Analysis Of Art Deco: A. M Cassandre

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Zoha Liaquat
BSMS - 4B
Shariq Chhapra
History of Commercial Arts
2nd Feb 2016

Art Deco – A.M Cassandre

Art Deco is a visual design style that emerged right before the brink of the First World War and gained popularity during the early 1920s and 30s. This art movement affected all forms of design, ranging from the decorative arts to fashion, from film and photography to transport and product design; Art Deco was everywhere.
Art Deco is known to be the style of the flapper girl and the factory. It encapsulates the fantasy world of Hollywood and the hard world reality of the Harlem Renaissance. It was a splendidly decorative style of art, one that Brian J.R described as “for luxury and leisure, for comfort and conviviality. It is an exciting …show more content…

In this particular poster, the designer has made use of extreme angles to create a sharp effect. While new transportation innovation brought about a lot of progress and change, it was additionally celebrated as an energizing accomplishment. Cassandre depicts the innovation of the train with perfect and basic shapes and underlines its energy by having us gaze toward its towering iron structure from a track-level viewpoint. He likewise accentuates the rate of the rail road with straight lines that vanish quickly into the separation. The poster falls well within the parameters of the Art Deco movement. The train has been reduced to simple circles, rectangles and straight lines which clearly resonates the importance and influence of incorporating geometry in the artworks produced during that …show more content…

The poster akes use of a similar colour scheme of orange, yellow, green and blue. Furthermore huge planes of dark, white and dim make contrast between various geometric components of the boats. The smoke interfaces the yellow piles of the sea liner and tugboat. The cushioned smoke relaxes the hard geometrical lines of the boats and upsets the network structure, adding dynamism to the configuration. Moreover, the smoke is an ashy orange shade that stands out from the blacks and blues of the boats. The white stripe of the sea liner is resounded in the curved white line on the head of the

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