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Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs (lit. ' Decorative Arts '), [1] is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), [2] and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.
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Articles related to the decorative arts, arts or crafts whose object is the design and manufacture of objects that are both beautiful and functional. It includes most of the arts making objects for the interiors of buildings, and interior design, but not usually architecture.
The distinction between the decorative and fine arts essentially arose from the post-renaissance art of the West, where the distinction is for the most part meaningful. This distinction is much less meaningful when considering the art of other cultures and periods, where the most valued works, or even all works, include those in decorative media.
The Art Deco style, which originated in France just before World War I, had an important impact on architecture and design in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. The most notable examples are the skyscrapers of New York City , including the Empire State Building , Chrysler Building , and Rockefeller Center .
State Philharmonic Hall, Kaunas (Edmundas Alfonsas Frykas, 1929), neoclassical style building with bright Art Deco architectural elements Vytautas the Great War Museum and M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum palace, Kaunas ( Vladimir Dubenecki , 1936)
The Ornamental Art of the Hungarian People. Akadémiai, Budapest] [Bérczi Sz. (1987): Szimmetriajegyek a honfoglalás kori palmettás és az avar kori griffes-indás díszítőművészetben. Cumania. 10. Symmetry in Ornamental Art of the Palmette art of Conquesting Hungarians and the Griffin-and-Tendrill art of the Avar-Onogurians.
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