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With her portraits of red-lipped women painted like sculptures in resplendent jewel tones, the Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka has posthumously become an Art Deco icon. Her figures are sumptuous ...

Art Deco had a powerful impact on fashion and coincided ... “It was a new, contemporary style that was popular among active, free-spirited women who were free from old conventions,” the ...

But the key Lempicka painting in the show is likely her work Young Woman In Green, which Rinaldi called an “emblematic image” of Art Deco. That work, he said, “encapsulates the optimism ...

The interwar period saw the emergence of the liberated woman, in search of a modern and daring style reflecting her new spirit. At the same time, the Art Deco movement was born, blooming during ...

When it burst onto the international scene 100 years ago this week, Art Deco epitomized all that was modern and sophisticated. "Sunday Morning" anchor Jane Pauley reports on a museum exhibition ...

His aesthetic principles, however, are nothing new. In 2021 he posted “I love Art Deco” on Twitter; in July 2023, nine months after he acquired the social-media platform, he gave it a ...

A libertine, she also had many love affairs with both men and women. Lempicka continued to work most of her life (including work with still lifes and abstract art), even though Art Deco fell out ...

"The art deco approach to design matched the modernity ... understood the importance of collaboration. "In Meière's time, women were not routinely afforded large mural commissions," noted Heller.