Art Deco Artists
Art Deco is an art movement of the 1920s and 1930s involving a mix of modern decorative art styles and 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.
The name came from the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs Industriels et Modernes, held in Paris, which celebrated living in the modern world. The growing impact of the machine is often seen in repeating and overlapping images from 1925; and in the 1930s in streamlined forms derived from the principles 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.
Rene Lalique, 1860-1945 French Glassmaker
Leon Bakst, 1866-1924 Russian Designer/Illustrator
Josef Hoffmann, 1870-1956 Austrian Architect/Designer
Jean Dunand, 1877-1942 Swiss Designer
Eileen Gray, 1879-1976 Irish Designer
Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann, 1879-1933 French Designer
Raymond Hood, 1881-1934 American Architect
Jean Dupas, 1882-1964 French Designer
William Van Alen, 1883-1954 American Architect
Paul Manship, 1886-1966 American Sculptor
Louis Icart, 1888-1950 French Painter/Illustrator
C. Paul Jennewein, 1890-1978 German/American Sculptor
Erte, 1892-1990 Russian/French Painter/Designer
Tamara de Lempicka, 1898-1980 Polish/American Painter
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