Abstrakt
Cubism was associated by artists in Bohemia with an ambitious project of a universal new art that would penetrate all spheres of modern man's everyday life. Despite the sophistication of the cubist aesthetic, which in Bohemia targeted virtually all artistic genres, this vision of a great modern style remained an unfulfilled utopia.
A similar fate befell cubist art forms in France when they attempted to penetrate the field of applied art and design in the 1920s. At the Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes in Paris in 1925, the expected total occupation of the terrain of everyday life by cubist works did not take place.
Where cubism attempted to do so on this occasion, decorativism prevailed, transforming its forms into a very differently oriented art deco.