Tamara Łempicka, better known as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of nudes.
Lempicka in Paris, ca. 1931
Łempicka in her atelier, National Museum, Kraków
Façade of 7, rue Méchain, her Paris studio
Lempicka's bust in Kielce, Poland
Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s, and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s. Through styling and design of the exterior and interior of anything from large structures to small objects, including how people look, Art Deco has influenced bridges, buildings, ships, ocean liners, trains, cars, trucks, buses, furniture, and everyday objects including radios and vacuum cleaners.
Image: Chrysler Building 1 (4684845155)
Image: Chicago world's fair, a century of progress, expo poster, 1933, 2
Image: Victoire 2 by Rene Lalique Toyota Automobile Museum
Table and chairs by Maurice Dufrêne and carpet by Paul Follot at the 1912 Salon des artistes décorateurs
