Concept information
Preferred term
Art deco
Definition
- The Art Deco movement takes its name from the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1925, which marked its heyday. The term was later coined to designate the styles that were in vogue between 1910 and 1940. The organisers established the criterion that every design should be modern and not based on historicist styles. The purpose of the exhibition was to showcase contemporary decorative art, focusing particularly on modernity of design and style. This style embraces various artistic forms and refers to a refined and elegant concept of living, representative of modern times. Art Deco assimilates the innovations of the artistic avant-gardes of the early 20th century, the bold forms of Cubism, the bright colours of Fauvism, the simplified forms of Expressionism or the dynamism of Futurism, but through a conciliatory attitude that avoids an aggressive rupture. In its beginnings, the Art déco aesthetic was more classicist and decorative, and the use of updated period motifs prevailed: scrolls, roses, fountains or tropical plants. Designers reformulated icons from other cultures in a contemporary pattern that emphasized modern forms. In the mid-1920s, Art Deco took on more radical assumptions of geometric and neo-cubist aesthetics with a series of basic repertoires that sought the effect of movement in striated surfaces, staggered volumes, zigzags, triangles, deconstruction of figures or technological symbols of an industrial nature.
Broader concept
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https://data.arxiuvalencia.eu/vocabulary/c_d8ffd44b
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