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• Powerstations and Plastic Balls
  by The wizard of ed

  Battersea Power Station is clearly the finest structure in London, forget Apsley House, you want imposing might, you can’t go further tha…

  Battersea Power Station is clearly the finest structure in London, forget Apsley House, you want imposing might, you can’t go further than Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s magnificent Art Deco monolith of brick. / So he had a stab at the telephone box, and Bankside (or the Tate Modern) is alright, but those four chimney’s rising from clutter of terraces and railway sidings strike an imposing figure over the city skyline. And it’s not surprising, it’s the largest brick building in Europe. / From Pink Floyd to Children of Men, via The Beatles and The Dark Knight, it is scorched into our modern cultural psyche, the Bank of England burnt tens of thousands of pounds in the furnaces there when they thought the Bosch were about to conquer us during WW2. Meanwhile the RAF were using the plumes of smoke to guide them home. Screaming Lord Sutch wanted to cover it in wool and make it look like a dead sheep, John Broome tried to turn it into a theme park. Now they want to turn it into a naff collection of faux pot plants and cafes, with a riverside walkway way, exterior designed to within an inch of it’s life. They’ll probably fail. But I don’t care, it meant that it was opened for two days for the public to get inside and have a wander, and this just hasn’t happened very often. (PVZ would have wet himself) On a different note, but while I have your attention, the next day I attended the Lovebox Weekender, and aside from Goldfrapp having these totally ace guys dressed up like colourful carpets pinging it all over the stage, Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips came out in a massive plastic ball and went walking and crawling all over the crowd, oh, and yeah, their show was amazing too

• Art Deco Heaven
  by Mel Brackstone

  If you’re interested, there’s a new group for all your Art Deco images Art Deco was …

  If you’re interested, there’s a new group for all your Art Deco images Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939, 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. This movement was, in a sense, an amalgam of many different styles and movements of the early 20th century, including Neoclassical, Constructivism, Cubism, Modernism, Bauhaus, 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. At the time, this style was seen as elegant, functional, and modern.

• Vintage Gold Cash Register Featured 11 November 2008
  by Karön Melillo d'Vega

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  Vintage Gold Cash Register Featured 11 November 2008 in the group / Art Deco Heaven My heartfelt thanks and appreciation, i am so excited about this feature !! / Thank you Art Deco Heaven Host and Co-Hosts Mel Brackstone / Rose Moxon / Philip Johnson i really appreciate it : ))

• sold so far this year (2007)...and now 2008
  by sunset

  weeeheeee I can now add, sold from gallery26! lucky lady, Talia is the new proud owner! rainbow stripes...

  weeeheeee I can now add, sold from gallery26! lucky lady, Talia is the new proud owner! rainbow stripes / merge to Rob ‘the guy’ clements / and also “emerge” ( a variation) to Theresa, Rob’s lady and now in 2008 summer flow dots / as well as recent painting (image to come) / from the last exhibition at North Sydney / More sold than I’d ever imagined, so I thought I share what did sell with all and sundry! fish / / (it was a different version, on two canvases, but did I take a photo of it? nope-forgot!...another small yellow landscape also sold which I don’t have a photo of…) / and commissioned paintings sold(for someone on a tight budget!) all three together / yoga star (also a t-shirt) / and earlier this year, dandelion / the irony is, I always think people like light coloured work, because they’re easy to live with-but I love the bright stuff…and everyone who’s bought my art also seems to! update, update! from north sydney-3more to add! the red / the blue / and the brown, which is the same as the blue. There you go! 10 from the north sydney show. How wonderful. It really made my day! ( I heard yesterday!) Life gets better everyday!

• Design Styles Series - GA Group Challenge Series
  by Jordan Clarke

  In an effort to clarify what Graphic Arts is and to foster creativity in the process I landed on the idea of creating an ongoing challeng…

