Sunday, March 1, 2015

Spring Challenge - Art Deco

Spring Challenge

Art Deco


The next challenge is to make a quilt influenced by Art Deco.

The term Art Deco refers to a style that spanned the boom of the roaring 1920s and the bust of the Depression-ridden 1930s. It affected all forms of design, from the fine and decorative arts to fashion, film, photography, transport and product design. The name Art Deco was taken from Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratives et Industrials Modernes held in Paris in 1925.

I have a book on Art Deco Textiles which mentions...
Techniques: Cubism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Futurism, Modernism, Pochoir
Artists: Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Derain, Dufy, Kokoschka, Kandinsky, Beckmann, Nolde, Boccioni, Severini, Balla, Paul Iribe, Seguy, Benedictus, George Barbier, Clarice Cliff

Some interesting information is available on the Victoria & Albert Museum website at V&A - Art Deco


There is a lot of inspiration to be found on the web, just google ‘art deco’ or any of the other key words I have mentioned and check out all the images. I have inserted a selection into this post.
 Cubism, Charles Braque
Textile designs by Eugene Seguy

Expressionism, Franz Marc

Fauvism, Andre Derain
Futurism Fortunato Depero

Pochoir

Clarice Cliff



Chrysler building New York
The Queen Mary




4 comments:

  1. This will be interesting it spans so many different art movements, looking forward to seeing how everyone interprets this challenge

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  2. I really like this theme, so many possibilities and so much to ponder about. Perhaps that makes it a great challenge!

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  3. You have given us a lot of options with your images from different aspects of art deco. Thanks for your challenge.

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  4. You have given us a lot of options with your images from different aspects of art deco. Thanks for your challenge.

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