Friday, March 9, 2012

draft: The 20's

Final Draft

1920 a color age, an age where women can have a toke and feel

rebellious. Its is an age where architecture flipped its lens and took a whole

new design. Cars, the period revolutionized its meaning and the industry. A

whole new age in art had evolved, the Roaring Twenties.

Art Deco was a big design movement in art history. It influenced

manyarchitects, engineers, designers, etc. the moment originated from

Belgium and then later western Europe and the us adapted the moment. Art

Deco was based off on a system where geometric, clean ziggurat shapes,

etc. This helped the design of the Chrysler building. According

to,http://www.slideshare.net/clouclou60/arts-in-the-roaring-twenties, “One of

the most remarkable building featuring this style..” Art Deco went above and

beyond the design of repetition and redundancy approach. It changed the

industry in a way where you can fit more “practical furniture” in compact

rooms. It had exceeded its boundaries in industrial design. The classic

elegant appeal made an outstanding landmark in design history.

This period affected painters causing a trend, surrealism. The most

famous painters of that time where; Picasso, Klee, and Miro. Surrealism is

based on catching the viewers off guard. The ambiguity and how direct the

style, truly sets off a spark.

The age of women’s status became a standard. The women that

rebelled against the typical Victorian design, were called flappers. The word

migrated from England. It obtained its meaning from an old word, prostitute.

The word flap got its name cause of the women at that time had their hair

flapped back. The style they had was more flamboyant in a more sexual

appeal approach. Aside from their crude humor they were sought out after

their style. They were influenced with French fashion elements, for example

the works of Coco Chanel

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