Art Deco

On the A4 out of London is another of London's most famous factory buildings - this one belongs to Gillette.

Art Deco was a popular international art design movement from 1925 until the 1940s, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts, and film. At the time, this style was seen as elegant, glamorous, functional, and modern.

The movement was a mixture of many different styles and movements of the early 20th century, including Neoclassical, Constructivism, Cubism, Modernism, Art Nouveau, and Futurism. Its popularity peaked in Europe during the Roaring Twenties and continued strongly in the United States through the 1930s. Although many design movements have political or philosophical roots or intentions, Art Deco was purely decorative

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_deco

Impressionism

Impressionism

Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s and 1880s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy tocoin the term in a satiric review published in Le Charivari.

Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles. The emergence of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed by analogous movements in other media which became known as Impressionist music and Impressionist literature.

Impressionism also describes art created in this style, but outside of the late 19th century time period

African ART

african art has loads of patterns and colours it really nice. then people in the painting have big nose and lips. this shows what the africans look like

African Art constitutes one of the most diverse legacies on earth. Though many casual observers tend to generalize "traditional" African art, the continent is full of peoples, societies, and civilizations, each with a unique visual special culture. The picture above is a child soldier in the ivroy cost of africa

Art Nouveau

this picture looks like an old church building
Art Nouveau

The picture above is Casa Batllo in Barcelona, this building was mad in 1877. In 1905-1907 the Casa Batllo was remodeled. The build is influenced by Art Nouveau or Modernisme. i really like this because the building looks like it is melting

The word Art Nouveau is french meaning new art also know as jugendstil. My out take of Art Nouveau is curves, flowers and a form of bubble text.

The movement was strongly influenced by Czech artist Alphonse Mucha, when Mucha produced a lithographed poster, which appeared on 1 January 1895 in the streets of Paris as an advertisment for the play Gismonda by Victorien Sardou, starring Sarah Bernhardt. It was an overnight sensation, and announced the new artistic style and its creator to the citizens of Paris. Initially called the Style Mucha, (Mucha Style), this soon became known as Art Nouveau.

i really like Art Nouveau when it comes to buildings.. i really don't like thing that is straight forward things . there is a Art Nouveau buliding in muswell hill. i need to take a picture of it and also post that on my blog. it really fasernating how they build this building and furniture