Art Nouveau/Art Deco

(1920-1928)

By: Ashley Huber, Allie Spengler, and Hunter Taylor

Overview
-Influential movements: neoclassical, constructivism,
cubism, modernism, futurism, and vorticism.
- Art Nouveau: New Art in French
- Aimed at modernizing design.
- It was committed to abolishing the the traditional hierarchy of the arts.
- The purpose was to overturn the belief that paintings and sculptures were superior
to interior design and silver-smithing.

Overview
- It was the first widely popular style in the United States to break the rivalist
tradition of period houses.
- New inspiration and real originality.
- Government efforts to break up trusts and regulate businesses practices gave
way to bigger emphasis between businesses and government.
- The automobile industry was expanding.

Overview
- Art Deco was derived from the
Exposition Internationale des Arts
Decoratifs et Industriels Moderns in
Paris of 1925.
- It was to represent Modernism
turned into fashion.
- Post war mechanic style.

Architecture/Exterior Design
-Architecture in the 1920s was
designed with sleek, non-traditional
elegance.
-It was meant to show wealth and
sophistication.
-The basis of the designs were simple,
clean, geometric shapes.
- Smooth faced stone and metal were
exposed.

Architecture/ Exterior Design

Continued
- Materials used for construction
included: plastic, vita-glass,
ferroconcrete, jade, silver, ivory,
obsidian, chrome, and rock crystal.
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Motifs were used throughout

architectural design, such as nude
female images, foliage, and sun rays.

Wall surfaces were usually smooth.

Often made out of stucco.

Architecture/Exterior Design
Continued
- Polychromy was used.
- Forms were simplified and streamlined.
- The designs were rarely used in houses, but more so for
commercial buildings and skyscrapers, such as The Chrysler
Building, and the Empire State Building.

Theatre of the Times

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Lighting: electric lights, incandescent spotlights,

Kliegl Brothers introduce glass rondel.

Rounded pieces of colored gelatin.

Broadway was booming in the 1920s!

Jolson was a huge star, often performing in

blackface.

Jazz age contributed to the plot of the musicals.

Cinderella stories were transformed into flapper
girls who were drinking and smoking.

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