Art Deco Painting

by Lucie-Smith, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780714835761
• ISBN10: 0714835765
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-08-29
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

The Art Deco style was all pervasive during the 1920s and 1930s affecting theecorative arts, fine arts and fashion. This text specifically examines Arteco painting and defines it as a genre. The author analyzes theharacteristics of the style, period and history of the movement, explainingts relationship to Classicism, the Symbolists, the Precisionists,hotography and Cubism. It discusses the frequent use of classical imagery,he importance of society portraiture, the portrayal of the "demi-monde" andhe lure of decorative exoticism. French, American, Russian, British andtalian Art Deco painters, who are all represented here, were attracted asuch to the skyscraper and the automobile as they were to the classical nude.he result was a remarkable mix of traditional and modern: the sleek,eductive portraits by the Polish emigre Tamara de Lempicka, the fantasticallassical allegories of Jean Dupas, the elegant high-style compositions ofustralia by Charles Meere and the evocative "real-life" scenes of Glynhilpot.

Author Biography

Edward Lucie-Smith is well known as a critic, broadcaster and writer on art. He is the author of Art Today, also published by Phaidon.