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T TIKIGIKI Tiki Socialite Australia Joined: Aug 18, 2022 Posts: 452	T TIKIGIKI Posted posted on Tue, Sep 27, 2022 3:24 PM So much of the wall decorations you show seem to have been directly based on the set designs for The Ballet Russes by Léon Bakst, who worked from 1909 onward. The wild colours colours, primitive drawing style and exuberant "exoticism" became extremely influential for so many things from ceramics, women's clothing and interior decoration. Bakst's work, together with that of the concurrent Fauves painting movement with their wild brush work and strident colours, and their subject matter's high degree of simplification and abstraction, became a major source for European and American designers. Here is just one example of a Bakst background where the similarity to the work you show above is plainly evident. [ Edited by TIKIGIKI on 2022-09-27 20:05:01 ]

So much of the wall decorations you show seem to have been directly based on the set designs for The Ballet Russes by Léon Bakst, who worked from 1909 onward. The wild colours colours, primitive drawing style and exuberant "exoticism" became extremely influential for so many things from ceramics, women's clothing and interior decoration. Bakst's work, together with that of the concurrent Fauves painting movement with their wild brush work and strident colours, and their subject matter's high degree of simplification and abstraction, became a major source for European and American designers. Here is just one example of a Bakst background where the similarity to the work you show above is plainly evident. art_09_15

[ Edited by TIKIGIKI on 2022-09-27 20:05:01 ]

Post #805770 by TIKIGIKI on Tue, Sep 27, 2022 3:24 PM