ART DECO COLORS
A friend dissolved his family's estate last year and it was enormous comprised of a century of collecting. He had lived with all this stuff for so long that he responded by paring it all down to just a few things and of all the thousands of objects he could have taken he chose this rare suite of twenty plates that exemplify art deco color and design in Paris circa 1921.
He had the plates archivally framed and they form an incredible gallery. Each plate has a number of sections - or decorative schemes. This would have been an invaluable guide for artists and designers. It's a revelation about this period especially in the use of incredibly rich color which are as fresh today as they were 86 years ago.
Pochoir is the meticulous print-making art of stenciling. Some of these plates have up to twenty colors so each stencil was applied and then the color needed to dry before the next color would be applied. Excuse the flash spots.
1 comment:
Thanks for the lead. Love these colors and patterns. This is NOT what people normally think of when they hear the word "stencil"
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