ART NOUVEAU &

ART DECO

Language and culture II - Prof.: Patricia Guzmán Alumnos: Guevara Emanuel, Lopez Yesica y Raverta Tedoldi Marcela

INTRODUCTION TO ART NOUVEAU

Period: 1890 to the WWI

Arising against neoclassicism

Industrial Revolution, Arts and Crafts Movement

Variety of materials

HISTORY OF ART NOUVEAU

"La Maison de l'Art Nouveau“, Siegfried Bing

Spread all over the world

Different names in different countries

1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris

EVOLUTION OF ART NOUVEAU

English Arts and Crafts Movement

Japonism, Synthetism and CloisonnismRomanticism, Pre-Raphaelites and Symbolists“Wren's City Churches”, Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo

EXPONENTS OF ART NOUVEAU

"Wren's City Churches“ (1883)Arthur Heygate MackmurdoBritish architectBorn: December 12, 1851 in London, EnglandDied: March 15, 1942 in Wickham Bishops, England

EXPONENTS OF ART NOUVEAU

Hotel Tassel (1893-4)Artist: Victor HortaBelgian architectBorn: Gent 1861 Died: Brüssel 1947

EXPONENTS OF ART NOUVEAU

The Museum of Applied Arts (1893-96)Artist: Odon Lechner and Gyula Partos

La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge (1891)

Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Hope II (1907-08)

Artist: Gustav Klimt

DEFINITION OF ART NOUVEAU

New philosophy

Apply artistic designs to everyday objects

It sought a new graphic design language

TYPES OF DESIGNS

Employed flat decorative patterns

Leaf and trendy motifs

Organic forms, mostly curvaceous in shape

Birds, flowers and curved bodies of women

APPLICATIONS OF ART NOUVEAU

Glassware, jewellery, ceramics, architecture

Textiles, household silver, domestic utensils & cigarette cases

Drawing, poster art, painting and book illustration

Architecture and interior design

LEGACY & INFLUENCE OF ART NOUVEAU

“Beautify” everything around Vs. mass-production

Bridge between Neoclassism and modernism

ART DECO

INTRODUCTION TO ART DECO

Influential Visual art design style

Embrace all types of art

Luxury style

After depression, elegant style

ORIGINS OF ART DECO

Derives from “the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs Industriels et Modernes”

HISTORY OF ART DECO

Mostly influenced by: cubism, constructivism, futurism and art nouveau

No philosophical basis

Great expansion ’20s, ’30s, up to the WWII.

Decline in popularity late 30s and early 40s

Resurgence in the 60s and in the 80s

CHARACTERISTICS OF ART DECO

Scientific progress, commerce and technology

Modern, opulent style

Useful for cinemas, ocean liners and train stations

Mathematical geometric shapes:trapezoidal zigzagged and triangular shapes

MATERIALS USED IN ART DECO

Aluminium, stainless steel, plastics, lacquer, inlaid wood

Art Nouveau materials: moulded glass, horn and ivory

Exotic items: shark-skin, and zebra-skin

APPLICATIONS OF ART DECO

Architecture, Interior design, Furniture

Poster art

Jewellery

Textiles, Fashion and industrial design

Visual arts: paintings and graphics

ART DECO AROUND THE WORLD

The Chrysler Building (New York)

ART DECO AROUND THE WORLD

The Rockefeller Center

ART DECO AROUND THE WORLD

Kavanagh building (Buenos Aires-Argentina)

ART DECO AROUND THE WORLD

“Angel of death” (Azul-Argentina)

ART DECO AROUND THE WORLD

Ministry of Justice (Santiago-Chile)

ART DECO PAINTERS

René Buthaud (1886-1986)

ART DECO PAINTERS

Raphael Delorme (1885-1962)