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I don’t really know much about art but aren’t dwarves more like brutalism?
Dwarves still have decoration, both in their craft and in their style. Braids, carving, etc. Brutalism does not have the intricate design dwarves seem to. It’s all big and blocky.
It depends a lot on your setting, obviously, but dwarves are specifically known for going above and beyond on craftsmanship.
Yeah, at least for the dwarves that I imagine they’re not just about efficiency and quality but they really want things to look interesting and intricate. (Not that brutalism can’t be interesting but it is not finely detailed/intricate like dwarf work.)
One thing I love about art deco is that it is not self-conscious. That’s how you can get stuff like this:
(A beard to impress any dwarf! Also, when I first saw it I thought he was zapping the viewer with two lightning bolts but he’s actually holding a compass.)
Zeus if he was a jojo character
Gnomes are art deco and dwarves are neoclassical
I’ve always used art-deco designs when working on my gnome inventions in DnD… it’s a little wrong for proper steampunk stuff, (no steam engines in DnD) but a mixture of clockwork and art-deco makes for some really great designs.
Gnomes are steampunk/cyberpunk depending on the setting. Dwarves are art deco
Yes, but steam/cyber punk are not architecture they are fashion
An important distinction is this is Machine Age Art Deco. Earlier Art Deco was more like tidier Art Nouveau.
supposedly the latter is more specifically called streamline moderne
