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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.
The whiplash or whiplash line is a motif of decorative art and design that was particularly popular in Art Nouveau. It is an asymmetrical, sinuous line, often in an ornamental S-curve, usually inspired by natural forms such as plants and flowers, which suggests dynamism and movement. [1]
Crackled glass was glass filled with webs of small cracks and fissures, refracting light and causing the glass to have a sparkling effect. [1] Émaux-Bijoux was a technique invented by Emile Gallé. Translucent layers of enamel were built up in layers and then fused to a foil of precious metal, which was then heated and attached to the outside ...
Art glass is a subset of glass art, this latter covering the whole range of art made from glass. Art glass normally refers only to pieces made since the mid-19th century, and typically to those purely made as sculpture or decorative art , with no main utilitarian function, such as serving as a drinking vessel, though of course stained glass ...
The turn of the 19th century was the height of the old art glass movement while the factory glass blowers were being replaced by mechanical bottle blowing and continuous window glass. Great ateliers like Tiffany, Lalique, Daum, Gallé, the Corning schools in upper New York state, and Steuben Glass Works took glass art to new levels.
Neo-Victorian – Aesthetic movement; Pteridomania – Popular craze in late nineteenth-century United Kingdom; Staffordshire dog figurine – Matching pottery pieces; Hand cooler – egg-shaped item originally made of porcelain, marble, glass or crystal, cooled and carried in the hand
The movement represented the beginning of a greater appreciation of the decorative arts throughout Europe. The appeal of the Arts and Crafts movement to a new generation led the English architect and designer Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo to organize the Century Guild for craftsmen in 1882, championing the idea that there was no meaningful ...
The American Craftsman style was a 20th century American offshoot of the British Arts and Crafts movement, [1] which began as early as the 1860s. [2]A successor of other 19th century movements, such as the Gothic Revival and the Aesthetic Movement, [2] the British Arts and Crafts movement was a reaction against the deteriorating quality of goods during the Industrial Revolution, and the ...