Art deco
Introduction
Art deco is a style of modernism and fashion that can include architecture and decorative arts that was created in the 1920’s predominantly in the US and Western Europe. This was mainly used to display wealth because only rich people could attain this style at the time, for example the luxury items that were art deco could be given to someone else as a gift, like a dress or a chair.(Editors encyclopaedia Britannica,2016). I am specifically going to be speaking about the franchise Bioshock because it has a lot of examples of art deco, ranging from clothing to furniture to buildings.
I will be speaking about art deco in buildings because bioshock has a lot of examples of them. Each Bioshock includes a lot of art deco but
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This picture shows a bronze statue of a man in Bioshock holding a banner saying “No gods or kings only man” which is relevant to the game because a lot of people were going crazy. This statue relates to real life art deco because a lot of art deco used real people back in the 1930’s due to the sculpture normally being a person of importance, in Bioshock this sculpture looks like a person of importance as he is holding a banner disregarding God. More so you can clearly see that this statue is made out of bronze with the colour of it and how clean it looks, meaning that it could be based off many art deco statues. As I was looking around the internet at art deco sculptures and statues nearly all of them were bronze that weren’t new art deco and were made near the 1930’s. This could possibly be because art deco in the 1930’s style was mainly bronze and recently it has changed to be marble, 3d printed or …show more content…
Art deco was for the wealthy to have and that is why the hand proves it is about art deco, the large hand shows power which is what rich people had, and the gold in the hand shows the wealth because gold was for the rich. More evidence proving this was inspired by art deco is the font used in the poster which is used in many real life art deco posters. The font is usually big in art deco posters so it stands out from all the other posters, this makes it look nicer. Art deco posters tend to look really nice because a lot of effort is put into them with the artwork, to the font and the actual quality of the poster being high. This poster is nicely detailed with a lot of minor features that make it look nice. For example the shadowing on the side of the hand that give a sense of direction of where the light is coming from. Another example is the buildings in the background which aren’t the main part of the poster but give it a nice dark back drop that allows you to look further into the
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The statue is made of marble, instead of the bronze statue. This statue is one of the earliest marble statues of a human figure carved in Attica. The statue is a kind of symbol; he does not in any way a likeness. This is my first expression when I saw the statue: the statue is showing me a simple, clear action that was used by Greek youth sculptures throughout this period. Looking at this statue, he expanded into 3D space, because he is standing straight and facing forward without any exaggerated movements, thus the post makes him look closed-off and a column his limbs are locked in space. Therefore, the standing posture, the decorations on his body, his hair and knee’s texture and how the Egyptians impact Greek art, is what makes me interested in it. A question that has always been in my mind is
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...s such at flowers and plants. This form was mainly embraced during its decline as a movement as it became so popular that it was being watered down and lost its ingenuity and integrity as an art form. this was helped by the first world war as the war required an influx of new technology to fight with. things were further stimulated by the returned growth of the economy which meant that people had more money to spend thus were able to purchase better quality and luxury products. art deco began after as the period of glamour and extravagance which saw the creation and usage of new materials such as metals chrome and platinum, and the increase usage of vibrant paters such as stripes and zigzags used of furniture pieces both movements have greatly influenced their later years even after the second world war up to the 1960s which saw art deco revived for a short while.
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