{"id":11092,"date":"2023-12-14T16:30:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T15:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.energiedescouleurs.com\/2023\/12\/14\/the-art-deco\/"},"modified":"2023-12-14T16:30:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T15:30:42","slug":"the-art-deco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energiedescouleurs.com\/en\/2023\/12\/14\/the-art-deco\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art Deco"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1539515690511{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 80px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Art Deco – Art in motion since 1910″ font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:40px|text_align:center|line_height:1.4em” text_resize=”yes” text_minimum=”34″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” hide_md=”cesis_hidden-md” hide_sm=”cesis_hidden-sm”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1539772610005{padding-left: 120px !important;}” offset=”vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_custom_heading text=”Arts d\u00e9co is the French abbreviation for "decorative art".” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:30px|text_align:left|line_height:40px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]This movement is the most important form of artistic expression between the two world wars at the beginning of the 20st century.<\/p>\n

Named after an exhibition of modern decorative and industrial arts held in Paris in 1925, it was renamed in 1966. The Bauhaus influenced the architectural proposals of the period. The arts of the time had different names: Mouvement Moderne, Modern Style, Art Moderne, Jugendstil Zigzag, Arts and Crafts in England.[\/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”An International Art Movement” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:30px|text_align:left|line_height:40px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Vienna is the cradle of Art Deco and Paris is its centre, but the art form was a huge success from South Africa to India and China, via Japan, Australia and New Zealand, and was particularly popular in the United States.[\/vc_column_text][cesis_gallery type=”carousel” images=”10138,10136,10145,10117,10186″ img_size=”medium” col=”5″ padding=”10″][vc_empty_space][vc_custom_heading text=”Drawing on the Past to Build the Future” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:30px|text_align:left|line_height:40px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Art Deco drew on elements from other artistic movements: the geometry of Cubism, the bold colours of Fauvism and the technical forms of Constructivism and Futurism.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”A universal art form” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|line_height:40px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Artists paid more and more attention to wallpaper, carpets, graphics and illustrations. It was more a question of design than painting. Exotic materials from the colonies were used, such as wood, furs and ivory.<\/p>\n

The architecture of this period is characterised by the search for the functionality of the home, the purity of lines with a return to straightness and orthogonality, the simplification of forms, maximum luminosity, decorative economy to the point of elimination and, if there is any decoration, it is stylised, simplified, geometric and based on contrasts.
\n\u2192 Chromatic contrasts, between strong colours.
\n\u2192 Contrast between rough areas, such as rough plaster, and very smooth areas.
\n\u2192 And contrasts between light absorbing and reflecting materials like metal and polished marble.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”Raw materials, stylized lines” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|line_height:40px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Art Deco borrowed regional elements such as Native American and Ancient Egyptian motifs. These were stylised, simplified and geometric. The shapes had to be solid, simple and elegant. They had to have a certain abstraction.<\/p>\n

From 1930 onwards, this movement advocated the development of modern architecture using the new materials of the time: reinforced concrete, glass and steel, and new construction methods: frame construction and glass facades. The aim is to promote architecture that is rational and functional, but also architecture that responds to the aspirations and needs of the people who live there – ‘humanist’ architecture, so to speak. This movement inspired French architects in particular, leading them to work on social housing with an economy of form and materials.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][cesis_gallery type=”carousel” images=”10132,10130,10126,10128,10124″ img_size=”medium” col=”5″ padding=”10″][vc_empty_space][vc_custom_heading text=”Art Deco and stained glass” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:30px|text_align:left|line_height:40px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Between 1920-1930\/1935, this was the Art Deco period, with Art Deco stained glass. But this was a time when stained glass was once again pushed back. In those years, light was expected, light was sought. However, they are still found in areas where they are widely used, particularly in Lorraine.<\/p>\n

