ARKIVIA BOOK ARTDECO STYLE TEXTURES 1
From ART & CRAFTS to LIBERTY, from LIBERTY to ART DECO
Change through mutation, change through breaking.
IMPRESSIONISM and the VICTORIAN DECORATIVISM expressed in large part by ARTS & CRAFTS are two faces of the same need: to change the vision of the stereotype of realism. The first fracturing every detail with pure visual sensation, the second by retracing every detail in a schematic way, closer to the possibilities of creating industrial processes and productions.
They seem to be antipodal but are the simplest answers that both PAINTING and DESIGN give to the same problem and the will to change: to conquer full freedom away from the schemes of the past. These two starting points mark the further development of each of the two disciplines, with the same sentiment and the same search to free themselves from the classic schemes and to find a freedom of expression never known before. Painting proceeds through many "...ISMS" and many incredible figurative hypotheses while design finds the syntheses of nature closer to production needs, embracing geometry and abandoning naturalism: first by ordering into rigid patterns the natural multiplicity and this is ARTS & CRAFTS.Then, channelling the naturalistic development in curved, soft and eye-pleasing forms, the design becomes ART NOUVEAU.Finally, geometry takes over, frees itself from naturalism and produces simpler and more elegant forms without the need to be similar to nature while following the same precepts of order, symmetry, regularity, summarizing the too many naturalistic details geometric syntheses. Design becomes ART DECO' and develops over a period of time from 1920 to 1940.It is characterized by the extreme geometric synthesis, refined and elegant. References to nature are rare and episodic but always tasteful.
The decoration has become modern, curved lines intertwine with rectangular planes and lines in an interlacing that stands out more in architecture and the realization of design objects.
In the end, this style was shattered by the austerity of World War II and an era of beauty and modernity in equilibrium between mind and heart was ended.
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