The Roaring Twenties

The decade of the 1920s appears to tower over almost any other decade of the last 100 or so years. Western society ended the 1800's with the first signs that the decorative arts were about to break out from the repressiveness of the Victorian period with the emergence of the art nouveau movement. The West was about to enter the “Modern Age”. Following on from the First World War, women cut their hair and raised their hemlines, kicked up their heels and stretched their wings in a movement that was to see them dubbed "The Flappers" after the illustration of one such woman as a butterfly on the cover of a 1922 edition of Life Magazine. Despite the backlash against modernization in the form of Prohibition, both women and men roared into the Twenties with an energy and tumultuousness that was paralleled by a booming stock market. Little did anyone suspect that the decade would end with the great Wall Street crash of October 1929 and the Great Depression of the early 1930’s.

ArikiArt artists Dene Croft and Juan Coronado have both painted artworks that feature 1920’s themes. We know there is great interest in the 1920’s and the fashions of the flappers by the amount of traffic we get to these pages at ArikiArt.com, and for this reason we have launched a 1920’s Store in conjunction with Amazon.com, featuring the life and fashions of the flappers, the decorative arts of the art deco and art nouveau periods, and the general history of the time. If your interest is in the life and times of The Roaring Twenties, then browse our 1920’s store for a wide range of fascinating books covering all aspects of the 1920’s.

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