Month: December 2021

As the invasion of Belgium began, Ball became very distraught and disillusioned with the war because he felt as if he was helpless and couldn’t do anything about the current situation. The trauma that the war brought onto Ball caused him to conjure up the idea that we are no more than cogs in a fighting machine, which later inspired a lot of his artwork. His readymade and found object art complemented his other artistic works in his poetry. His poetry work’s nonsensical and ironic feelings helped pave the way for the Dada movement. His performances successfully articulated the movement’s radical nihilism and iconoclastic ideology.

In either case, the intention was to produce a sleek and anti-traditional refinement that symbolized wealth and elegance. The distinctive features of the style are simple, clean shapes, often with a streamlined look, and unusually varied, often costly materials, which often include manufactured substances in complement to natural ones. Though Art Deco objects were infrequently mass-produced, the distinctive features of the style reflected respect for the modernity of the machine and the innate design qualities of machine-made things. Although this style was no longer relevant in most places during World War II, starting in the late 1960s, there was a revitalized interest in Art Deco design. Into the 21st century, Art Deco persisted in being a source of inspiration in such areas as decorative art, fashion, and jewelry design.