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Textile Design Art Movements and Period Styles Art Deco: Geometric France, 1924, gouache on paper, AYG D415 04

Title: Textile Design Art Movements and Period Styles Art Deco: Geometric France, 1924, gouache on paper, AYG D415_04
Design Library Classification: Art Movements and Period Styles
Design Library Sub-classification: Art Deco: Geometric
Media Type Textile Design
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Creator(s): Unknown
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Contributor: Design Library
Country France
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Publication Date: 1924
Image Description: France, 1924, gouache on paper

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"ART DECO HAS been divided into three periods: the "zigzag moderne" of the 1920s, exemplified by the angled lines of the Chrysler Building in New York, and by sharp-edged motifs of sunbursts and stylized animals; the "streamlined moderne" of the early 1930s, when straight lines and points were smoothed and curved as if swept by the wind; and the "classical moderne" associated with the years of the Depression, a more austere look based on modern stylizations of neoclassical forms. Though most of the patterns shown here are European, the United States produced much work of high quality in the Art Deco style. Yet when the French invited the United States to participate in the 1925 "Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes," Herbert Hoover, then secretary of commerce, declined, remarking that the country had nothing modern to show."

Source: Design Library