Thank you for explaining the difference. I'll remember Art Nouveau as influenced by nature while Art Deco is not afraid of embracing the industrialization.
Art Nouveau is organic, inspired in nature, highly decorative, feminine and definitely not geometric. Art Deco is geometric with straight lines, sharp angles, and geometric curves. It is masculine. It can be highly decorated or simpler.
Absolutely agree. What drew me into art deco is the stark symmetry of the architecture and the bold color contrasts without a dividing line of the advertising posters of the era. Of course, neither quality is guaranteed to be present in anything considered 'art deco,' but both and more _might_ be. My favorite pieces of art deco advertising posters tend to be French and Italian (the German version was good, too, but its intent was evil). The Americans were no slouch either, however, and my favorite artists are JC Leyendecker and Leslie Ragan.
I grew up on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx which is the avenue with the most Art Deco buildings in the World. I love this style. I see Art Nouveau as being more floral in its lines and its color schemes as well. Art Deco to me seems like a distillation of many elements, Cubism, Futureism. It has the straight lines of Wright's architecture, but an influence of the curvatures of Nouveau. I also see in a lot of it a strong influence of the geometric lines of Egyptian and Aztec architecture, as well as Mesopotamian styles. It really was a very eclectic style. As for the aesthetics, when it's good, it wonderful, and when it's not........ I think it's one of those things you either love it or hate it.
I think of Art Nouveau is feminine, impressionistic, representational. Art Deco is masculine, simple, linear. Both abstracted and not realistic, both stemming from the Arts and Crafts movement.
Leta Robinson Well said. The Victorian era is still seen in Art Nouveao and is absent in Deco. Opposite to the speakers "opinion", Art Deco is truly more Modern, Masculin, in elements with clean lines, and more neutral in color schemes. The direct lead-in to Modern, Mid-Century, and then the era's "trendy" - the fun and propaganda marketing Ideaologies of the Cold War/Nuclear times - "Atomic-era" ⚛ - "The Jetsons always come to mind, lol" - as true conceptual in the reality of the Cartoonish of the times - colorful, lightweight, and vinyls/lanoleum/plastics/nylon.
You did a pretty good job describing both styles and contrasting them. Art Nouveau was inspired by natural lines: feminine curves (including nudity), snakes, vines and tendrils. It tended to scandalize the middle class, especially in the English speaking world, with how "decadent" it was. Most Art Nouveau buildings are found in European cities as a result. Art Deco was inspired by geometric shapes (circles, straight lines, triangles and rectangles) and especially the shiny surfaces that could be obtained by machining. Geometric sunburst designs (like on the top of the Chrysler building) were particularly popular. It was much more acceptable to the middle class because it was more subtly seductive than frankly sexy. It was considered futuristic at the time, though looking back on it today it looks quite dated. Most US cities have at least some Art Deco buildings, even if they are just gas stations, diners, and theaters, but probably not any Art Nouveau.
I think the distinction between these two different types of architecture/design is tremendously important and I’m sure that the vast majority of the population has no idea what they’re looking at let alone any concept of the social importance. We were very fortunate to have lived in Europe for eight years and we had plenty of art nouveau especially in Barcelona
Art Deco spanned the period of from 1920 right up into 1950. "Authoritarian Modern" then began it's rampage of destruction right through the 1980s. Following the design sterilization age of Authoritarian Modern, we have the gradual emergence of Post Modern Retro. The New Century, and New Millennium, have given us a new design movement: One could call this Computer Graphic Design Age, or something else?
Thanks Spencer, I really enjoyed your examples and love both art deco and art nouveau with a slight emphasis on nouveau. I would describe it as the more organic of the two styles. We have some lovely art deco in Australia.
thank you for your comments. i'm certainly not an expert in art or design; these videos are part of my own endeavour to increase my understanding of unfamiliar topics, so i appreciate your suggestions. and you've identified some beautiful examples of art deco that I encourage other viewers to explore.
I need to express my gratitude to you for helping me move into and grow in a new career. If you're looking for topics for discussion, I would love to see some things of primitivism and naive art. Cheers!
