Normandie
Cassandre's poster for the ocean liner, seen from below like a monument.
A. M. Cassandre made the poster in 1935, when the French liner Normandie entered service. The ship was the largest and fastest of its time, and the poster turns it into a temple.
Cassandre reduced the subject to geometric forms and let the perspective carry the message. The poster is one of the best-known works of Art Deco.
Materials: Colour lithograph on paper
Manufacture: Printed in several editions and sizes.
The bow of the ship seen from below, so that it becomes enormous.
The small birds that show the scale.
Large areas of colour and almost no detail.