Editing Art Deco (section)

==Painting==
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File:Mural-Ariel-Rios-Marsh-1.jpg|''Workers sorting the mail'', a mural in the Ariel Rios Federal Building, [[Washington, D.C.]], by [[Reginald Marsh (artist)|Reginald Marsh]] (1936)
File:Mural-Ariel-Rios-Rockwell-Kent-1.jpg|''Art in the Tropics'', mural in the [[William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building]], Washington, D.C., by [[Rockwell Kent]] (1938)
File:Entrance of Rockefeller Center.JPG|Detail of ''Time'', ceiling mural in lobby of [[30 Rockefeller Plaza]] in [[New York City]], by [[Josep Maria Sert]] (1941)
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There was no section set aside for painting at the 1925 Exposition. Art deco painting was by definition decorative, designed to decorate a room or work of architecture, so few painters worked exclusively in the style, but two painters are closely associated with Art Deco. Jean Dupas painted Art Deco murals for the Bordeaux Pavilion at the 1925 Decorative Arts Exposition in Paris, and also painted the picture over the fireplace in the Maison du Collectionneur exhibit at the 1925 Exposition, which featured furniture by Ruhlmann and other prominent Art Deco designers. His murals were also prominent in the décor of the French ocean liner [[SS Normandie|SS ''Normandie'']]. His work was purely decorative, designed as a background or accompaniment to other elements of the décor.<ref>Louis René Vian, ''Les Arts décoratifs à bord des paquebots français'', Éditions Fonmare, 1992</ref>

The other painter closely associated with the style is [[Tamara de Lempicka]]. Born in Poland, she emigrated to Paris after the [[Russian Revolution]]. She studied under [[Maurice Denis]] and [[André Lhote]], and borrowed many elements from their styles. She painted portraits in a realistic, dynamic and colourful Art Deco style.<ref>Blondel, Alain (1999). ''Tamara de Lempicka: a Catalogue Raisonné 1921–1980''. Lausanne: Editions Acatos.</ref>

In the 1930s, a dramatic new form of Art Deco painting appeared in the United States. During the Great Depression, the [[Federal Art Project]] of the [[Works Progress Administration]] was created to give work to unemployed artists. Many were given the task of decorating government buildings, hospitals and schools. There was no specific Art Deco style used in the murals; artists engaged to paint murals in government buildings came from many different schools, from American regionalism to [[social realism]]; they included [[Reginald Marsh (artist)|Reginald Marsh]], [[Rockwell Kent]] and the Mexican painter [[Diego Rivera]]. The murals were Art Deco because they were all decorative and related to the activities in the building or city where they were painted: Reginald Marsh and Rockwell Kent both decorated U.S. postal buildings, and showed postal employees at work while Diego Rivera depicted automobile factory workers for the [[Detroit Institute of Arts]]. Diego Rivera's mural ''[[Man at the Crossroads]]'' (1933) for [[30 Rockefeller Plaza]] featured an unauthorized portrait of [[Lenin]].<ref>Balfour, Alan (1978). Rockefeller Center: Architecture as Theater. McGraw-Hill, Inc., p. 311, {{ISBN|978-0-070-03480-8}}</ref><ref name="enotes">{{cite web|url=http://www.enotes.com/poetry-criticism/macleish-archibald |title=Archibald MacLeish Criticism |publisher=Enotes.com |access-date=8 December 2011}}</ref> When Rivera refused to remove Lenin, the painting was destroyed and a new mural was painted by the Spanish artist [[Josep Maria Sert]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/city-college-san-francisco-pan-american-unity-mural-san-francisco-ca/ |title=City College of San Francisco: Rivera Mural – San Francisco CA|website=The Living New Deal |publisher=Department of Geography, [[University of California, Berkeley]] |access-date=15 June 2015 }}</ref><ref>Atkins, Robert (1993). ''ArtSpoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1848–1944''. [[Abbeville Publishing Group|Abbeville Press]]. {{ISBN|978-1-55859-388-6}}.</ref><ref name="WPA Art Recovery Project">{{cite web |url=https://www.gsaig.gov/index.cfm/other-documents/other/works-progress-administration-wpa-art-recovery-project/ |title=Works Progress Administration (WPA) Art Recovery Project |publisher=[[Office of the Inspector General]], General Services Administration |access-date=13 June 2015 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919064231/https://www.gsaig.gov/index.cfm/other-documents/other/works-progress-administration-wpa-art-recovery-project/ |archive-date=19 September 2015 }}</ref>