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Women Have Been Depicted by Artists with Various Materials and Personas

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Throughout history women have been depicted by artists with various materials and personas. Architecture, oil paintings, and sculptures are just some of the popular and familiar mediums that we see today represented throughout our art galleries, civic centers, schools, and urban dwellings.

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The era of Art Decor was an eclectic time, that brought forth many changes in the art community. The ideas and concepts first began to flourish in the 1920's in France, and then?spread throughout the world over the next two-centuries.

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The emergence of women's independence began to shine bright in female based lighting interpretations. Their new grasp on their personal power was expressed with sensual figurines and light. Women holding a bright light within their hands was a symbol of power that women found within themselves and the arrival into a once male dominated world.

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Many of Art Deco's qualities came from its predecessor Art Nouveau, combining traditional craft motifs with Machine Age imagery and materials. The Art Deco style is often characterized by bold geometric shapes, lavish ornamentation, and rich colors. In its day Art Deco represented glamour, luxury, exuberant architectural inventions, and a faith in technological and social progress.

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Per Wikipedia: 'The historian Bevis Hillier defined Art Deco as "an assertively modern style [that] ran to symmetry rather than asymmetry, and to the rectilinear rather than the curvilinear; it responded to the demands of the machine and of new material [and] the requirements of mass production".'

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Source: Art Nouveau Bronze Lady Candelabra Lamp by Art Deco Decor

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