I am very pleased with how my Ex Libris turned out. For my piece I used Art Deco for my inspiration. I think that the rounded edges of the squares, the smooth curves of the stems, and the smooth curves of the pedals of the flowers all show the use of Art Deco. I also think Art Deco shows because all the squares are symmetrical in the piece.
My piece reminds me of something old and worn, but new and fun at the same time.
The background of my piece is a cool blue-grey color. Then the next layer contains different sized squares in brown. There is a long brown rectangle that goes from top to bottom of the left side of the piece. There are two small brown squares at the top left and bottom left. There are two medium sized brown rectangles to the right of each of the small squares. In the middle of the small squares (vertically) there is another medium sized brown square. In the middle of all of those squares there a two big squares that are also brown. The long brown rectangle that is located to the left of the piece also contains are large flower. The flower’s pedals are blue-gray and the inside circle of the flower is white. My initials are located right under this flower in the same blue-gray color as the flower. At the bottom of the long rectangle are the words Ex Libris. There are also four more flowers in my piece. These flowers have white pedals outlined in blue-gray, and the middle circle is blue-gray. The flowers are all located in a different brown square and have a stem that starts in a brown square and branches off to two different squares.
I really liked this project overall. I thought it was interesting and fun how we got to go research the background of Art Deco and Art Nouveau. It was interesting to learn the history behind each of them, and it was fun to look at examples of each. I thought it was interesting to see how both Art Deco and Art Nouveau are used to design many other things other than paintings or drawings, they are also used in architecture which I thought was very neat. I had a lot of fun working on this project and I am very pleased with the overall look and feel of my piece.
