Art Deco

Art deco is a art movement that comes in the form architect, jewelry, furniture and many more.

You can tell somethings art deco by the symmetrical shapes.

Art deco is the opposite of art nouvaeu, where everything is curly and curvy lining.

A good example of Art deco in the form of architect is Rockefeller Center in new york.


The straight and square like shapes and likey symmetrical shape is this main difference between art deco and art nouveau.
Battersea power station is an example of art deco in the capital along with the art deco exhibition in the V & A containing objects of art deco from bookbinding to works on paper.

Binding for Le l�gende de Saint Julien l'hospitalier, written by Gustave Flaubert (published by Eragny Press, 1900) Year: 1926 I got this image from: http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1157_art_deco/about/objectsdbase/object.php?objectid=CT74530
Nord Express', poster Year: 1927
I got this image from : http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1157_art_deco/about/objectsdbase/object.php?objectid=CT38233

Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau

I got this image from: http://5preciousthings.blogspot.com/2008/08/illustration.html
The Peacocks Skirt by Aubrey Beardsley (1894).

This piece of art nouveau comes from the illustration's of the book "The Peacocks Skirt"

The oval and flowery detail is what gives it the nouveau feel. Being line drawings Aubrey would of taken lots of time to do each single detail. The way in which the bottom of the clothing is oval, unlike normal clothing along with the very fine detail creating shapes puts this image under the movement of Art nouveau.
The style of art nouveau is curvy lines, flowers, leave, roots ect furniture, architecture and jewelery has been influenced by Art nouveau, for example Charles Rennie Mackintosh made furniture influenced by art nouveau.
The Chair - Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
I got this image from : http://flann4.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/three-design-movements-1-arts-and-crafts/
Nothing like a normal chair, he thought outside of the box and made the back of the chair longer then normal and made the view points oval shapes giving the chair overall a oval look. He also went on the great a whole room like this.


I got this image from: http://www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk/rennie_mackintosh_architect.htm

Artist Influenced by african culture

This mask was used for a ceremony in the 19th century. Just from this mask you can see how artist where influenced by African culture.
An example is "The Young Ladies of Avignon" by Picasso the painting is clearly influenced by this mask as it have similar resemblance to the women on the far right. I got these images from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasso%27s_African_Period
Pablo Picasso had a 2 year African culture influence phase where the majority of his work was base and inspired by African culture.
A contemporary artist who goes by the name of "Kehinde Wiley" has been influence by African culture, he is known for turning art from history into contemporary African paintings.
This is Ice T posing as napolen.
Wiley uses African American men in his portraits of manly famous people, to create his African paintings

Impressionism

Impressionism is created through colours and paint brush strokes to create the light, Impressionism is different to other paintings as the artists want to show their view of something rather than whats really there. You will also find that most impressionism artists paints are more like photography taken from a camera for example:
la promenade monet By Claude Monet
This painting looks as if Claude Monet bent down below the women and took a picture, the way the painting is in motion looks as if its a desistive moment photograph.
I got this image from: http://www.artquotes.net/masters/monet/la-promenade.htm

Another artist thats paintings look like images and to prove that impressionium is all about the painters perception on the object is "Gustave Caillebotte."


La place de l'europe By Guatave caillebotte.
This painting shows that Guatave caillebotte painted his own view of the object, however he could have just painted the surrowings leaving out the people.
The brush strokes and the way he showed light and reflection all comes together to make the painted more real.
I got this image from: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gustave_Caillebotte_-_La_Place_de_l%27Europe,_temps_de_pluie.jpg

Post impressionism


Post impressionism followed impressionism.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is a post impressionism painter he was one of the greatest of his time.

he set now records for auctions with his painting "La blanchisseuse"