Art Deco

Explore Art Deco by tracing its connections to Rococo and Art Nouveau, patterns, and study ceramics, vases, tableware, fashion, flappers, ocean liners, cars, and buildings with a sketchbook.

Explore Art Deco as a global design movement blending modern styles with craftsmanship and luxury, tracing Paris 1925 origins, geometric forms, and its widespread influence.

Explore rococo as a time period, not just a style, with opulence, curves, and shells. Trace 18th-century beginnings in France, spread across Europe, and link to Baroque and revolution.

Explore Art Nouveau, a global, ornamental style of 1890–1910 defined by long sinuous lines inspired by nature. Apply its influence to architecture, interior design, jewelry, glass, and posters.

Explore the birth of art deco at the 1925 Paris exposition, and its interwar rise across architecture, interior decoration, furniture, glass, and decorative arts.

Explore Art Deco vases, ceramics, and tableware through geometric design, chevrons, and sun motifs, with conical cups and triangular handles showcasing the era's bold, nonobjective geometry.

Explore how Art Deco ocean liners, like the Queen Mary, fuse bold color and geometry with foreshortened views to celebrate luxury dining rooms and grand interiors.

Explore art deco cars by Bugatti and Delahaye, featuring teardrop silhouettes and sweeping fenders, with examples like Bugatti Type 35 Tecla and Type 57 Atlantic.

Survey Art Deco fashion and Vogue cover art by George Barbier, Erte, and Beardsley; highlight Art Nouveau influence, geometric patterns, and the flapper silhouette.

Examine how 1920s flappers embodied the jazz age with short skirts and bobbed hair, signaling bold social rebellion. Connect the Charleston, speakeasies, and the rise of the Art Deco movement.

Explore how The Great Gatsby embodies art deco in the Jazz Age on Long Island, through Jay Gatsby's obsession with Daisy Buchanan. The lecture notes the poster's geometrization of form.

Explore Art Deco glass, from Lalique masterpieces and glass sculptures to stained glass lamps, including horses, wind motifs, and Tiffany designs, reflecting the era's streamlined cubist beauty.

Explore Art Deco architecture through iconic buildings like the San Diego County Administration Center and the Chrysler Building, highlighting geometric forms and the vertical and horizontal mass contrast.

Explore art deco artists such as Tamara de Lempicka, Demetre Chiparus, and Louis Comfort Tiffany, contrasting cubist-inspired painting and stained glass with Mucha's art nouveau elegance and bronze sculptures.