Jeannette
OK, Art Majors -- Educate Me
Put another way: if an artist strives to create a work that replicates the stylistic elements of art movement X, can we not then call it X, even if the "heyday" of movement X occurred sometime long ago? If I paint something that can't be distinguished stylistically from, say, a PreRaphaelite painting, do I still have to come up with a different name for the "style" because the dominant PreRaphaelite wave of painters dried up sometime in the early 20th century, according to the art history books?
Or, danubhe, are you just asking the question of whether there were many tarot decks done in the 20s and 30s (and if there were, did they have an Art Deco "bent" to them)?
-- Jeannette
The Tarot Garden
If something exactly replicates the Art Deco style (I'm not saying that Folchi's "Erte" does this -- it always looked very Erte-like to me, but I admit to not having a trained eye for such things), are you saying that it's not Art Deco unless it was also done during the officially-designated "Art Deco" period of the 20s and 30s?danubhe said:Oh - & as a "homage", I'm afraid that the 1987 Erte doesn't count. I'm looking "period", once again.
Put another way: if an artist strives to create a work that replicates the stylistic elements of art movement X, can we not then call it X, even if the "heyday" of movement X occurred sometime long ago? If I paint something that can't be distinguished stylistically from, say, a PreRaphaelite painting, do I still have to come up with a different name for the "style" because the dominant PreRaphaelite wave of painters dried up sometime in the early 20th century, according to the art history books?
Or, danubhe, are you just asking the question of whether there were many tarot decks done in the 20s and 30s (and if there were, did they have an Art Deco "bent" to them)?
-- Jeannette
The Tarot Garden