  In an effort to clarify what Graphic Arts is and to foster creativity in the process I landed on the idea of creating an ongoing challenge series for the Graphic Arts group here on RedBubble. Graphic Arts is notoriously difficult to define – such is the broad scope of it’s uses. But there are some basic threads of commonality, primarily the intention to communicate. Which explains why tertiary studies in the field usually fall under the title of Communications (i.e a Bachelor of Communications). With that in mind, there are several techniques that are characteristic of graphic arts – mostly based around printing techniques (due to the long history of printmaking next to the more recent growth of digital/cyber formats). The graphic arts have also closely tied with current trends and design movements – which is hardly surprising considering that design is the act of creating to fulfill a demand (as opposed to art for arts sake). Designers are constantly looking to their environment, culture, history, current affairs and so on to inform their work. The linear documentation of art history and architecture are prominent in creative studies – whilst that of graphic arts is less well know (perhaps due to it’s mass-production nature, rather than ‘high-art’ identity). But you will find that art, architecture, industrial/product design, jewellery and graphic arts often cross boundaries with each other. So, getting to the point. Over the next several weeks I will be launching challenges with themes focused on prominent design styles. To keep it interesting I won’t be releasing them in linear order – but jumping around instead. I will have links to more information, and also be providing examples of original and contemporary works in the theme. Here are the themes so far: Cubism / Futurism / Bauhaus Cubism Picasso’s Cubist Man with a Hat of 1912 is an early example of collage, which was a logical outgrowth of Analytic Cubism and marked the beginning of the shift to Synthetic Cubism. Pieces of colored paper and newspaper are pasted onto paper to form geometric representations of a head and neck; the remainder of the image is drawn in charcoal. The use of newspaper, which seems textured because of the newsprint, was a common feature of early collages. Words and letters, which are themselves abstract signs, often formed part of the overall design. Collage, like Cubism, involved disassembling aspects of the environment – just as one might take apart a machine, break up a piece of writing, or even divide a single word into letters – and then rearranging (or reassembling) the parts to form a new image. [i] Futurism The [Futurist] Manifesto sought to inspire in the general public an enthusiasm for a new artistic language. In all the arts – the visual arts, music, literature, theatre, and film – and museum would be abolished, and creative energy would be focused on the present and future. Speed, travel, technology, and dynamism would be the subjects of Futurist art. Piet Mondrian painted Broadway Boogie Woogie [while living in New York in the 1940s as a refugee from World War II]. This was one of a series of pictures that he executed in small squares and rectangles of color, which replaced the large rectangles outlined in black. The grid pattern of the New York streets, the flashing lights of Broadway, and the vertical and horizontal motion of cars and pedestrians are conveyed as flat, colorful shapes. [i] Bauhaus The German version of the International Style centered on the Bauhaus. Its aim was to improve the aesthetic quality of manufactured goods and industrial architecture, to produce them more cheaply, and to make them more widely available. [i] The design innovations commonly associated with…Bauhaus [are] the radically simplified forms, the rationality and functionality, and the idea that mass-production was reconcilable with the individual artistic spirit. [ii] [The] foundations for the future development of functional typography at the Bauhaus were laid with poster and typography designs for various events and publications at the school. This included the Bauhaus postcards, which found wide distribution as original graphic miniatures and which, in their combination of typeface and image, were to become an important advertising medium for the Bauhaus. [iii] Art Nouveau – more info + photos Dynamic, undulating, and flowing lines in a syncopated rhythm, are found throughout the architecture, painting, sculpture and other forms of Art Nouveau design. Two-dimensional Art Nouveau pieces were painted, drawn, and printed in popular forms such as advertisements, posters, labels, magazines, and the like. Japanese wood-block prints, with their curved lines, patterned surfaces, contrasting voids, and flatness of visual plane, also inspired Art Nouveau. [iv] Art Deco Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939, 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. This movement was, in a sense, an amalgam of many different styles and movements of the early 20th century, including Neoclassical, Constructivism, Cubism, Modernism, Bauhaus, Art Nouveau, and Futurism. The bold use of stepped forms and sweeping curves (unlike the sinuous, natural curves of the Art Nouveau), chevron patterns, and the sunburst motif are typical of Art Deco. A resurgence of interest in Art Deco came with graphic design in the 1980s, where its association with film noir and 1930s glamour led to its use in ads for jewelry and fashion [v] Pop Art The imagery of Pop Art was was derived from commercial sources, the mass media, and everyday life…The Pop artists strove for “objectivity” embodied by an imagery of objects. [T]he widespread incorporation of letters and numbers into the new iconography of Pop Art reflects the influence of the newspaper collages produced by Picasso and Braque. [i] Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from popular mass culture, such as advertising,comic books and mundane cultural objects…Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from popular mass culture, such as advertising,comic books and mundane cultural objects. [vi] Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup I (Tomato) of 1968, illustrates his taste for commercial images. The clear precision of his forms and absence of any visible reference to paint texture intensify the confrontation with the object represented – with the object as object. [i] Punk Punk visual art is artwork which often graces punk rock album covers, flyers for punk shows, and punk zines. It is characterised by deliberate violation, such as the use of letters cut out from newspapers and magazines, a device previously associated with kidnap and ransom notes, so the sender’s handwriting was not revealed. Much of the earlier artwork was in black and white, because it was distributed in punk zines reproduced at copy shops, but when colour was used in more expensive productions it was often characterised by being high key, such as the use of fluorescent pink and yellow contrasted with black on the cover of the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bollocks album designed by Jamie Reid. Punk visual art can include anything from* crudely scribbled letters* to shockingly jarring figures drawn with sharp points everywhere. Often images and figures are cut and pasted from magazines to create a scene and the colors are often two tone and deeply contrasting. [vii] [i] A History of Western Art (Third Edition) Laurie Schneider Adams McGraw Hill 2001. / [ii] Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_design / [iii] Bauhaus Archiv Museum of Design, http://www.bauhaus.de/english/bauhaus1919/kunst/kunst_graphik.htm / [iv] Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Nouveau / [v] Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Deco / [vi] Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_art

