Art deco competition 2025
3. 11. 2024
7th International Art Competition on the occasion of World Francophonie Day World Francophonie Day
The European Section of the Pavel Tigrid Language School in cooperation with the Embassy of France in the Czech Republic and the French Institute in Prague announces the 7th International Art Competition on the occasion of the Day of Francophonie and the 100th anniversary of the ART DECO art movement (1925–2025).
The style was named by the famous architect Le Corbusier, i.e. its opponent, who wrote a series of articles for the 1925 International Exhibition under the title 1925 EXPO. ARTS. DÉCO for his magazine L'Esprit Nouveau. The title is an abbreviation of the French Arts Décoratifs (decorative arts).
Competition categories:
I. 10–14 years (primary schools, elementary schools and multi-year grammar schools)
II. 15–19 years (secondary schools, multi-year grammar schools and high schools)
The three best entries in each category will be awarded. The three best art works will be divided into two categories:
I. drawing and graphics
II. painting
III. work with materials
Techniques:
Painting - tempera, watercolour, dry pastel, oil pastel, collage, animation, comics, collage - prolage, flylage, alchymage...
Drawing - coloured drawing, pen drawing, charcoal, red, pencil, marker...
Printmaking - linocut, drypoint, print from collage, monotype, can also be spatial works - ceramic, wire or paper sculpture, tracing, etc.
Works (max. in A2 format) should be sent to:
Pavel Tigrid Language School, Gustav Kliment 493/3, 708 00 Ostrava-Poruba, The Czech Republic.
On the reverse side of the competition work, please write legibly the following information:
￭ Category, age, author's name
￭ Name and exact address of the school (contact e-mail, telephone number of the author), title of the work including the name of the building that inspired it
￭ Name and surname of the teacher with whom the participant studies
Send spatial and transport-intensive artworks in the form of a high-quality photo (mobile phone is sufficient) in png or jpg format to the following e-mail address: art@jazgym.cz
The deadline for the competition is 5 March 2025 (the date of receipt of entries). The winners will be announced and prizes will be awarded on 16 April 2025 at 10:00 in the foyer of our school. The exhibition of the competition entries will be open to the public until 27 June 2025. Winners and nominees for the exhibition will be notified of their success by email in due course. A virtual gallery of winners and nominees will be posted on the school website on the day of the ceremony.
The organisers would like to thank everyone in advance for granting the right to use their work to promote the competition. Please note that artwork sent physically to the school address will not be returned.
Topic:
Capture the glitzy atmosphere of the art deco world - the world of The Great Gatsby based on the novel by F.S. Fitgerald, the world of Hercule Poirot's detective stories, the 1920s-30s, the age of jazz, the birth of the first movies, radio, ocean cruises and flights, luxury car companies, bold fashion combined with lavish parties, clubs, parties. You can find themes in art deco buildings, details of exteriors and interiors of buildings (staircases, entrances, building facades, sculptural decoration), art deco fashion - dresses, hats, hair cuts, accessories and jewellery, design - car brands, shapes of locomotives, planes and airships, applied art - furniture styles, interior decoration from wallpaper to windows and carpets, etc.
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Inspiration
For older ages (15-19) we recommend the 1984 American films Cotton Club by F.F. Coppola and The Great Gatsby from 2013 by B. Luhrmann. Also the detective series about the Belgian private detective Hercule Poirot, brilliantly portrayed by actor David Suchet. Recommended episodes: Murder on the Orient Express, Murder on Mews Street, The Third Floor Apartment, Murder on the Nile, etc. All the episodes perfectly recreate the atmosphere of the art deco flats, Poirot's Whitehaven Mansions flat itself, the fashion and clientele of the famous detective, who are an accurate expression of the art deco "upper ten thousand" era.