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The "Art Deco" o taste for simplicity and style

2026-08-24T08:51:00.000-05:00

I like to visit exhibitions and thus to become cultured. A few days ago I went to the ABC Museum in Madrid to see an exhibition about Art Deco. It was a small visit, from a single room, where through covers or drawings of the ABC newspaper and the Blanco y Negro magazine, they explain the approaches of this artistic current that has influenced us more than we suppose.
I found it interesting to take some notes and put them on the blog, as a souvenir and also in case you find them useful or entertaining.

The International Exhibition of Decorative Arts that took place in Paris in 1925 marked the birth of an artistic movement.
The black and white magazine and the ABC were means of dissemination of the most modern artistic movements at the beginning of the 20th century. The current "Art Deco" was collected in these journals. This explains this exhibition at the ABC Foundation in Madrid, which I found very interesting and formative, although it is certainly very small and limited to a single

In the exhibition that is currently in the museum of the ABC Foundation is a set of drawings from that time that brings us closer to the proposals of interior design in the 20s - 30s.

It was an eminently urban style of large houses, luminous facades, bright materials, diaphanous rooms. His proposal was simplicity and stylized forms.
In the international exhibition of decorative arts of 1925, Spain did not contribute much, but nevertheless this exhibition frame enough for Spain to adopt these approaches, still visible today, for example in the Gran Via de Madrid.
The "Art Deco" emerged as an abbreviation of this famous Parisian international

It was a proposal based on applied arts: architecture, painting, interiors and furniture. In this artistic movement, the pure line and the geometric proportion were sought. The approach was that the modern line is the simple line. There is a linear depuration of the different facets of the design.

It is an artistic current heiress of the British "Art and Craft". In Madrid there was an exhibition about this decorative movement that I visited recently and I liked it a lot. In that Expo I made some photos.

The "Art Deco" was the result of social and aesthetic changes, which occurred in the early years of the "twentieth century.
In the exhibition in Paris, original and original proposals were sought that had nothing to do with past styles.

Thus, in the interior design his proposal was to group the ornamentation only in specific places, maintaining the rest of the space with a neutral and simple character.
The decorative motifs were geometric and repetitive. Use patterns of pale shapes and colors.

The contract was very important in this artistic style. As an ornamental element, for example in jewelry, stones and metals of different colors and qualities, such as jet and crystal, were combined.

At that time, there was a taste for technical innovation, which was also a hallmark of the refined bourgeoisie, dazzled by a futuristic and functional design.

In this taste for contrast, metal chrome was added to the wood. Polished and shiny, lacquered surfaces were used a lot, as well as the use of mirrors.

If you look, these ideas are still used a lot today in our current decorative approaches.

In lighting there is a taste for large windows and to control and modulate so much light, the curtains and curtains were widely used. In the interiors, the light is with small lamps that help to create relaxed atmospheres.

The pure line, the geometric and aeronautical ratio is sought.
The modern line is the simple line.
Geometric shapes abound. The squares, triangles and circles are seen in many of the designs of this era.

There is a linear depuration of the different facets of the design.

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