Art-Deco

The Art Deco movement followed the end of World War II in 1918 and continued into the 1920's and 1930's, celebrating the end of World War One. As in the case of the earlier Art Nouveau movement. Art Deco was not just involved in paintings but was a move to luxury and style, the use of very expensive materials, especially in furniture and jewelry, as can be seen in the images of the first class salons of oceans liners, trains and buildings, the most famous being the spire of the Chrysler Building and Empire State Building in New York and South Beach in Miami. The most iconic Art Deco statue is that of Christ the Redeemer, standing high above Rio de Janeiro in Brasil.Many Art Deco Paintings were influenced by the Cubist movement, particularly the art of Picasso, and Fernand Leger

Famous Art Deco artists are Tamara de Lempicka, Georges Barbier and Erte

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