Representative Countries of Art Deco Movement

France as the birthplace of the Art Deco movement, the 20s and 30s in France to form the peak, before the outbreak of World War II began to weaken the unique social background of France, France as one of Europe's important art centers, subject to the traditional factors of the constraints of the strong, and then there is the wealth of the colonial plunder. Reflecting the characteristics of French design - non-democratization of the powerful and elitist, bourgeois, and democratization of the political art of the opposite, forming a peculiarly stark contrast, the French decorative arts movement involved a very wide range of aspects, including furniture and interior design, ceramics. Lacquerware, glassware, metalwork, jewelry and fashion accessories, paintings, posters, and fashion illustrations. In terms of furniture and interior design, furniture at this time was influenced by two factors, resulting in different styles, one is more oriental and eccentric forms, the other is about the emergence of the 1930s, influenced by modernism, focusing on the application of new materials. The pursuit of simplicity and concise in the specific design form, but not like the Bauhaus as the representative of the realism of the art style as a complete abandonment of decorative, in the design of furniture decoration, in addition to the frequent use of expensive materials for the main body, but also often use bronze, ivory, grinding lacquer, and other means of treatment of furniture to enhance the degree of luxury furniture, in the interior design in favor of the use of luxury and expensive materials, furniture modeling Exaggeration, deformation, the use of textiles to create luxury, colorful decorations, and even the Oriental mood of the art introduced into the interior design, the designer's inspiration whether from the ancient Orient, or from the modernist design and art style, most of the use of new materials, new technology to create a new form. Embodies a new design aesthetic ideas, giving people a new feeling. In the design of ceramic ware French ceramic ware decorative arts style is expressed in the decorative patterns, mainly figures and strong geometric patterns as decorative features, ceramic modeling by the ancient Egyptian artifacts modeling as well as the Middle East and the Far East classical civilization, while the oil color from the Chinese porcelain to get inspiration, especially China's Song belt of porcelain to learn to imitate. Lacquer was used in decorative design, and the fascination with oriental art sparked by the Art Nouveau movement also influenced the Art Deco movement. Designers used lacquer to design screens, doors, furniture and other decorative elements, and the delicate and smooth effect produced by grinding lacquer was very much in line with the design and art concepts pursued by the Art Deco Movement, and lacquer was used as decoration in interior design. Lacquer decorative patterns are rich, fine, using Egyptian, Japanese or classical art techniques to deal with, showing a strong oriental style, expressed in the design of glassware, glass is also the Art Deco style designers love the means of expression, the use of glassware to create a complex and varied artistic expression of the effect of absorbing art from the Egyptian, Japanese, Chinese and other oriental art and the influence of classical art, French Art Nouveau movement. The design content was wide-ranging, including perfume bottles, lamps, jewelry, etc., with brilliant colors and chic shapes, and the craftsmanship and artistic level reached a fairly high level. In painting and graphic design, she has made great achievements, and her painting is represented by a Polish-born female painter, Tamar La. Tamar La. Tamar La. This Lanka, between 1924 - 1939 a large number of works in a unique style, the background is a modern environment, sharp edges of the German colors, decorative effects unique, structure, picture gorgeous and colorful, affecting many painters at the time of the creation of the German Art Deco movement period of the German graphic design, is the post-three-dimensional attention to the graphic modernism. Pictorial modernism, advocating cubism, mainly straight lines, refined composition, simple colors, special structure, the emergence of asymmetrical composition. And the use of photo collage, virtual three-dimensional sense of form shaping, Cassandra can be called the French art deco movement graphic design de titan, with other art deco movement designers like the influence of cubism de, will be combined with graphics and text as a whole, is a symbol of the morning cubism graphic style of the most outstanding example of its works known as classic.

Since the 1920s, the United States has been a strong, economically developed country, with a large number of affluent middle-class consumer groups, who urgently need a variety of consumer goods to meet their material needs and the psychological need for luxury, the United States is culturally bound by cultural traditions less influence on the new art and design styles are more receptive. Art Deco style in this material consumption conditions and cultural psychology to obtain sufficient development Then to Sullivan as the representative of the "Chicago School" on the construction of the importance of advocating, prompting the development of the U.S. construction industry, the development of Art Deco style in New York is the decorative motifs and the comprehensive application of new materials. The achievements of the American Art Deco movement are also reflected in the architecture and related interior design, furniture design and so on. The American Art Deco style has obvious traces of ancient Egyptian, Chinese, Persian, and especially Mayan cultures, mainly represented by the New York Telephone Company Building and the Kressler Building. The New York Telephone Building was built by Mackenzie Woolley. Woolley. Gomlin, the building is a mixture of Victorian and Renaissance decorative elements, combined with some of the modernist treatment, the decorative effect is very strong. The most characteristic of the Art Deco movement, the modernist structural methods and "Art Deco movement" decorative techniques is a combination of Kreisler Building, the main part of the functionalism, modernism, straight-line modeling, top streamlined modeling and brilliant decorative motifs, which is the United States "Art Deco movement" style architectural techniques focused on the "Art Deco movement" style. This is the American "Art Deco movement" style of architectural techniques of the concentrated manifestation. To the later by William Lambert designed the Empire State Building and the Rocky Mountain House. Lambert designed the Empire State Building and the Rockefeller Building, both the exterior and interior of the building, there are strong Art Deco style features, the use of metal as a decorative material, the use of angles, lacquer, murals and other decorative techniques; and the use of colorful colors to depict. To the mid-20th century after the 1920s, some designers on the West Coast of the United States began to explore the improved "Art Deco" style suitable for the local conditions of the region, which in turn formed two types of buildings: one is the "curvilinear modernism", the other is the "streamlined modernism", the other is the "streamlined modernism". The other was "Streamline Modernism". Florida also appeared more simple shape, geometric patterns, romantic and soft colors, tend to pink, light blue, milk yellow, etc., more suitable for people's psychological feelings. 1929, the United States entered an unprecedented economic crisis, the community was plunged into a great fear and emptiness, the formation of the United States along with the development of the film industry "Hollywood" style, architectural pursuit of camping, the "Hollywood" style. The "Hollywood style", the architectural pursuit of building a "dream palace", mainly reflected in the construction of the cinema, the cinema will be a large number of imaginative components into it, and absorbed the Oriental style, the pursuit of an exotic feeling, the construction of similar to the Egyptian, Chinese Theater Temple building. Art Deco movement expressed in the combination of Eastern and Western art styles, the combination of human feelings and mechanical beauty and other connotations, in the 1980s, re-emerged by the postmodernist designers.