Thursday, 30 October 2008

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

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