Thank you for explaining the difference. I'll remember Art Nouveau as influenced by nature while Art Deco is not afraid of embracing the industrialization.

I didn’t realize Art Nouveau was a response to (against) the Industrial Revolution. Great video.

Art Nouveau is organic, inspired in nature, highly decorative, feminine and definitely not geometric. Art Deco is geometric with straight lines, sharp angles, and geometric curves. It is masculine. It can be highly decorated or simpler.

Art Deco fan all the way (especially when it comes to jewelry), although I really do appreciate much of the Art Nouveau architecture.

Thank you! You have an amazing gift to simplify more complex ideas!

I grew up on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx which is the avenue with the most Art Deco buildings in the World. I love this style. I see Art Nouveau as being more floral in its lines and its color schemes as well. Art Deco to me seems like a distillation of many elements, Cubism, Futureism. It has the straight lines of Wright's architecture, but an influence of the curvatures of Nouveau. I also see in a lot of it a strong influence of the geometric lines of Egyptian and Aztec architecture, as well as Mesopotamian styles. It really was a very eclectic style. As for the aesthetics, when it's good, it wonderful, and when it's not........ I think it's one of those things you either love it or hate it.

Soooo beneficial. I came confused. Left enlightened & well informed!

Well that was just super. Clear, concise and fun. I just wandered here by chance. I'm glad I did.

I really appreciate you sharing your thoughts on this. Thank You.

Great video, loved your "Jazz Age" inflection, lol.

VERY good explanation. I never knew this! Thanks for putting this together.

Thanks Spencer, I really enjoyed your examples and love both art deco and art nouveau with a slight emphasis on nouveau. I would describe it as the more organic of the two styles. We have some lovely art deco in Australia.

Short and on point! Thanks.

Really good explanation, thank you!

Great demonstration! Thank you so much!!

thank you for sharing this! it has been really beneficial for me i truly understand now

Thanks! I've got a 'Resistant Materials' exam tomorrow and I need to incorporate this type of design into a product, cheers.

Very nicely done! Thanks

Thank you so much! This is really helpful. I subscribed.

Thank you for the awesome video and information. Liked and subscribing. Cheers.

Thank you!! I love both styles.

Thank you so much for your video. Subscribed!

Thanks so much for this. I have learned a lot.

You did a pretty good job describing both styles and contrasting them. Art Nouveau was inspired by natural lines: feminine curves (including nudity), snakes, vines and tendrils. It tended to scandalize the middle class, especially in the English speaking world, with how "decadent" it was. Most Art Nouveau buildings are found in European cities as a result. Art Deco was inspired by geometric shapes (circles, straight lines, triangles and rectangles) and especially the shiny surfaces that could be obtained by machining. Geometric sunburst designs (like on the top of the Chrysler building) were particularly popular. It was much more acceptable to the middle class because it was more subtly seductive than frankly sexy. It was considered futuristic at the time, though looking back on it today it looks quite dated. Most US cities have at least some Art Deco buildings, even if they are just gas stations, diners, and theaters, but probably not any Art Nouveau.

Very clear and informative, thank you.

I think of Art Nouveau is feminine, impressionistic, representational. Art Deco is masculine, simple, linear. Both abstracted and not realistic, both stemming from the Arts and Crafts movement.

Im a big fan of art deco i just love the architecture

Wonderful explanation. Thank you!!!

Very helpful video. Thanks!

thank you for your comments. i'm certainly not an expert in art or design; these videos are part of my own endeavour to increase my understanding of unfamiliar topics, so i appreciate your suggestions. and you've identified some beautiful examples of art deco that I encourage other viewers to explore.

Thank you!

I love Art Deco .The sleek shapes are very pleasing esthetically. The Chrysler building is a monument to Art Deco

thank you you simplified it so much too me

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I need to express my gratitude to you for helping me move into and grow in a new career. If you're looking for topics for discussion, I would love to see some things of primitivism and naive art. Cheers!

please could you tell me the names of the objects in the pictures of art nouveau? .. I have to do a research on art nouveau in France, and I find this a very interesting video

Thanks for your expert appraisement.

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It's a dream of mine to own a big art nouveau/late Victorian looking building in Manhattan or mainland Europe (I live in the uk)

Fantastic job! Beautiful examples. Can you tell me what & where is the gorgeous building @2:26, please? Right after the Chrysler building. Thank you!

very approaching vedio keep it up

I think the distinction between these two different types of architecture/design is tremendously important and I’m sure that the vast majority of the population has no idea what they’re looking at let alone any concept of the social importance. We were very fortunate to have lived in Europe for eight years and we had plenty of art nouveau especially in Barcelona

I enjoyed that, thank you X

Well, that was enlightening!

