Shaiful Amin
BA Game Designs
Module : DD1000 -Historical Contextual Studies
Lecture : Benjamin Hills
Art Deco - Historical Essay
Introduction
Art Deco is
mixed of artistic and design which was founded in Paris 1920s. It is an
interesting theme and it has expanded throughout the international during World
War II. It eventually connected all the aspects of style, influencing the
appearance such as industrial design, visual arts and films. Also Art deco does
understand the social, economic, political and its culture that helped shape
and variant of the art movement into what it become.
Culture and Media
Art
Deco has its own artistic, creative and spreading influences of design. One of the example artists is David Ault who
has made D.C posters with Art Deco style as the picture is shown. 
Art Deco History
Art Deco is a combination artistic and
design with multitude form. The term Art Deco was coined in 1968 when Interest
in sophistication revived was obtained from Exposition Internationale Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes.
“This
history changing gathering was dedicated to the display of modern decorative
arts. The exhibition brought together thousands of designs from all over Europe
and beyond. With over 15 million visitors, it marked the high point of the
first phase of Art Deco"
The
meaning of this is that the Art deco was gathering the resources in order to
display their own cultural of decorative arts. Throughout there it had become
popular and eye catching. Modern art style has spread throughout the Europe and
different region.
Architectural with Art
Deco Movement
Daily Express Building
This is Daily Express Building, it is located Great Ancoata street,
Manchester. This building has corners are curved and its inspiration from the
1930s modern movement. The design and its features have typical of Art deco
Architectural style. This photo was
taken by a photographer ( Alan Howarth).
Chrysler Building
This Picture
is a Chrysler Building which is an Art Deco style skyscraper in New York City.
The building is constructed with a steel of frame and metal cladding with
masonry. The corners of 61st floor are graced with 4 eagles which
gives an insignia to the cultural. Chrysler Building contains 3,862 windows
with its facade and 4 banks of 8 elevators designed by Otis Elevator Corportation.
Chrysler
building is alluding and has its references. For e.g. The Spider-man animated series (1994)
some of the episode shows Chrysler as it grabs audience attention. It’s more of
an eye catching where people to understand its language and concept.
Art Deco Sculpture
The Art Deco
Sculpture is visual of arts that show three dimensions and originally used
carving materials. Art Deco continues to
be more popular for sculptures and interior figurines. The purpose of it process
is tend to display background theme, athleticism with stylized figures to draw
on the Art Deco movement.
Angelique
It is a cold
painted bronze figure of nude dancing with her shawl made by Josef Leorenzl
from 1982 – 1950. The theme does
represent of an Art Deco antiques.
A Austrian
sculptor Josef Leorenzl was born 1892 in Vienna one of the nine states of
Austria. Later on he became one of the most famous sculptors in period of Art
Deco. Also The Art Deco sculptor was working at foundry at the Vienna of
Arsenal. Not only Josef was good art sculptor but also a talented ceramist. He
has always pictured elegant poses and signed with his sculptures.
Conclusion
Overall we
find Art Deco movement intriguing because the movement prominence which stands
and surrounds the artistic and design. It has popularize around its media and
commercial product by representing its image and cultural. This got me
interested is that Art Deco has the art style with modernization and its
elegance.
APA Reference
References
1.)
Alber,
Ronald, John S. Adams and Peter Gould. Spatial Organization.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1971.
2.) Bayer, Patrica. Art Deco Source
Book. Oxford: Phaidon Press limited. 1988
3.)
Delware
Department of Transportation. Delware Historic Bridge and Survey Evaluation.
Project 87-070-02
4.)
Dwyer
Donald Harris. “Modernistic Architecture, America’s Contribution to Art Deco.
5.)
David
Ault. Art Deco DC Superheroes Styles. Organization: Monkey Minion press.