So Art Nouveau is more of a fluid, Orgainic style that tried to utilize circular, round and parabolic shapes, and artists at the time tried to follow this style to go against the more mechanical, inorganic, rigid and angular styles of machinery found in the Industrial Revolution? Meanwhile the Art Deco style is embracing that Industrialization by building off of angular, geometric, and inorganic shapes? If that is true, I'm guessing the thing that they are bound by is the similarity that they both suggest movement, just in different ways. Nouveau seems to use organic lines and curvy shapes, reminiscient of (like you said) a vine or plant-life. Meanwhile Art Deco eliminates all similarities to nature in being imperfect shapes, but instead utilizes symmetrical and semi angular ones, still with the use of a curve. Like you said, they seem more 'streamline' in which they take a rigid shape (a 2-d representaion of a line/ a line with width) , but curve it and slope it around a structure. So, let me get this straight: Nouveau - Organic, winding lines forming curvy, unique shapes Deco - Inorganinc, straight lines bending to form curves over a rigid, square, uniform structure. Right? (Please, any more info or tips would be greatly appreciated, I'm working on a personal art-project with these concepts. :)
I'd probably disagree with your wording on Art Deco being "imperfect" shapes. It's the very fact that they are perfect that makes them seem inorganic. I'm starting to think of Art Deco as "Brutalist with Bling".
Nick Walker They are simply brother and sister - masculine and feminine. Nouveau is still showing her Victorian "slip" Deco is another step towards Modern, the foundation of Modern.
I came across this video while trying to find out more about art deco after Mumbai's Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensemble made it to the UNESCO world heritage list. They call Mumbai's art deco Indo Deco because of the Indian influences in it.
please could you tell me the names of the objects in the pictures of art nouveau? .. I have to do a research on art nouveau in France, and I find this a very interesting video
"?" The speakers attitude towards Deco - odd and odd Opinion of Deco as old fashioned, compared to Nouveau, that's opposite of reality - it is the definition of the Modern Movement and towards the "Modern, MidCentury, and all foundations we use a defining Modern and Classic Modern". I can never think of the Chrysler Building or Empire State Building as old-fashioned. They are the Pyramids of the 20th Century. Frank Lloyd Wright - old fashioned - ha - nope! Jazz and Django Reinhardt are still hip! "?"
Both are more beauty and has its own identity, very diferent case of art of nowadays that has no meaning at all. Just the most generic thing ever used in architeture and art in general.
Americans "use to be the fearless explorers and innovators, thus the cutting-edge in Modern" Deco is More Modern, however I can understand now - the speaker's opinion - being of a younger generation - he associates (more designs found in the USA equivalent to old fashioned - as that would be the case in a today's building reality) The MS News Media has been working on the public's thought-reality, a long time now - We only truly know, what we see live and the remainder is all woven with opinions, edits, missing facts, half truths, advertising, and threads of ideas to achieve the Owners - (scary reality) "Rothschild owns and/or controls it all and the Federal Reserve That's- the •Communications/Information and the •Currency/Money 2 most powerful tools for control
Coming back to this nearly 7 years later, I sort of regret injecting my own relatively uninformed opinion into the video. I think what you and other viewers have said is true. Art deco, despite being the modern style, has ironically become more "old fashioned" looking in the minds of younger Americans like me. As styles like art nouveau become more distant they fall out of our visual conscience and appear fresh and new when we see them again.
No. It's so much more than that. I guess it depends of what you're looking at. The Radiator Building in NYC is just god awful. The curved corners, straight lines and stream lining on many buildings is really awe inspiring. It was a global movement from the U.S.A to Shanghai. The classic glamour of the 1930's is all Art Deco.
Thank you for explaining the difference. I'll remember Art Nouveau as influenced by nature while Art Deco is not afraid of embracing the industrialization.
Art Nouveau is organic, inspired in nature, highly decorative, feminine and definitely not geometric.
Art Deco is geometric with straight lines, sharp angles, and geometric curves. It is masculine. It can be highly decorated or simpler.
