art deco

Apologies for an extremely late post-been madly catching up with all the work I have missed!!!

Week 5…a long, very long time ago…6 weeks ago to be precise! Art Deco was the topic of the lecture, again with Richard Carr. Looking back at Art Nouveau, Art Deco seems to be the total opposite. It is a predominant decorative art style of the 1920s and 1930s, characterized by precise and boldly delineated geometric shapes and strong colours. Such style was used most notably in household objects and architecture.

Lines, lines still seem intriguingly important. I suppose lines make a statement, like when you want to make a title stand out from a block of text you would underline it. Maybe Art Deco was a style that was trying to make a statement in the less obvious ways. Moving from free flowing Art Nouveau to bold and colourful Art Deco that hits you right in the face-how can a human eye possibly overlook it. I guess that it has gone to such and era where people are more daring and experimental. They want to try new things, as everyone would. They want to make design more “innovative.”

Question: how can you make design more innovative?

Answer: Innovation is within us all, it just depends whether you let it out and be daring to see whether it will succeed or not. It is like re-inventing a type of style from an old existing one. Hence if you look closely at Art Nouveau and Art Deco, I’m sure you see the two connects.

Art Deco is not new, maybe in most people’s eyes but don’t you think that all styles of design actually existed all along. If you look around you, where you are sitting now, have a wee browse of the area-can you see more than one style?