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The Deetz's artwork

posted 10 years ago by Remy_Azhary
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I'm interested to know what is the style of artwork that Deetz's incorporated into their home architecture and interior design. Were they known as modern abstract, art-nouveou, avant-garde or postmodernism?

[–] ckmsaxophone 10 years ago

I'd guess avant-garde with a Gothic twist.

"I must express myself." - Delia Deetz

[–] hollywood24-7 10 years ago

Definitely! I'd add abstract and contemporary. There are also elements of Tim Burton's signature German Expressionist-inspired style. The house's exterior looks postmodern.

[–] la-voiee-lactee 10 years ago

Neo-Expressionism. It was a real art movement that was huge in 80's NYC (e.g. Jean Michael Basquiat) there was an actual furniture exhibition in 1981 called Mobile Infinito that looks like a lot of the furniture in the film, and I have it on good authority that the pieces were bought up by psuedo-intellectual poseurs.

[–] [email protected] 9 years ago

To me it had a real post-modern vibe - see the Memphis Group line of furniture from the 1980s:
http://gizmodo.com/why-a-once-hated-1980s-design-movement-is-making-a-come-1602111413