ART DECO

ART DECO WAS A POPULAR INTERNATIONAL ART MOVEMENT FROM 1925 - 1939 AND IT AFFECTED ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR DESIGN, INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, FASHION, PAINTING, GRAPHIC ARTS AND FILM. IT WAS SAID TO HAVE PEAKED DURING THE "ROARING 20'S". THIS MOVEMENT IS STILL POPULAR TODAY WITH MANY PEOPLE DESIGNING ART DECO HOUSES AND FURNITURE.

CITY HALL OF BUFFALO NEW YORK, DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT GEORGE DIETEL WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF JOHN J WADE

BAUHAUS

The Bauhaus is one of the first colleges of design. It came into being from the merger of the Weimar Academy of Arts and the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts. It was founded by Walter Gropius in 1919 and was closed in 1933 by the Nazis. The Bauhaus is one of the most important Design Movements in the twentieth century. It took place in Germany of the 1920s and early 1930s. This was the age of the Bauhaus, a movement which was a reaction to social change and which aspired an aesthetic relevance

CONSTRUCTIVISM

"Constructivism was an artistic and architectural movement in Russia from 1919 onward which rejected the idea of "art for art's sake" in favour of art as a practice directed towards social purposes. Constructivism as an active force lasted until around 1934, having a great deal of effect on developments in the art of the Weimar Republic and elsewhere, before being replaced by Socialist Realism. Its motifs have sporadically recurred in other art movements since."

Photomontage by Tatlin showing his clothing designs, 1924

Tatlin's tower started a period of exchange of ideas between Moscow and Berlin, something reinforced by El Lissitzky and Ilya Ehrenburg's Soviet-German magazine Veshch-Gegenstand-Objet which spread the idea of 'Construction art', as did the Constructivist exhibits at the 1922 Russische Ausstellung in Berlin, organised by Lissitzky. A 'Constructivist international' was formed, which met with Dadaists and De Stijl artists in Germany in 1922. Participants in this short-lived international included Lissitzky, Hans Richter, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. However the idea of 'art' was becoming anathema to the Russian Constructivists: the INKhUK debates of 1920-22 had culminated in the theory of Productivism propounded by Osip Brik and others, which demanded direct participation in industry and the end of easel painting. Tatlin was one of the first to answer this and attempt to transfer his talents to industrial production, with his designs for an economical stove, for workers' overalls and for furniture. The Utopian element in Constructivism was maintained by his 'letatlin', a flying machine which he worked on until the 1930s.

MAGIC REALISM

Magic realism : (magical realism), is an artistic genre in which magical elements or illogical scenarios appear in an otherwise realistic or even "normal" setting

THE TERM MAGIC REALISM WAS INITIALLY USED BY THE GERMAN ART CRITIC FRANZ ROH TO DESCRIBE PAINTING WHICH DEMONSTRATED AN ALTERED REALITY.

1920 - art movements

THERE WAS QUITE A LOT OF MOVEMENT IN THE ART WORLD DURING THE DECADE THAT I WAS GIVEN FROM 1920 ONWARDS, AT THE START OF THE 1920'S MODERNISM WHICH HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN UNDERATED BROKE THROUGH TO DEFINE THE AGE.
SUCH MOVEMENTS WERE DADA, SURREALISM AND BLOOMSBURY GROUP. INTERESTINGLY I HAVE DISCOVERED THAT AT THE SAME TIME AS THESE MOVEMENTSTHE 1920'S WERE KNOWN AS THE "JAZZ AGE", AND THE PUBLIC SHOWED INTEREST AND ENTHUSIASM FOR CARS, AIR TRAVEL, THE TELEPHONE AND OTHER TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES.
ART DECO WAS ALSO ESTABLISHED AROUND THESE YEARS, I FIND THIS MOVEMENT QUITE INTERESTING AS I FIND ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING INTRIGUING AND HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL.

1920

a. r. group - 1929-1936
American Scene Painting - ca. 1920-early 1940s
Art Deco - 1920s-1930s
Artes / Neoartes - 1929-1935
(The) Blue Four (or "Blauen Vier") - 1924-1936
Circle of Artists (or "Krug Khudozhnikov") - 1926-1932
Constructivism - 1920s-Present
(International) Constructivism - 1922-1939
de Stijl - 1920s-1932
(The) Degenerates / Entartete Kunst - 1920s- mid-1940s
Devetsil - 1920-1931
Earth Group (or "Serbo-Croat Zemlja") - 1929-1935
Eesti Kunstnikkude Rūhm - 1923-ca. 1930
(The) Fellowship of St. Luke - 1925-1939
Group of Seven - 1920-1933
Group X - 1920
Halmstad Group (or "Halmstadgruppen") - 1929-early 1980s
Harlem Renaissance - 1920-1930s
Inkhuk - 1920-26
(The) Kapists - 1924-ca. late 1950s
Magic Realism - 1920s-1940s
Makovets - 1921-1926
Neue Sachlichkeit - 1920s-ca. 1930
Néo-Réalisme - 1920s-1930s
Precisionism - 1920s-1940s
Rhythm Group - 1922-1932
Riga Artists' Group - 1920-1940
Scuola Romana - 1927-1940
Surrealism - 1922-1939
Szentendre Colony - 1928-ca. 1940
Verism - 1920s-ca. 1930
Vkhutemas - 1920-1930
Workshop 17 - 1927-1965