| Archaic |
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Archaic. In Greek art, the period с 700—480 вс, especially in sculpture, e.g. the kouroi and korai (nude youths and draped girls) from the Acropolis. Figures are stiff and formalized (Egyptian influence) gradually becoming more naturalistic. In vase painting the a. period includes Corinthian, Attic black-figure and the earliest red-figure, in 1 architecture early Doric (e.g. Paestum) and early Ionic (e.g. 1st temple of Artemis at Ephesus). Kleobis and Biton, kouroi of the Archaic period, c. 580 B.C. Held at the Delphi Archaeological Museum.
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| Art Deco |
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Art Deco. Descriptive term applied to a style of decorative arts that was widely disseminated in Europe and the USA during the 1920s and 1930s. Derived from the style made popular by the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes held in Paris in 1925, the term has been used only since the late 1960s, when there was a revival of interest in the decorative arts of the early 20th century. Since then the term ‘Art Deco’ has been applied to a wide variety of works produced during the inter-war years, and even to those of the German Bauhaus. But Art Deco was essentially of French origin, and the term should, therefore, be applied only to French works and those from countries directly influenced by France. d'Erte Cleopatra
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