Art Deco - Louis Lozowick

Art Deco design represented modernism turned into fashion, the movement was all about elegance and luxury. The intention of most products was for the wealthy and sophisticated and set to symbolise power and authority. The style was very much created by modernists as a reaction against Art Nouveau style. As well as elegance the style used angular, symmetrical geometric shapes. Art Deco lived greatly in America as a fresh style of life, the movement speed to architecture, film, fashion, furniture and so much more.  Much of the work were geometric decals as in trims and add ons. 

Lozowick was a painter and print maker, he focused on making lithographs of cities. He did this from inspiration of El Lissitsky and began to sketch American cities. He was a fan of the new machine age aesthetic and developed writings of the process. He liked to develop the idea of cities being futuristic fortresses, he enjoyed the urban geometry of the modern metropolis. 

His work is executed to a great standard and the image use of light and dark makes the image almost like an illusion of sorts. I like the geometric shapes that illustrate the movement and the life of the city. He defines the strong parts of the city and depicts the landscape as powerful.