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What is the difference between George Braque and Picasso

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George Braque focused more on landscapes

Picasso focused more on portraiture

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George Braque

Left: Piano and Mandola

Middle: Nature Morte (The Pedestal Table)

Right: Man With a Guitar

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Pablo Picasso

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

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Pablo Picasso

Left: Head of a Woman

Right: Dan Mask from West Africa

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Pablo Picasso

Left: Figure dans un Fauteuil

Middle: Girl with a Mandolin

Right: Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

on display at the Paris Exhibition

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

Defenses Chair

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

Elephant Armchair

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

Gonse armchairs

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

Armchair

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

desk

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

Sun Bed

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

furniture sketches

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

Grand Salon of the Hotel d’un Collectionneur

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

Exposition in le Pavillion d’un Collectionneur

Dining Room

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

interior

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

bedroom drawing

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What heavily influenced Art Deco?

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Egypt and the tomb of King Tut

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Who designed these?

What are these designs associated with?

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Pierre Legrain

Egypt and finding of King Tut’s tomb

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Who is the designer?

What are they associated with?

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Pierre Legrain

Egypt and finding King Tut’s tomb

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What is the Fauvism movement?

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“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

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Henri Matisse

Red Room (Harmony in Red)

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Henri Matisse

The Dance

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Paul Poiret

Important fashion designer

loose-fitting designs created specifically for an uncorseted, slim figure

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Paul Poiret

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Paul Poiret

“lampshade” tunic and “harem” trousers

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Paul Poiret

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Paul Poiret

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Paul Poiret

fabric designs

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Armand Rateau

French architect

furniture maker/designer

luxury materials for the socially elite

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Armand Rateau

The Madrid bathroom of the Duchess of Alba

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Armand Rateau

appartment of Jeanne Lanvin, Paris

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Rene Jules Lalique

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Rene Lalique Jewelry

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Why was the Normandie important?

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It was a “time capsul” of the French Art Deco movement

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Normandie’s grand dining room

Rene Lalique glass

compared to hall of Mirrors at Versailles

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Thomas Hart Benton

America Today mural

Had a Norman Rockwell - like look

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Ideas of Murals

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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

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Art Deco was the advent of:

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artists/designers working with large corporations like Kohler to design items for them

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Chrysler Building

William Van Alen went broke making this building

American Art Deco

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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.

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Radio City Music Hall

Designed by Donald Deskey (read book on him)

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Donald Deskey

Radio City Music Hall

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Donald Deskey

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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.

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Industrial Designers

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Raymond Loewy

Norman Geddes

Walter Teague

Henry Dreyfuss

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Difference between Art Nouveau and Art Deco

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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.

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Johnson Wax Factory

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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.)

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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

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Raymond Loewry

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Raymond Loewry

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Norman Bel Geddes

American theatrical and industrial designer who focused on aerodynamics

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Norman Bel Geddes

hypothetical car designs

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Bel Geddes

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Bel Geddes

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Bel Geddes

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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

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Henry Dreyfuss

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Henry Dreyfuss

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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

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Henry Dreyfuss

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Henry Dreyfuss

Interior, End Section-Diner

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Henry Dreyfuss

Interior, Observation End Looking Forward

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Henry Dreyfuss

Interior, Observation Lounge

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Henry Dreyfuss

Designing for People, an autobiography

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Walter Teague

American Industrial Designer, architect, illustrator, graphic designer, writer, entrepreneur

the “Dean of Industrial Design”

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Designed by Walter Teague

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Walter Teague

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Walter Teague

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Walter Teague

Texaco Service Station, 1940

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Walter Teague’s take on rail cars. They inspired the ones in existence

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Hollywood influenced America during the Depression by the set designs

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Cedric Gibbons

He thought compositionally for the set of the movie but not likening it for everyday use

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Cedric Gibbons

Set design bears no resemblance to a place you’d see.

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The Kiss

Cedric Gibbons

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Top Hat

Cedric Gibbons

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