| In the field of modern art, art deco plays a large and | | | | deco includes furniture, metalwork, clocks, glasswork |
| impressively lavish role. The strong colors and | | | | and screens as well as paintings and other fine art |
| sweeping curves lend art deco the trademark | | | | types of pieces. |
| boldness that expressed much of the progress and | | | | The art deco style is known for its lavishness and |
| modern advances of the twentieth century. Art | | | | epicurean flairs that are attributed to the austerity of |
| auctions around the world still move many art deco | | | | culture brought about by World War I. Strong |
| pieces of various kinds. If you're interested in | | | | patterns and bold colors and shapes were used, as |
| collecting art deco, there are many art auctions both | | | | were many particular motifs used universally. |
| online and off that deal primarily in art deco. | | | | For example, the sunburst motif was used in |
| In the twentieth century the decorative arts | | | | everything from the Radio City Music Hall auditorium, |
| converged in what is known as the art deco | | | | images of ladies' shoes, the spire of the Chrysler |
| movement, which grew to influence architecture, | | | | Building and several other pieces of art, architecture |
| fashion, the visual arts as well as design. The term | | | | and design. Other ubiquitous motifs found in art deco |
| 'art deco' was derived from a World's Fair held in | | | | were stepped forms, the zigzag, chevron patterns |
| Paris, France, called the Exposition Internationale des | | | | and sweeping curves. |
| Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes in the year | | | | In the West, art deco lost its steam around the |
| 1925. | | | | Second World War, but continued to be used all the |
| Though the movement and term comes from the | | | | way into the 1960s in colonial countries such as India, |
| Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et | | | | where it served as a gateway to Modernism. Then in |
| Industriels Modernes, the term was not widely used | | | | the 1980s art deco made a comeback in graphic |
| until the late 1960s. Especially pre- World War I | | | | design. Art deco's association with 1930s film noir led |
| Europe influenced the art deco movement, though | | | | to its use in both fashion and jewelry ads. |
| many cultures influenced and were influenced by this | | | | Today art deco is revered by many and dismissed as |
| art movement. Much of the world was experiencing | | | | old news and overly gaudy by others. Though it |
| similar shifts in modern technological advances. | | | | undoubtedly played a major role in art history, as |
| For the most part, the art deco movement was | | | | with most art, individual taste frames the individual's |
| brought about and inspired by the rapid advances of | | | | interpretation and like or dislike of art deco styles. |
| technological and social facets of the early twentieth | | | | Art deco is one of the most well known art |
| century. As culture responded to these increasingly | | | | movements. This is mostly due to its wide base of |
| changing times, the art deco movement was an | | | | influences and influenced art forms and cultures. Since |
| outgrowth of these modern phenomena. | | | | much of the world was experiencing many of the |
| Art deco is considered generally to be an eclectic | | | | same advances in technology and mass production, |
| type of decorative modernism that was influenced | | | | many of the same ideas and symbols were relevant |
| by a variety of artists and particular art forms. Art | | | | in various parts of the world. |