• Featured in the Art Deco Heaven Group
  by MKWhite

  My image Wet Plymouth has been featured in the “Art Deco Heaven Grou…

  My image Wet Plymouth has been featured in the Art Deco Heaven Group . Thank you everyone for your awesome support and great comments over the past few months, I really appreciate them :) Warm regards, / Michael

• Featured in the Art Deco group :)
  by MKWhite

  My image State Theater HDR 2 has been featured in the “Art De…

  My image State Theater HDR 2 has been featured in the Art Deco Heaven Thank you so much for all of your support and thank you, Philip Rose and Mel for featuring it. :)

• ARTDECO SHOP
  by Nuh Sarche

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• Featured in twelve groups so far!
  by Sam Mortimer

  A huge thank you to these groups and their moderators: >Bits and Pieces, for featuring “Deco” >Current Issues, for featuring “N…

  A huge thank you to these groups and their moderators: >Bits and Pieces, for featuring “Deco” >Current Issues, for featuring “No Simple Issue” >Yellow Fever, for featuring “Decisions!” >Stillness Speaks, for featuring “Peace” >Art Action Union – Creative Acivism, for featuring “Whale” >The Torch, for featuring “Embrace (t-shirt)” >Abstract Digital Art and Writing, for featuring “Bullseye” >Ebony and Ivory, for featuring “Embrace” >That One Great Shot, for featuring “Embrace” >Masterpieces: Literary Workshop, for featuring “Final Release (writing)” >Bits and Pieces, for featuring “Final Release (writing)” >Art Deco Heaven, for featuring “Deco” So, many thanks!

• schoolfriends, football, art deco,shopping ... a busy fortnight
  by Denzil

  Been off the air for over a fortnight now … two friends came to stay a couple of weekends ago, two women with whom I was very close fri…

  Been off the air for over a fortnight now … two friends came to stay a couple of weekends ago, two women with whom I was very close friends at school, but whom I haven’t seen since. To put this in perspective, we left school in 1967, and had a 40th reunion last December, which I went to, and caught up again after all this time. It was a rather traumatic experience for all of us as it turned out, since we all shared similar unhappy and sometimes disturbing memories of our time at a (supposedly) exclusive and expensive girls school in Sydney. Anyway, trauma notwithstanding, my friends accepted an invitation to come to Adelaide for a weekend, and there they were, still my good friends after 40 years. We talked, and drank, and talked, and ate, and drank, and talked … and so it went on, for FOUR DAYS!!! Exhausted, but happy, I barely had time to recover from this when we took off for Melbourne for the AFL Grand Final. A bit of a ritual now, we book airfares and accommodation early in the season, in the hope that the Adelaide Crows will make it to the Grand Final. Once again, we watched it on TV, rather than at the ground, since no tickets can be had if you’re not a member. It was still terrifically exciting, a fantastic game of football, made more bearable by the fact that we didn’t particularly care who won. Melbourne was warm and friendly, the shopping is (as always) awesome, and we ate out and walked around, and generally had a great time. we also went to the fabulous Art DEeco exhibition at the gallery, still there for a couple of days. For Melbournites – if you haven’t been, and you are even remotely interested in/attracted to Art Deco, this will blow your socks off!!! Back now in sunny dry Adelaide, back to work, back to nightly sessions on the Bubble. My apologies to all my BubbleMates whose work I haven’t looked at, let alone commented on … I’m too far behind now, I’ll have to concentrate on the now!

• Old Skool
  by Paul Baines

  Yep on a lighter note this groovy little number came to me while I was watching Jack Nicholson losing it for the umpteenth time in the Sh…

  Yep on a lighter note this groovy little number came to me while I was watching Jack Nicholson losing it for the umpteenth time in the Shining. Started making me think, that whole Charleston vibe, the Flappers and such, they could have done with a few hip hop beats. Hence the gramophone decks and top hat ‘n’ tails. Anyway no deep message, just having a laugh with this one ;)