Art Deco Geometric Design
One of the things I love about my inner city neighbourhood is the fact that we have a wonderful diversity in beautiful architectural style of housing. Although housing from the mid 1800s exists in my area, over time it became more suburbanised, particularly with the arrival of the train and tram routes around the turn of the Twentieth Century, and then the extension of these as the Metroland of the 1920s and 30s sprung up. There are many streets that have heritage overlays on them. Therefore, there are some wonderful Art Deco style villas from the 1920s and 1930s that still have their original fences and gates.
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week.
This week the theme, “geometry” was chosen by GG, Greenstone Girl.
This low Art Deco brick wall with its triangular pinnacle and decorative brick panels and this cast iron gate with its geometric pattern seemed like perfect choices for the theme.
Art Deco is a European style that celebrated the exciting and dynamic aspects of the machine age. It was all about sleekness, sharp lines, and vivid decorative elements like fins, fans, speed lines, portal windows and low relief sculpture. There was also a drive towards the clean lines of geometry in design.
Geometry is the part of mathematics that studies the size, shapes, positions and dimensions of things. Squares, circles and triangles are some of the simplest shapes in flat geometry. Cubes, cylinders, cones and spheres are simple shapes in solid geometry.
Art Deco Geometric Design
One of the things I love about my inner city neighbourhood is the fact that we have a wonderful diversity in beautiful architectural style of housing. Although housing from the mid 1800s exists in my area, over time it became more suburbanised, particularly with the arrival of the train and tram routes around the turn of the Twentieth Century, and then the extension of these as the Metroland of the 1920s and 30s sprung up. There are many streets that have heritage overlays on them. Therefore, there are some wonderful Art Deco style villas from the 1920s and 1930s that still have their original fences and gates.
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week.
This week the theme, “geometry” was chosen by GG, Greenstone Girl.
This low Art Deco brick wall with its triangular pinnacle and decorative brick panels and this cast iron gate with its geometric pattern seemed like perfect choices for the theme.
Art Deco is a European style that celebrated the exciting and dynamic aspects of the machine age. It was all about sleekness, sharp lines, and vivid decorative elements like fins, fans, speed lines, portal windows and low relief sculpture. There was also a drive towards the clean lines of geometry in design.
Geometry is the part of mathematics that studies the size, shapes, positions and dimensions of things. Squares, circles and triangles are some of the simplest shapes in flat geometry. Cubes, cylinders, cones and spheres are simple shapes in solid geometry.