Art Deco spanned the period of from 1920 right up into 1950. "Authoritarian Modern" then began it's rampage of destruction right through the 1980s. Following the design sterilization age of Authoritarian Modern, we have the gradual emergence of Post Modern Retro. The New Century, and New Millennium, have given us a new design movement: One could call this Computer Graphic Design Age, or something else?

Très jolie!!

Very good thank you.

THanks! Nice prep for exam :)

where is the building of the minute 3:03?

Love both.

Thanks! It's been pretty instructive! :) Besides, you've got a nice voice ;)

Beautiful

Good way to show the difference in the two styles , if its Steampunk then its Art Nouveau , if its Noir then its Art Deco

Très interesant!

Thank You !!

I would like to see objects that you would have trouble categorizing as either nouveau or deco.

I'm surprised you missed the reflective symmetry in some of your own slides

I'm a little partial to Deco, but both styles are amazing.

wonderful film....

Thanks I was watching "There's Something About Mary", Matt Dillon's character had a lucky guess.

saw the most beautiful art nouveau furniture in the musée d'orsay :)

thnx mate :)

thnk you, keep it up:)

I love art deco best.

So Art Nouveau is more of a fluid, Orgainic style that tried to utilize circular, round and parabolic shapes, and artists at the time tried to follow this style to go against the more mechanical, inorganic, rigid and angular styles of machinery found in the Industrial Revolution? Meanwhile the Art Deco style is embracing that Industrialization by building off of angular, geometric, and inorganic shapes? If that is true, I'm guessing the thing that they are bound by is the similarity that they both suggest movement, just in different ways. Nouveau seems to use organic lines and curvy shapes, reminiscient of (like you said) a vine or plant-life. Meanwhile Art Deco eliminates all similarities to nature in being imperfect shapes, but instead utilizes symmetrical and semi angular ones, still with the use of a curve. Like you said, they seem more 'streamline' in which they take a rigid shape (a 2-d representaion of a line/ a line with width) , but curve it and slope it around a structure. So, let me get this straight: Nouveau - Organic, winding lines forming curvy, unique shapes Deco - Inorganinc, straight lines bending to form curves over a rigid, square, uniform structure. Right? (Please, any more info or tips would be greatly appreciated, I'm working on a personal art-project with these concepts. :)

Try Arts & Crafts next!

Erte's art is a great example of art nouveau The Golden Gate bridge is a good example of art deco.

I came across this video while trying to find out more about art deco after Mumbai's Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensemble made it to the UNESCO world heritage list. They call Mumbai's art deco Indo Deco because of the Indian influences in it.

Love art deco

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Dad would have loved New York.

Great Video. Methinks Art Nouveau is Feminine. Whereas Art Deco is Masculine.

Art Nouveau all the way

Actually, art nouveau is full of symmetry. It contains frieze symmetry, rotational symmetry, and tessellation .

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Art deco looks more utilitarian in my opinion with much stronger/rigid lines

Art deco is about speed, movement and bold lines.

Ohmygod beautiful voice *_*

"?" The speakers attitude towards Deco - odd and odd Opinion of Deco as old fashioned, compared to Nouveau, that's opposite of reality - it is the definition of the Modern Movement and towards the "Modern, MidCentury, and all foundations we use a defining Modern and Classic Modern". I can never think of the Chrysler Building or Empire State Building as old-fashioned. They are the Pyramids of the 20th Century. Frank Lloyd Wright - old fashioned - ha - nope! Jazz and Django Reinhardt are still hip! "?"

But isn't the Eiffel Tower Art Deco? Also Art Deco went through the 1940's, I believe?

Art Nouveau = Europe Art Deco = USA

i dont know how i ended up here.

Both are more beauty and has its own identity, very diferent case of art of nowadays that has no meaning at all. Just the most generic thing ever used in architeture and art in general.

Art Nouveau = Elves Art Deco = Dwarves

Americans "use to be the fearless explorers and innovators, thus the cutting-edge in Modern" Deco is More Modern, however I can understand now - the speaker's opinion - being of a younger generation - he associates (more designs found in the USA equivalent to old fashioned - as that would be the case in a today's building reality) The MS News Media has been working on the public's thought-reality, a long time now - We only truly know, what we see live and the remainder is all woven with opinions, edits, missing facts, half truths, advertising, and threads of ideas to achieve the Owners - (scary reality) "Rothschild owns and/or controls it all and the Federal Reserve That's- the •Communications/Information and the •Currency/Money 2 most powerful tools for control

pretty easy .. art nouveau (jugendstil) wonderful and beautiful .. art deco: american styled crap without skill just big and straight ..

Thanks! I've got a 'Resistant Materials' exam tomorrow and I need to incorporate this type of design into a product, cheers.