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What is the difference between George Braque and Picasso

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George Braque focused more on landscapes

Picasso focused more on portraiture

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George Braque

Left: Piano and Mandola

Middle: Nature Morte (The Pedestal Table)

Right: Man With a Guitar

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Pablo Picasso

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

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Pablo Picasso

Left: Head of a Woman

Right: Dan Mask from West Africa

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Pablo Picasso

Left: Figure dans un Fauteuil

Middle: Girl with a Mandolin

Right: Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

on display at the Paris Exhibition

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

Defenses Chair

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

Elephant Armchair

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

Gonse armchairs

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

Armchair

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

desk

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

Sun Bed

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

furniture sketches

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

Grand Salon of the Hotel d’un Collectionneur

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

Exposition in le Pavillion d’un Collectionneur

Dining Room

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

interior

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Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

bedroom drawing

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What heavily influenced Art Deco?

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Egypt and the tomb of King Tut

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Who designed these?

What are these designs associated with?

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Pierre Legrain

Egypt and finding of King Tut’s tomb

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Who is the designer?

What are they associated with?

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Pierre Legrain

Egypt and finding King Tut’s tomb

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What is the Fauvism movement?

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“The Wild Beast Movement”

A short-lived art movement

Vivid colors - sometimes applying paint straight from tubes

Inspired by post-impressionist artists

Simplified drawing style and fewer details

Complimentary colors that look “electric” together

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Henri Matisse

Red Room (Harmony in Red)

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Henri Matisse

The Dance

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Paul Poiret

Important fashion designer

loose-fitting designs created specifically for an uncorseted, slim figure

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Paul Poiret
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Paul Poiret "lampshade" tunic and "harem" trousers
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Paul Poiret
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Paul Poiret
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Paul Poiret fabric designs
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Armand Rateau French architect furniture maker/designer luxury materials for the socially elite
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Armand Rateau The Madrid bathroom of the Duchess of Alba
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Armand Rateau appartment of Jeanne Lanvin, Paris
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Rene Jules Lalique
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Rene Lalique Jewelry
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Why was the Normandie important?
It was a "time capsul" of the French Art Deco movement
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Normandie's grand dining room Rene Lalique glass compared to hall of Mirrors at Versailles
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Thomas Hart Benton America Today mural Had a Norman Rockwell - like look
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Ideas of Murals
Colors are brighter and seems like you’re making a cartoon out of industrialization and it’s depicted in a much more positive light A bit of propoganda to it as well
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Art Deco was the advent of:
artists/designers working with large corporations like Kohler to design items for them
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Chrysler Building William Van Alen went broke making this building American Art Deco
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Chanin Building Jacques Delamarre use of Bas-relief: Egyptian technique of foreshortening a 3D object but still keeping it 3D on a flat surface or fairly flat surface.
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Radio City Music Hall Designed by Donald Deskey (read book on him)
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Donald Deskey Radio City Music Hall
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Donald Deskey
interiors of Radio City Music Hall private apartment for the RCMH manager RCMH is a fine example of application of streamlining to a commercial interior He was greatly impressed by the Paris fair that he started work as a designer and furniture designer, soon ranking as a leading exponent of American Art Deco.
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Industrial Designers
Raymond Loewy Norman Geddes Walter Teague Henry Dreyfuss
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Difference between Art Nouveau and Art Deco
Art Nouveau: much more decorative, flowing, and floral.It featured naturalistic but stylised forms, often combined with shapes which were more geometric like parabolas, and semicircles. Art Deco: sharp and based on straight lines and corners. **Celebrated the dawn of the industrial age.** The style adopted in Art Deco architecture was bold straight lines arranged symmetric like machines with equally bold colours unlike natural shades.
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Johnson Wax Factory
Frank Lloyd Wright Based on vehicular traffic as if we were evolving as a nation of mass transit Uses pyrex as a way to bring light into the building. No real windows to the outside. Like a lillypad structural system. It holds up pyrex to let the light in It’s a self-contained and self referential building. You go into a lower entrance and into a bigger place He designed every facet of it (Desk, table, chairs, etc.)
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Raymond Loewry Initially a graphic designer who got into architecture and became an industrial designer Got into the streamline movement Designed Exxon, Canada Dry, Post Office logos
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Raymond Loewry
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Raymond Loewry
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Norman Bel Geddes American theatrical and industrial designer who focused on aerodynamics
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Norman Bel Geddes hypothetical car designs
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Bel Geddes
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Bel Geddes
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Bel Geddes
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Henry Dreyfuss (born in NYC) started out as a set designer - he designed over 250 sets moved into industrial design. Design consultant for Macy's, Bell Telephone, AT&T, American Airlines, Polaroid, Hoover Designed tractors and ag machinery for John Deere
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Henry Dreyfuss
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Henry Dreyfuss
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Henry Dreyfuss Redesign of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Hudson J-3 Some credit his design to the designs of the first bullet trains Meant to look like it was in a perpetual state of motion
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Henry Dreyfuss
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Henry Dreyfuss Interior, End Section-Diner
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Henry Dreyfuss Interior, Observation End Looking Forward
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Henry Dreyfuss Interior, Observation Lounge
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Henry Dreyfuss *Designing for People*, an autobiography
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Walter Teague American Industrial Designer, architect, illustrator, graphic designer, writer, entrepreneur the "Dean of Industrial Design"
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Designed by Walter Teague
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Walter Teague
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Walter Teague
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Walter Teague Texaco Service Station, 1940
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Walter Teague's take on rail cars. They inspired the ones in existence
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Hollywood influenced America during the Depression by the set designs
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Cedric Gibbons He thought compositionally for the set of the movie but not likening it for everyday use
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Cedric Gibbons Set design bears no resemblance to a place you'd see.
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The Kiss Cedric Gibbons
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Top Hat Cedric Gibbons

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