deco:
Emile-Jacques Ruhlman
Everyday items, furniture, radios
Susie Cooper
Ceramics for the middle-class
!
1932 Susie Cooper Kestrel shape coffee pot;
Art Deco; hand painted
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture, design theorist
Art Deco did not suddenly become popular.
It progressed from before 1914, gained
more popularity around 1920, and again
in 1929 through about 1944,
at the start of World War II.
Art Deco was then replaced with a movement
called ‘Modernism’.
Courtesy Vassar College Costume Collection
Here are a few more items.
Can you choose correctly which ones are
Art Nouveau, or Art Deco?
Answers are at the end!
4. Buffet, hand carved walnut with brass fixtures
6. Table
7. Elevator Doors; Chicago, Illinois, USA
How did you do?
This has been fun for me, and I hope for you too!
I learned things from researching for this blog.
Thank you!
1930’s Art Deco chandelier by R.Williamson & Co.
Answers & Credits:
1. Art Nouveau, 1901
2. Art Deco, photo cred: Sandra Cohen Rose/Colin Rose
3. Art Deco, 1920 credit: stonefinder, Pinterest
4. Art Nouveau, French circa 1878-1910
5. Art Nouveau, 1905, A.Mucha
6. Art Deco, 1928, Emile-Jacques Ruhlman
7. Art Deco, credit: GreatBigCanvas
8. Art Nouveau, photo cred: techpro12
Places I found information:
Random order-
history.com
en.Wikipedia.org
theartstory.org
listerious.com/famous-art-nouveau-artists
lillicco.com
artdecodesign.dolyan.com
antique-marks.com
1900-02 Art Nouveau French Ball Gown; Pinterest
I want to mention that there are many more
famous artists & designers
associated with both Eras.
This is a very brief overview!
‘Til next time,
inkspired
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