~ The Connection of Art and Fashion~

My structural of my research paper:

1) Art
Type of Art Movement

2) The Language of Contemporary Fashion

3) Exploring to Art in Fashion in 1850-1939
Art Nouveau
The way to identify Art Nouveau
Art Deco
The way to identify Art Deco
Futurism
The way to identify Futurism

4) Combination of Art into Contemporary Fashion
Art Nouveau
Art Deco
Futurism

Art

Art can be defined in many ways. Due to my research, I had chosen few definitions are easier to study as art is too wide.

What is art? Art can refer to a diverse range of human activities and artifacts and may be used to cover all or any of the arts, including music, literature and other forms. Art is also able to illustrate thought and its expressions can draw out previously hidden emotions in its audience. It is most often used to refer specifically to the visual arts which are including media such as painting, sculpture and printmaking.

Type of Art Movement
There are various different type of art movement in the late 19^th century and early 20^th century which are including Art Nouveau, Constructivism, Cubism, Art Deco, Modernism, Bauhaus and Futurism.

The Language of Contemporary Fashion
Clothing is a language which is a kind of communication through its symbol conveys much about the wearer to the viewer. Their clothing will make a statement that expresses their sex, age, status, occupation, origin and personality before people speak to one another. In the meanwhile, clothing will also convey that what they are or what they want to be at a particular moment. For example, a businessman is recognized in a well tailored suit.

Exploring to Art in Fashion in 1850-1939
In the late nineteenth-century fashion as we know is inspired by the avant-garde artists of the period to create an art form to counter commercial fashion. These avant-garde artists saw clothing not just a symbol of class distinction but also a force for shaping experience, looking for opportunity to make things new and going beyond the traditional boundaries of art.

Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau is also known as the “New Art” which is an artistic style freed from all illusionists, symbolic or representational function. It was influenced by Post-Impressionism. Art Nouveau is an international design movement that emerged and touched all of the design arts such as architecture, fashion, furniture, graphic and product design.

Art Nouveau movement started in Europe during the 1890s and the early 20^th century. Its defining characteristic was a sinuous curvilinear line. According to my research, Art Nouveau movement is richly with ornamental, characterized by curves and willowy lines includes an erotic nature such as feminine figures in light dresses, evanescent landscapes, ornamental details, floral patterns and decorative elements being elevated to central focus points.

Alphonse Mucha was a well known Czech painter, poster artist and designer who born in 1860. He contributed greatly to the Art Nouveau movement. He was well known in interwined and curved forms, depictions of wild plant life, and his expressions of women in paintings. Below was an art piece of a feminine figure by Mucha. The feminine figure in the art piece looks very erotic and nature in forms.

The way to identify Art Nouveau

Inspiration of Art Nouveau was come from natural forms to create organic foliate designs and curvilinear motifs. Basically, Art Nouveau used a simplified figurative style of illustration which is including mannered figures, floral motifs, whiplash lines, hyperbolas and parabolas of lines, drawn with characteristic heavy outlines.

Beside that, I also tried to identify Art Nouveau from architecture buildings such as buildings design and stained glasses design of doors and windows. I tried to analyze some examples of buildings such as building ornaments in Riga, staircase of the Maison & Atelier of Victor Horta and the Casa Batlló by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol.

Architecture

There is a lot of human figure, animal ornaments and floral and other plants forms.

Art Nouveau movement flowing was strongly felt in the interior of the town houses in Brussels. There are many of curvilinear motifs movement can be seen at the staircase.

The building was used with floral and organic forms to create Art Nouveau movement.

Stained Glass of doors & windows

Curvy floral forms were used on the stained glasses design. This gives erotic and aesthetic design to houses.

Art Deco
Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939. It was affecting the decorative arts in architecture, interior design, industrial design and visual arts such as fashion, painting, graphic arts and film. Art Deco was influenced by France. The movement of Art Deco is elegant, functional and modern in geometric shapes designs and bold colors.

Art Deco is a movement in design, interior decoration and architecture in 1920s and 30s in Europe and the U.S. which was influenced by Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, Cubist, Native American and Egyptian sources. Basically, the style of Art Deco is simple, clean shapes, often with a “streamlined” look, trapezium, zig-zag and ornament that are geometric or stylized from representational forms.

Early Art Deco (1911-1929)

Between 1911 and 1919, dress forms moved to a narrow, relaxed, almost semi-fitted silhouette reminiscent of the Directorie and Empire period. Although many women continued the habit of wearing corsets, the tubular clothing silhouette no longer required it. Hemlines also began to climb from ankle length in 1910 to mid-calf in 1919 and all the way up to the knee in 1925. The waistline essentially disappeared. Before 1919, it was high, just below the bust line but in 1920 it had settled at the hips.

Ankle length in 1910

mid-calf in 1919

Knee length in 1925

Late Art Deco (1930-1946)
During the early 1930s, hemlines dropped again to just above the ankles and no longer dresses were again in vogue for evening wear. For the evening wear, the bared back was the new erotic zone of replacing the legs of the 1920s.

Evening wear

Shirt dress

Trousers

Military looks

The way to identify Art Deco

I tried to identify Art Deco from the early century costumes as previous subtopic. On the other hand, another way to identify Art Deco movement is from architecture buildings design and stained glasses design of doors and windows.

The most famous example of the Art Deco movement is the Chrysler building in New York but the functional, simple and modernist style transferred to nearly all design disciplines.


Architecture

Chrysler building, New York

Rockefeller Center Angels, New York