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We know that style from Art Deco artistic which took place in the first decades of the 20th century, although its period of greatest boom and growth was the 1920s. Art Deco arose in the city of Paris but was present in several countries throughout Europe as well as in the United States and some South American countries. We find Art Deco works both in the painting like in the sculpture but mainly in the architecture.

Art Deco's fundamental elements are geometric shapes and simple, straight lines. Art Deco does not present exuberance and exaggeration as he did Art nouveau since the sociopolitical context of the interwar era was very complex and involved a search for simplicity and the most authentic forms rather than luxury and expense. However, although the forms are simpler and flatter, the interest in beauty and art they were never cast aside.

As stated, Art Deco sought to represent lines and shapes taken from the geometry; the more exact and defined, the better it would be. Among these geometric shapes it is common to find oblique rays or lines, circles, semicircular arches, rounded points, triangles, straight lines. While Art Deco also turned out to be very eye-catching, its style was not as exuberant or exaggerated and allowed one to truly observe the shapes below the decor.

Among the clearest examples of works belonging to Art Deco we can mention buildings such as the Chrysler of New York (the one that ends with triangles superimposed on semicircular arches and a large antenna), the Theater Paramount of California, the Kavannagh building in Buenos Aires (which has several columns of buildings that, however, do not stand out for their ornamentation).