Art Deco

Geometric streamlining: forms reduced to clean planes, arcs, chevrons, stepped ziggurat profiles and concentric ray-bursts. Uniform, confident outline weight close to poster line; broad flat colour areas with crisp edges. Palette of metallic gold, deep jade and emerald, black, ivory and warm cream. Smooth matte-to-satin surfaces with fine linear hatching or banded tone for shading rather than painterly gradients. Strong symmetry and vertical emphasis, decorative fans and rays radiating behind the subject; simplified, elegant, poster-flattened anatomy.