Art deco is the style that emerged to escape from the hardships of the post-war period, with all economic, political and social outcomes that people had to face. The style takes a viewer away from the sober reality into the magnificent world of luxury populated with beautiful and wealthy people living their easy and careless lives. The canvases are deliberately decorative, which is also characteristic of art nouveau. However, instead of natural flowing lines and floral ornaments featured by art nouveau paintings, art deco nudes are decorative due to dynamic and easy subjects, straight lines and regular geometric shapes gracefully falling into a streamlined composition. Art deco nudes do not seek to study a person: they neither reveal the inner world of the model, nor portray their fleeting emotions and typlical features as it is common with realism, romanticism, impressionism and other styles. Art deco opts for pleasurism, depicting life as a bed of roses, and the art deco type is a glorious young woman promising (mostly to herself) all kinds of pleasures right here, right now – the pleasures, though, being more of a narcistic than an erotic nature.