Art Nouveau's first boy child, Cubism being the father perhaps.
that glasgow example is a big punch to your face I would say
Nouveau was nature feminine romantism and art deco was Ankcient modern mighty masculine and slik
Art Deco fan all the way (especially when it comes to jewelry), although I really do appreciate much of the Art Nouveau architecture.
Absolutely agree. What drew me into art deco is the stark symmetry of the architecture and the bold color contrasts without a dividing line of the advertising posters of the era. Of course, neither quality is guaranteed to be present in anything considered 'art deco,' but both and more _might_ be.
My favorite pieces of art deco advertising posters tend to be French and Italian (the German version was good, too, but its intent was evil). The Americans were no slouch either, however, and my favorite artists are JC Leyendecker and Leslie Ragan.
Dido
I didn’t realize Art Nouveau was a response to (against) the Industrial Revolution. Great video.
I grew up on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx which is the avenue with the most Art Deco buildings in the World. I love this style. I see Art Nouveau as being more floral in its lines and its color schemes as well. Art Deco to me seems like a distillation of many elements, Cubism, Futureism. It has the straight lines of Wright's architecture, but an influence of the curvatures of Nouveau. I also see in a lot of it a strong influence of the geometric lines of Egyptian and Aztec architecture, as well as Mesopotamian styles. It really was a very eclectic style. As for the aesthetics, when it's good, it wonderful, and when it's not........ I think it's one of those things you either love it or hate it.
TRUTHTEACHER2007
Cubism - exactly
Thank you! You have an amazing gift to simplify more complex ideas!
I think of Art Nouveau is feminine, impressionistic, representational. Art Deco is masculine, simple, linear. Both abstracted and not realistic, both stemming from the Arts and Crafts movement.
Leta Robinson
Well said.
The Victorian era is still seen in Art Nouveao and is absent in Deco.
Opposite to the speakers "opinion", Art Deco is truly more Modern, Masculin, in elements with clean lines, and more neutral in color schemes.
The direct lead-in to Modern, Mid-Century, and then the era's "trendy" - the fun and propaganda marketing Ideaologies of the Cold War/Nuclear times - "Atomic-era" ⚛ - "The Jetsons always come to mind, lol" - as true conceptual in the reality of the Cartoonish of the times - colorful, lightweight, and vinyls/lanoleum/plastics/nylon.
You did a pretty good job describing both styles and contrasting them. Art Nouveau was inspired by natural lines: feminine curves (including nudity), snakes, vines and tendrils. It tended to scandalize the middle class, especially in the English speaking world, with how "decadent" it was. Most Art Nouveau buildings are found in European cities as a result.
Art Deco was inspired by geometric shapes (circles, straight lines, triangles and rectangles) and especially the shiny surfaces that could be obtained by machining. Geometric sunburst designs (like on the top of the Chrysler building) were particularly popular. It was much more acceptable to the middle class because it was more subtly seductive than frankly sexy. It was considered futuristic at the time, though looking back on it today it looks quite dated. Most US cities have at least some Art Deco buildings, even if they are just gas stations, diners, and theaters, but probably not any Art Nouveau.
Soooo beneficial. I came confused. Left enlightened & well informed!
Thanks! I've got a 'Resistant Materials' exam tomorrow and I need to incorporate this type of design into a product, cheers.
Well that was just super. Clear, concise and fun. I just wandered here by chance. I'm glad I did.
Im a big fan of art deco i just love the architecture
I really appreciate you sharing your thoughts on this. Thank You.
I love Art Deco .The sleek shapes are very pleasing esthetically.
The Chrysler building is a monument to Art Deco
Great video, loved your "Jazz Age" inflection, lol.