Art Deco stained glass benefited from the extraordinary development of glass making techniques, which allowed the use of large rough or highly worked pieces. This was particularly true of textured glass, which gave stained glass a major boost during this period.<\/p>\n

The stained glass windows of the Art Deco period represent a complete break with the plastic language of Art Nouveau. The trend is towards abstraction or, at the very least, towards the geometric and stylised.
\n\u2192 The theme of nature is still there, but it’s re-examined through the filter of stylised, geometricised.
\n\u2192 The theme of progress is present. Progress that is supposed to bring a better life.
\n\u2192 Laminated glass is widely used.
\n\u2192 And these glasses have bold colours, or they’re white combined with greys or blacks.
\n\u2192 Little or no paint or glaze.<\/p>\n

This artistic movement is still very much in demand today. With its pure and stylish lines, it is a style that is timeless and timeless.[\/vc_column_text][cesis_gallery type=”carousel” images=”10140,10121,10152,10154″ img_size=”medium” col=”4″ padding=”10″][vc_empty_space][vc_custom_heading text=”Creation of the \u00c9nergie des Couleur for this artistic movement” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:30px|text_align:left|color:%2321cebd|line_height:40px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.energiedescouleurs.com%2Fen%2Frealisations%2Fgladky-art-deco-style-gladky-art-deco-style%2F|target:_blank|”][cesis_line_divider][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text font_color=”#8a048e”]To find out even more about Art Deco, click here!<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md”][vc_custom_heading text=”It is Sunday night and I find myself sitting in my usual location preparing to write the next post on Life of an Architect” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|line_height:1.5″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]It is Sunday night and I find myself sitting in my usual location preparing to write the next post on Life of an Architect \u2026 except I am experiencing a problem that is making this particular post difficult to write. It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t have anything to write about, it\u2019s that I have too much to write about, which I will confess is worse than having too little.[\/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Living In The Now Use It To Enrich Your Life” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:30px|text_align:left|line_height:40px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]It is Sunday night and I find myself sitting in my usual location preparing to write the next post on Life of an Architect \u2026 except I am experiencing a problem that is making this particular post difficult to write. It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t have anything to write about, it\u2019s that I have too much to write about, which I will confess is worse than having too little.<\/p>\n

I have been out of the office for almost two weeks \u2013 which rarely-to-never happens. I attended the American Institute of Architects National Convention in New York for a week and then immediately after I rolled into a week-long vacation in Maine. I\u2019ve never been to Maine before and since it was geographically convenient, it seemed like the right time to go. Also, it has been hot as Hades in Dallas lately and I wanted needed a break from the heat.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”69″ img_size=”full”][vc_custom_heading text=”Living In The Now Use It To Enrich Your Life” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:30px|text_align:left|line_height:40px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]I have been out of the office for almost two weeks \u2013 which rarely-to-never happens. I attended the American Institute of Architects National Convention in New York for a week and then immediately after I rolled into a week-long vacation in Maine. I\u2019ve never been to Maine before and since it was geographically convenient, it seemed like the right time to go. Also, it has been hot as Hades in Dallas lately and I wanted needed a break from the heat.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”Motivation In Life” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:22px|text_align:left|line_height:40px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]I have been out of the office for almost two weeks \u2013 which rarely-to-never happens. I attended the American Institute of Architects National Convention in New York.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”Motivation In Life” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:22px|text_align:left|line_height:40px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]I have been out of the office for almost two weeks \u2013 which rarely-to-never happens. I attended the American Institute of Architects National Convention in New York.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_single_image image=”70″ img_size=”full”][vc_custom_heading text=”Living In The Now Use It To Enrich Your Life” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:30px|text_align:left|line_height:40px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]It is Sunday night and I find myself sitting in my usual location preparing to write the next post on Life of an Architect \u2026 except I am experiencing a problem that is making this particular post difficult to write. It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t have anything to write about, it\u2019s that I have too much to write about, which I will confess is worse than having too little.<\/p>\n

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