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Art Deco was an art movement involving a mix of modern decorative art
styles, largely of the 1920s and 1930s, whose main characteristics were
derived from various avant-garde painting styles of the early twentieth
century. Art deco works exhibit aspects of Cubism, Russian Constructivism
and Italian Futurism -- with abstraction, distortion, and simplification,
particularly geometric shapes and highly intense colors -- celebrating the
rise of commerce, technology, and speed. The growing impact of the machine
can be seen in repeating and overlapping images from 1925; and in the
1930s, in streamlined forms derived from the principles of aerodynamics.
The name came from the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs
Industriels et Modernes, held in Paris, which celebrated living in the
modern world. It was popularly considered to be an elegant style of cool
sophistication in architecture and applied arts which range from luxurious
objects made from exotic material to mass produced, streamlined items
available to a growing middle class. The original Art Deco period of the
'20's and '30's is also known as the "Machine Age".
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