drawing every day - day 2
I've been really fascinated by the visual arts of the Art Deco period lately - beyond just the architecture, but also how painters depicted folks. From what I was reading, many artists who got tired of doing Art Nouveau eventually transitioned into the Art Deco style - moving from the flat coloration and complex natural patterns into simplifying into much stronger shapes and details, but not to the level of abstraction or simplification of Cubism.
I was trying to imitate a study by Tamara de Lempicka, a Polish artist that was influential in this period - was really drawn by how she depicted people in this sort of simplified and hard-edged but still realistically recognizable way - and was not afraid to lean heavily into using black to define shadows.
La Belle Rafaela , ca. 1920–1929
Tamara de Lempicka (Polish, 1898–1980)
