Why the Skyline is Art Deco

[Richard]

I stand corrected, and I apologize for my too-general terminology in the response you've quoted.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I love it when folks nit picks....

I learn.

 

I never studied any of this. I do have a scatter of 8-10 books.

 

I like Jugenstile....Art Novell.

 

 

Until I was forced to look up Art Deco in a book just now, I'd forgotten the geometrical lines that was often used.

So it appears the black glass "Art Deco" inkwell that I have could well be Bauhaus.

Oh, well...it's still pretty, be it Bauhaus or Art Deco.

 

I was to a furniture museum and was totally astounded at how much "modern" furniture is pure Bauhaus, or even still Thonet influenced.

 

Normally though, I think of square topped fountain pens as Art Deco.

[Artie]

I think you mean Jugendstil....Art Nouveau.

[framebaer]

 

 

I like Jugenstile....Art Novell.

 

 

Bo Bo, I like your clever puns

[gregkoos]

These discussions are useful, for art history's primary goal is to help us look at things, and see them better. Naming, catgorizing and sorting are part of seeing. But it is important to rememeber these mental actions do not change the thing itself. These things are simply shaped plastic and metal. To state it is "x" helps us see and understand, the statement does not make it "x." Categories change as we seek better ways to see and understand.

 

 

[eugene williams]

As an industrial design student this was really interesting

[chiaroscuro]

I don't know much about this subject, but here are my two (uninformed) cents:

 

When I first saw the Skyline, I thought "late '20s," "Buck Rogers (original)" and "Fritz Lang's Metropolis."