Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Designs for Clothes and Citroen, 1925 Uses the abstract language of modern painting to functional objects  Created a variety of avant garde fabrics, and made more money than her husband, Delaunay  Good example of Art Deco; the heir to art nouveau. Art deco is characterized by straight lines and geometric forms, but still has the same idea that everything should be visually unified.

Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Designs for Clothes and Citroen, 1925

  • Uses the abstract language of modern painting to functional objects 
  • Created a variety of avant garde fabrics, and made more money than her husband, Delaunay 
  • Good example of Art Deco; the heir to art nouveau. Art deco is characterized by straight lines and geometric forms, but still has the same idea that everything should be visually unified.
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  1. artwhat posted this

artwhat.

during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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