1920s &1930s
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The document discusses the characteristics and basic elements of Art Deco, an artistic and design style that was popular in Western Europe and the United States in the 1920s-1930s. Key features included simple geometric shapes, an emphasis on decorative elements, and celebrating modern lifestyles, with a focus on symmetry, flatness, geometry, and streamlined curves. Several graphic design organizations were also founded in the US during the 1920s.
1920s &1930s
- 1. Germany/France/ Great Britian and USA 1920s & 1930s
- 17. Characteristics of Art Deco • Simple geometric shapes • Lack of a political directive • More emphasis on decorative elements • Celebrates glamour • Celebrates affluent modern lifestyles
- 28. Basic Elements of Art Deco Simplicity Symmetry Planarity – (flat, two-dimensional) Geometry Machine aesthetic Reductive geometric abstraction
- 37. Streamlining Stylistic element of Art Deco that Uses clean sweeping curves
- 90. 1920s Organizations founded in US • The Art Director’s Club • Society of Typographic Artists in Chicago • American Institute of Graphic Arts
Editor's Notes
- #3: World War I
- #4: After World War I, 1920
- #5: 1942
- #6: after 1945
- #19: Cubism
- #20: Picasso, 1912Cubism
- #21: Picasso, Ma Jolie, 1911 Cubism
- #22: Futurism
- #23: Futurism
- #24: Futurism
- #25: Vortisism
- #26: Vortisism
- #27: Purism
- #34: Club car advertisement
- #35: Dubonnet advertisement
- #36: Jean Carlu
- #38: Streamlining
- #39: Streamlining
- #43: Bifur designed by Cassandre
- #44: Designed by Cassandre0
- #45: Broadway type designed by Morris Fuller Benton, American Type Founders
- #46: Broadway type
- #47: Cassandre designed Peignot, 1937
- #61: Johnston Sans, by Edward Johnston.
- #90: Leo Marfurt
- #92: Cubism, Futurism, Purism
- #94: Bauhaus, DeStjll,DaDa