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DeTrixsta In reply to BOYDEX [2015-04-26 01:42:16 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for this wonderful information! Yes! The Lord Kitchener posters from WW1 are very dramatic & effective. Perhaps it was a subliminal influence on me, because I produced the short gangster film I called "1930" & I stole from everywhere! Not to say it wasn't original, but I am so influenced by Hollywood films of 1920's, 30's & beyond. There were bound to be some cliche's, but I seem to have this strange connection to the past I cannot explain. My film was a student project & did win an award for the "most original" in a college festival. 

J. Montgomery Flagg was a commercial artist & apart from the famous Uncle Sam version of the recruit poster, he did various magazine covers & advertising works, he seemed to thrive & his work turned up everywhere,  just before Norman Rockwell became well known!
As for the renaissance works you mention--- oh my, I had no idea. It's very interesting & I knew you were a man of  high cultural tastes! I just wish we could meet someday! You can culture me & perhaps I in turn, can corrupt you!
I certainly will look this up,  so I can compare--- All Very interesting!

As for poor Marilyn... She sang a racy version of "Happy Birthday" to "Mr. President" (Kennedy) & within one year of that event, both were dead & I hardly think it was a coincidence. I can point to no greater example of the great American way. You can do or say anything you want; as long as you do or say as you are told.....  

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BOYDEX In reply to DeTrixsta [2015-04-26 09:29:45 +0000 UTC]

 Visual Art have a lot examples for comparisons. For example the famoust picture by Edouard Manet "breakfast on the grass" composition of people for this picture took from Marcantonio Raimondi "Judgement of Paris"and he took this composition of people from relief the "river gods " of Roman sarcophagus ( III century). Even here, in DA, before I saw same poses with nude guys made by one DA autor ( I am sory I forgot his nick name).And for me it is not copy - it is just inspiration for new way of art because artist see inspiration in overall around and he ( she) want to Overall around on own way.

 I like 20s-30s style too. Especially ART DECO in architecture and interior designthat is reason why I noticed your art .After boring and conventional rigid way of life from epoch before it-this epohe gave something fresh and free idea and style in life, fashion,art.... patric i would like to see your short movie.is it possible to se it on You tube?? or somewhere...? You must be proud with this early success -continue on this way with your talent I am shure that future can be yours.

  Will be nice meet each other, whoknow?? the World is not so big.

  Thank you so much for compliments and high opinion about me,you are kind a lot, but I think that is usual that grown people know about cultural history.

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DeTrixsta In reply to BOYDEX [2015-04-30 04:42:46 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!!
I agree & find it fascinating when you can point to a work of art & link it's inception to a direct inspiration. I feel everything seems to have been inspired by someone or something else & I generally often ask myself; "How did this come to be--?"  

I was told I have an interest in the Genesis of such things! It's good to know!
thank you.

Yes, Art Deco! It seems to have burst upon the scene in the 1920's but by the 1960's it would be considered outdated! Those that grew up with it, don't seem to appreciate it in the same way we might. I yearned for things to have such style & look interesting. How nice & pleasing to the eye the cubism modernistic approach was. By the mid 1930's thing were "streamlined" & very modern-looking for that time. "Chrome, steel & sex-appeal" were words from a 1930 song called "Do The New York"....

I have not been able to load my movie to you tube yet... I am a step closer, however. I purchased a device that plugs into tape/camera device & allows you to easily upload in a format that can be shared on the internet. So I hope to do so in the near future. I just never seem to have enough time!
Two of the young men in the film now have children of their own & it would be something to share with them!

 The world is not so big. Yes, this makes me smile a lot! One never knows, dose one?
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BOYDEX In reply to DeTrixsta [2015-04-30 10:12:27 +0000 UTC]

 I am glad that we have the same interests.

Art Deco as an eclectic style represents Machine age in formes, colors, materils...It was accepted style because AD was includes traditional elegant trade but with new geometric shapes on lavish way. It was looking very interesting and fresh and popular too because it is show progress  of Machinery and glorified Machinery too-unlike of flamboyant Art Nouuveau with organic motives.

Step by step AD get little bit rounded form and on the end it was modity in an early aerodynamic shape (40s and early 50s)

I like late 50s and 60 s style too. In fashion as first-it was the best way for cloting for men and women, started with new LOOK by Christian Dior.It was very elegant way, gave the impression of glamor and elegance on every visual step of life.Thay all looking rich,happy as with some sugars-daub.

 Furniture of early 60s, my favorite to was very very practical( takong apart, overlap...) i nice fresh pastel colors, even today that that furniture is very attractive and practical for modern space. Many new furniture today lok like furniture from early 60s with little bit different materijal, forms,colors.

summary : Art Deco start vith something new in space of architecture, fashion...and life style. Abstinent line, practic and comfortable but beauty too-it was very very new in human eyes and vanguard for that time after classical form.After I WW everybady was fill boring with classical way of life, architecture design, fashion....AD was open all avant-garde way for future.

 I am glad that we meet here and that we discuss about that.

 I wish so much a lot succes with presentation with your movie.I would like tosee it very much, i am shure your friends too and many athers.I am shure that it willbe today more interesting after few years sleaping in past.

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DeTrixsta In reply to ajax1946 [2015-04-16 15:38:42 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!
rac-focus or "push-pull" focus.... You see things like that in movies & TV... makes sure your attention is drawn to a specific point..

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ajax1946 In reply to DeTrixsta [2015-04-17 17:36:00 +0000 UTC]

Very neat!

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DeTrixsta In reply to Light-Weaver [2015-04-14 00:19:47 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! It was like that in the film too, use of rac-focus led from him (then softens), to the barrell in sharp contrast... an "uh-oh" moment in the story!

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