It's a dream of mine to own a big art nouveau/late Victorian looking building in Manhattan or mainland Europe (I live in the uk)
I think the distinction between these two different types of architecture/design is tremendously important and I’m sure that the vast majority of the population has no idea what they’re looking at let alone any concept of the social importance. We were very fortunate to have lived in Europe for eight years and we had plenty of art nouveau especially in Barcelona
Art Deco spanned the period of from 1920 right up into 1950. "Authoritarian Modern" then began it's rampage of destruction right through the 1980s. Following the design sterilization age of Authoritarian Modern, we have the gradual emergence of Post Modern Retro. The New Century, and New Millennium, have given us a new design movement: One could call this Computer Graphic Design Age, or something else?
Thanks Spencer, I really enjoyed your examples and love both art deco and art nouveau with a slight emphasis on nouveau. I would describe it as the more organic of the two styles. We have some lovely art deco in Australia.
VERY good explanation. I never knew this! Thanks for putting this together.
Thanks so much for this. I have learned a lot.
thank you for sharing this! it has been really beneficial for me i truly understand now
Very nicely done! Thanks
Very clear and informative, thank you.
Good way to show the difference in the two styles , if its Steampunk then its Art Nouveau , if its Noir then its Art Deco
Thank you, that actually helps quite a bit. Now I can use that example in a Neo-Noir Retrofuturism model. :)
Or Dieselpunk as Art Deco
Really good explanation, thank you!
thank you for your comments. i'm certainly not an expert in art or design; these videos are part of my own endeavour to increase my understanding of unfamiliar topics, so i appreciate your suggestions. and you've identified some beautiful examples of art deco that I encourage other viewers to explore.
Short and on point! Thanks.
Great demonstration! Thank you so much!!
Very helpful video. Thanks!
I need to express my gratitude to you for helping me move into and grow in a new career. If you're looking for topics for discussion, I would love to see some things of primitivism and naive art. Cheers!
So Art Nouveau is more of a fluid, Orgainic style that tried to utilize circular, round and parabolic shapes, and artists at the time tried to follow this style to go against the more mechanical, inorganic, rigid and angular styles of machinery found in the Industrial Revolution?
Meanwhile the Art Deco style is embracing that Industrialization by building off of angular, geometric, and inorganic shapes?
If that is true, I'm guessing the thing that they are bound by is the similarity that they both suggest movement, just in different ways. Nouveau seems to use organic lines and curvy shapes, reminiscient of (like you said) a vine or plant-life. Meanwhile Art Deco eliminates all similarities to nature in being imperfect shapes, but instead utilizes symmetrical and semi angular ones, still with the use of a curve. Like you said, they seem more 'streamline' in which they take a rigid shape (a 2-d representaion of a line/ a line with width) , but curve it and slope it around a structure.
So, let me get this straight:
Nouveau - Organic, winding lines forming curvy, unique shapes
Deco - Inorganinc, straight lines bending to form curves over a rigid, square, uniform structure.
Right? (Please, any more info or tips would be greatly appreciated, I'm working on a personal art-project with these concepts. :)
I'd probably disagree with your wording on Art Deco being "imperfect" shapes. It's the very fact that they are perfect that makes them seem inorganic. I'm starting to think of Art Deco as "Brutalist with Bling".
Nick Walker
They are simply brother and sister - masculine and feminine.
Nouveau is still showing her Victorian "slip"
Deco is another step towards Modern, the foundation of Modern.
thank you you simplified it so much too me
Fantastic job! Beautiful examples. Can you tell me what & where is the gorgeous building @2:26, please? Right after the Chrysler building. Thank you!
Thank you so much! This is really helpful. I subscribed.
I came across this video while trying to find out more about art deco after Mumbai's Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensemble made it to the UNESCO world heritage list. They call Mumbai's art deco Indo Deco because of the Indian influences in it.
Thank you for the awesome video and information. Liked and subscribing. Cheers.
Thank you!! I love both styles.
are the audio levels for mice?
I would like to see objects that you would have trouble categorizing as either nouveau or deco.
please could you tell me the names of the objects in the pictures of art nouveau? .. I have to do a research on art nouveau in France, and I find this a very interesting video
I'm a little partial to Deco, but both styles are amazing.
Wonderful explanation. Thank you!!!
