Exam 3 Flashcards
What is the difference between George Braque and Picasso
George Braque focused more on landscapes
Picasso focused more on portraiture
George Braque
Left: Piano and Mandola
Middle: Nature Morte (The Pedestal Table)
Right: Man With a Guitar
Pablo Picasso
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
Pablo Picasso
Left: Head of a Woman
Right: Dan Mask from West Africa
Pablo Picasso
Left: Figure dans un Fauteuil
Middle: Girl with a Mandolin
Right: Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann
on display at the Paris Exhibition
Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann
Defenses Chair
Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann
Elephant Armchair
Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann
Gonse armchairs
Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann
Armchair
Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann
desk
Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann
Sun Bed
Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann
furniture sketches
Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann
Grand Salon of the Hotel d’un Collectionneur
Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann
Exposition in le Pavillion d’un Collectionneur
Dining Room
Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann
interior
Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann
bedroom drawing
What heavily influenced Art Deco?
Egypt and the tomb of King Tut
Who designed these?
What are these designs associated with?
Pierre Legrain
Egypt and finding of King Tut’s tomb
Who is the designer?
What are they associated with?
Pierre Legrain
Egypt and finding King Tut’s tomb
What is the Fauvism movement?
“The Wild Beast Movement”
A short-lived art movement
Vivid colors - sometimes applying paint straight from tubes
Inspired by post-impressionist artists
Simplified drawing style and fewer details
Complimentary colors that look “electric” together
Henri Matisse
Red Room (Harmony in Red)
Henri Matisse
The Dance
Paul Poiret
Important fashion designer
loose-fitting designs created specifically for an uncorseted, slim figure
Paul Poiret
Paul Poiret
“lampshade” tunic and “harem” trousers
Paul Poiret
Paul Poiret
Paul Poiret
fabric designs
Armand Rateau
French architect
furniture maker/designer
luxury materials for the socially elite
Armand Rateau
The Madrid bathroom of the Duchess of Alba
Armand Rateau
appartment of Jeanne Lanvin, Paris
Rene Jules Lalique
Rene Lalique Jewelry
Why was the Normandie important?
It was a “time capsul” of the French Art Deco movement
Normandie’s grand dining room
Rene Lalique glass
compared to hall of Mirrors at Versailles
Thomas Hart Benton
America Today mural
Had a Norman Rockwell - like look
Ideas of Murals
Colors are brighter and seems like you’re making a cartoon out of industrialization and it’s depicted in a much more positive light
A bit of propoganda to it as well
Art Deco was the advent of:
artists/designers working with large corporations like Kohler to design items for them
Chrysler Building
William Van Alen went broke making this building
American Art Deco
Chanin Building
Jacques Delamarre
use of Bas-relief: Egyptian technique of foreshortening a 3D object but still keeping it 3D on a flat surface or fairly flat surface.
Radio City Music Hall
Designed by Donald Deskey (read book on him)
Donald Deskey
Radio City Music Hall
Donald Deskey
interiors of Radio City Music Hall
private apartment for the RCMH manager
RCMH is a fine example of application of streamlining to a commercial interior
He was greatly impressed by the Paris fair that he started work as a designer and furniture designer, soon ranking as a leading exponent of American Art Deco.
Industrial Designers
Raymond Loewy
Norman Geddes
Walter Teague
Henry Dreyfuss
Difference between Art Nouveau and Art Deco
Art Nouveau: much more decorative, flowing, and floral.It featured naturalistic but stylised forms, often combined with shapes which were more geometric like parabolas, and semicircles.
Art Deco: sharp and based on straight lines and corners. Celebrated the dawn of the industrial age. The style adopted in Art Deco architecture was bold straight lines arranged symmetric like machines with equally bold colours unlike natural shades.
Johnson Wax Factory
Frank Lloyd Wright
Based on vehicular traffic as if we were evolving as a nation of mass transit
Uses pyrex as a way to bring light into the building. No real windows to the outside.
Like a lillypad structural system. It holds up pyrex to let the light in
It’s a self-contained and self referential building. You go into a lower entrance and into a bigger place
He designed every facet of it (Desk, table, chairs, etc.)
Raymond Loewry
Initially a graphic designer who got into architecture and became an industrial designer
Got into the streamline movement
Designed Exxon, Canada Dry, Post Office logos
Raymond Loewry
Raymond Loewry
Norman Bel Geddes
American theatrical and industrial designer who focused on aerodynamics
Norman Bel Geddes
hypothetical car designs
Bel Geddes
Bel Geddes
Bel Geddes
Henry Dreyfuss (born in NYC)
started out as a set designer - he designed over 250 sets
moved into industrial design.
Design consultant for Macy’s, Bell Telephone, AT&T, American Airlines, Polaroid, Hoover
Designed tractors and ag machinery for John Deere
Henry Dreyfuss
Henry Dreyfuss
Henry Dreyfuss
Redesign of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Hudson J-3
Some credit his design to the designs of the first bullet trains
Meant to look like it was in a perpetual state of motion
Henry Dreyfuss
Henry Dreyfuss
Interior, End Section-Diner
Henry Dreyfuss
Interior, Observation End Looking Forward
Henry Dreyfuss
Interior, Observation Lounge
Henry Dreyfuss
Designing for People, an autobiography
Walter Teague
American Industrial Designer, architect, illustrator, graphic designer, writer, entrepreneur
the “Dean of Industrial Design”
Designed by Walter Teague
Walter Teague
Walter Teague
Walter Teague
Texaco Service Station, 1940
Walter Teague’s take on rail cars. They inspired the ones in existence
Hollywood influenced America during the Depression by the set designs
Cedric Gibbons
He thought compositionally for the set of the movie but not likening it for everyday use
Cedric Gibbons
Set design bears no resemblance to a place you’d see.
The Kiss
Cedric Gibbons
Top Hat
Cedric Gibbons
