ART ANALYSIS

Art Analysis

Art Deco Analysis

Introduction

Art deco is a style which have spanned the booming roar in 1920 and depressing 1930. It has influenced every form of art deign, from decorative and fine arts to photography, transport, film, products design and fashion. It is an influential art style. It was first appeared in France in 1920s. This art style was grown internationally during 1930s and 1940s. However, this style was diminished in post world war II (Schwatrzman, 2006, pp. 7-9). This style combines the machine age imagery with traditional craft motif eclectically, as shown in fig. 1 below

Most of the time, the art deco style is characterized by bold geometric shapes, rich colors and lavish ornaments, which can be seen in fig.2 below:

This form of art was emerged from the period of inter-war, when the quick industrialization was changing the cultures. The major attributes of art deco also include the use of technology (Gallagher, 2000, pp. 1-5). This differentiates the art deco from the organic motif favored by the forerunner Art Nouveau. In this paper we will analyze the art work of two famous artist of art deco, i.e. Rene Jules Lalique and Adolphe Jean Marie Cassandre, in detail (McKittrick, 1999, pp.20).

Discussion

Rene Lalique

Rene Lalique was a French glass designer. He was famous for his glass art, vases, perfume bottles, chandeliers, jewelry, automobile hood ornament and clocks. He took birth in a village of France called ay on 6th April 1860. He launched his glassware firms which is still successful and named after him. He died on 5th May, 1945 (Gilbert, 2012, p. 10).

Work of Lalique

The first of Lalique was made by hand. He used a lost wax procedure which is not very common in glassmaking. In this process, every mold was broken, so as to remove the glass, thus every piece was unique, as shown in fig.3 (Miller & Dawes, 2005, pp. n.d).

Afterwards, he made use of heavy duty power press to make simple bottles for milk. Then he came up with an approach to create fragile glassware. Lalique worked with the standard assembly line techniques such as blowing glass for reusable molds of metal. He shaped molten glass with the stamping press. He made glass plates with swirling water, ruby vase with embellished grasshoppers on grass blades. Furthermore, he also made thistle garlanded container with milky white glasses, as shown in fig 4 (Benton, 2003, pp. n.d).

Lalique was a master and a true visionary for experimentation. He was one of his kinds to develop the industrial mass-production of glassware. In his thirty years of age he became a leading designer of Art Nouveau jewelry in France. He shifted his attention to glassware in fiftieth year of his age (Leimbach, 1991, pp. n.d).

Fig. 6. Boule de Gui chandelier, by Lalique, 1930-1932, was made in France, in script on the plate. The chandelier has frosted press molded glass. The height of the chandelier was thirteen inches. The model 2206 of this chandelier was launched in 1922; however, it was discontinued in ...