Actually, art nouveau is full of symmetry. It contains frieze symmetry, rotational symmetry, and tessellation
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Thanks for your expert appraisement.
Erte's art is a great example of art nouveau The Golden Gate bridge is a good example of art deco.
I'm surprised you missed the reflective symmetry in some of your own slides
Thank you!
Thank you so much for your video. Subscribed!
saw the most beautiful art nouveau furniture in the musée d'orsay :)
But isn't the Eiffel Tower Art Deco? Also Art Deco went through the 1940's, I believe?
Thanks I was watching "There's Something About Mary", Matt Dillon's character had a lucky guess.
I enjoyed that, thank you X
I love art deco best.
very approaching vedio keep it up
Art deco is about speed, movement and bold lines.
Try Arts & Crafts next!
Art deco looks more utilitarian in my opinion with much stronger/rigid lines
Beautiful
Very good thank you.
I'm trying to get the scratches off my visor but having a hard time. can you help
Love both.
Thanks!
It's been pretty instructive! :)
Besides, you've got a nice voice ;)
Well, that was enlightening!
where is the building of the minute 3:03?
Dad would have loved New York.
Thank You !!
Très jolie!!
THanks! Nice prep for exam :)
Great Video. Methinks Art Nouveau is Feminine. Whereas Art Deco is Masculine.
"?" The speakers attitude towards Deco - odd and odd Opinion of Deco as old fashioned, compared to Nouveau, that's opposite of reality - it is the definition of the Modern Movement and towards the "Modern, MidCentury, and all foundations we use a defining Modern and Classic Modern".
I can never think of the Chrysler Building or Empire State Building as old-fashioned. They are the Pyramids of the 20th Century.
Frank Lloyd Wright - old fashioned - ha - nope!
Jazz and Django Reinhardt are still hip!
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Très interesant!
wonderful film....
Art Nouveau all the way
Art Nouveau = Europe
Art Deco = USA
Please in ESPAÑOL GRACIAS.....
Love art deco
thnk you, keep it up:)
thnx mate :)
Both are more beauty and has its own identity, very diferent case of art of nowadays that has no meaning at all. Just the most generic thing ever used in architeture and art in general.
@jfesmire2 if you buy my plane ticket I'll buy the pizza
Art Nouveau = Elves
Art Deco = Dwarves
Why ? lmao
@@stevenaguilera9202 That's how their architectural styles are
@@EzioIlMentore Just looked it up; you are 100% correct ! :o
Ohmygod beautiful voice *_*
art deco all the way
i dont know how i ended up here.
Rolando Maldonado perhaps it was your excellent taste
Americans "use to be the fearless explorers and innovators, thus the cutting-edge in Modern"
Deco is More Modern, however I can understand now - the speaker's opinion - being of a younger generation - he associates (more designs found in the USA equivalent to old fashioned - as that would be the case in a today's building reality)
The MS News Media has been working on the public's thought-reality, a long time now -
We only truly know, what we see live and the remainder is all woven with opinions, edits, missing facts, half truths, advertising, and threads of ideas to achieve the Owners - (scary reality)
"Rothschild owns and/or controls it all and the Federal Reserve
That's- the •Communications/Information
and the
•Currency/Money
2 most powerful tools for control
Coming back to this nearly 7 years later, I sort of regret injecting my own relatively uninformed opinion into the video. I think what you and other viewers have said is true. Art deco, despite being the modern style, has ironically become more "old fashioned" looking in the minds of younger Americans like me. As styles like art nouveau become more distant they fall out of our visual conscience and appear fresh and new when we see them again.
pretty easy .. art nouveau (jugendstil) wonderful and beautiful .. art deco: american styled crap without skill just big and straight ..
No. It's so much more than that. I guess it depends of what you're looking at. The Radiator Building in NYC is just god awful. The curved corners, straight lines and stream lining on many buildings is really awe inspiring. It was a global movement from the U.S.A to Shanghai. The classic glamour of the 1930's is all Art Deco.
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Thanks! I've got a 'Resistant Materials' exam tomorrow and I need to incorporate this type of design into a product, cheers.