art Deco - An art movement involving a
mix of modern decorative art styles, largely of the 1920s and 1930s,
whose main characteristics were derived from various avant-garde painting styles of the early twentieth
century. Art deco works exhibit aspects of Cubism, Russian Constructivism and Italian Futurism -- with abstraction, distortion, and simplification, particularly geometric shapes and highly intense colors -- celebrating
the rise of commerce, technology, and speed and in streamlined forms
of aerodynamics. .
It was popularly considered to be an elegant style of cool
sophistication in architecture and applied arts which range from luxurious objects made from
exotic material to mass produced, streamlined items
available to a growing middle class.
Architecture- The art of designing and constructing buildings (structures), and other environmental
features. The jargon of architecture is what architects and designers
archly call "talkitecture" or "archispeak." Western periods of architectural history
generally parallel those of the other arts: classical, Gothic, Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Modernism, and Postmodernism among them
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http://www.decopix.com/
http://www.adsw.org/resource/websites/About_Art_Deco/
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/a/artdeco.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Deco#Overview
http://www.decopix.com/New%20Site/Pages/Directory%20Pages/Decopix_Directory_NEW.html
http://www.art-deco.com/general.html