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15 comments to "What’s the Difference: Art Deco vs. Art Nouveau."
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MisterTrilby
March 20th, 2007 at
10:21 am
Your definition of art deco is partly confused with streamline moderne.
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faber
March 20th, 2007 at
11:09 am
i wouldn´t say neither Eiffel Tower nor Klimt’s paintings belongs to Art Noveau movement….The first has no-style, is an engineer construction; Gustav Klimt, Otto Wagner, Victor HOrta, …they belong to Viennese Secession, wich is not the same that Art nouveau.
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Alex
March 20th, 2007 at
12:44 pm
I confess that I know *nothing* about Art Deco or Art Nouveau, which is why I found the article quite interesting.
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Weakly
March 20th, 2007 at
1:18 pm
I still have no idea which is which.
If Nouveau has “stylized forms, often combined with more geometric shapes, particularly arcs, parabolas, and semicircles” and Deco has “streamlined and geometric shapes… bold shapes like sunbursts and zigzags and broad curves”, how can I tell the one with the geometric shapes and arcs from the one with bold geometric shapes and broad curves?
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Jacob
March 20th, 2007 at
2:50 pm
Weakly: “I still have no idea which is which.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_nouveau
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_deco
Look at enough of each, and you’ll be able to tell very easily. (Art Deco has never pleased me that much, really.)
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faber
March 20th, 2007 at
4:12 pm
difference for dummies: Nouveau is soft, flowing, Decó is sharp, static.
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Denita TwoDragons
March 20th, 2007 at
6:44 pm
Enh, I love both styles…when they’re done well, of course.
–TwoDragons
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Ali
March 21st, 2007 at
6:14 am
@TwoDragons
I agree! If it works well I’m all over it like a fat man on a free buffet!
:p
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Denita TwoDragons
March 21st, 2007 at
10:53 am
@ Ali:
“…like a fat man on a free buffet…”
I’m so glad I finished my tea before reading that, or my shirt would be caffeinated right now! *snort!*
–TwoDragons
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Ali
March 21st, 2007 at
6:52 pm
@TwoDragons
*muffled mouth full of macaroni and cheese*
What? o_o
*snarf, gulp, burp!*
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Tom p
March 22nd, 2007 at
9:04 pm
is there a diffrence?? (joke)
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Storm
March 25th, 2007 at
9:42 pm
I was going to offer a big thank you for finally clearing that difference up for me, but it seems that there is some disagreement here so… I may or may not end up feeling gratitude towards you. At this stage I feel that it is too early to commit myself. Sorry.
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MooQuack
August 13th, 2008 at
5:29 pm
Who invented speed lines in the Art Deco era?
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trisha biggs
September 16th, 2008 at
1:35 am
another way to tell if it is art nouveau is the organic symbols. basically living things are portrayed in the items. art deco can be summed up in three words: frank llyod right.
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trisha biggs
September 16th, 2008 at
1:53 am
my last comment, i meant to say nouveau, not deco. F.L.W. styling has an organic feel.
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