Art Deco

Art Deco is a Real World And Fatter World art movement that originated in France shortly after the first World War. A visual representation of the changing world of the early 20th century, Art Deco uses symmetry, geometry, motion, and industrial motifs to represent an age of technology and progress. As a flexible and all encompassing art style, art deco can be seen in buildings, cars, appliances, furniture, and even decorative bottles of alcohol. Unfortunately, wartime conservation of World War II and the emergence of Bauhaus functionalism in mass public design soundly usurped the throne of popular art during the 1950's and even into today. However art deco still comes back into minor popularity from time to time thanks to television shows like Miami Vice and it's setting in the well preserved Ocean Drive district of South Beach, and the city of Rapture from the Bioshock series.