Introduction to Art Nouveau
The "Art Nouveau" ("new art") movement was one of the first departures from classical art and design, towards a new modernism. The 'Modernism' and Art Nouveau movements occurred during what was known in France as the "Belle Époque," or "beautiful era" period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement was primarily influenced by the radical work of Czech (Moravian) artist Alfons Mucha, Swiss decorative artist Eugène Grasset, and English illustrator Aubrey Beardsley ("The Peacock Skirt”) and the ground-breaking architecture and design work of Hector Guimard of Paris and Antoni Gaudí of Barcelona.
The Art Nouveau movement focussed heavily on the themes of nature, fantasy, and the female form, with
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In particular because of the art gallery "La Maison de l'Art Nouveau", which was opened as a showroom for the new art by a Japanese art collector, Siegfried Bing.
All the Art Nouveau artists were largely reacting against the Classic aesthetic, a style described as often "fussy and inhibited." They found a freeing vocabulary in natural and organic forms. The movement's signature motif was the S-curve, which might be found in a flower's stem on a brooch or the trail of smoke from a cigarette depicted in a theater poster.
The Art Nouveau artists were not shy about the naked body, contrary to their predecessors, and the Art Nouveau style is often described as a feminine one. But some Art Nouveau was also geometric as the forms designed by Wiener Werkstatte and Josef Hoffmann.
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Diamond ring GRACEFUL OLD CUTS
OPAL PEARLS CHAIN
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In the 1920's Art Deco was a popular form of art. It also influenced architecture, fashion, and furniture. Art Deco used bold geometric shapes and strong colors. It used concrete, smooth stone, and terracotta as materials. Art Deco represented modernism and a bright future.
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In mature form, its spatial structure resembled that of synthetic cubism. Generalized as a cultural aesthetic, it called for the evolution and refinement of type objects to a perfect standard.”
In Belgium, the Art Nouveau provided works of Victor Horta. The beauty of these artist works often overshadows the historic context that funded, supplied, inspired this art and design movement. The transformation art and design in Brussels during this time was a product of imperialism and genocide sanctioned by King Leopold II of Belgium, through the exploitation and appropriation Congolese culture and raw materials.
Painters, musicians, and novelists could easily flourish during this time. American artists experimented with their craft and tried out different techniques that weren’t as popular in the 1900s and 1910s. In painting, artists created a new style called Art Deco was being created (Scott). Art Deco is a decorative art that largely affects architecture, and variety of interesting materials can be used in Art Deco, such as aluminum, stainless steel, lacquer, inlaid wood, sharkskin, and zebra skin. Art Deco also incorporates zigzag patterns, steps, sweeping curves, chevron patters, and sunburst. Well known American painters from the 1920s of Art Deco are Max Parrish and Cole Phillips (Scott). Another art form popularized in the 1920s was surrealism. It began to catch fire after the end of WWI and utilized techniques such as automatic drawing, automatic painting, decalcomania, frottage, fumage, grattage, and parsemage. Many surrealist paintings were made with the intention of looking dream-like and shocking audiences. Some pieces contained violence, nudity, and decay (1920s Art). Another type of art in the 1920s was modernism. Modernists, such as Georgia O’Keefe, broke away from traditional ideas. O’Keefe’s paintings were mainly influenced by the city scene and south west landscapes, such as “Ram’s Head with Hollyshock and Little Hills”
The art deco movement began in the mid 1920’s. This style, originally described as a spin-off from art noveau, is not said to be a mix of many different influences. These influences are from forms of eastern and western art, and can be found in many different areas of art such as; architecture, fashion, photography and many more (Duncan, 2009). Art deco revolves around geometric patterns, full of color and an elegant style, all part of an approach toward modernism in art. Examples of art deco in architecture were the Chrysler Building because of its geometric shapes and the Easter Columbia building for the same reason. (Mercincavage, 2017).
Art has been a part of history before Christ was born and along the flow of time different styles and movements revolutionized what art means to the creator and audience. On the flow of time one of the branches that stood out in style, color, and expression through repetition was Impressionism. An artist that helped revolutionize Impressionism in his time was Oscar-Claude Monet, but the piece that stood out was the “Mouth of the Seine at Honfleur.”
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When one considers the term “Art Nouveau,” what comes to mind most immediately is “images of a European-wide invasion [characterized] by the restless dynamism of organic form”(Silverman 1). For me it is usually the work of Alphonse Mucha– his mysterious women surrounded by the beauties of nature. Often my Art Nouveau fantasies take shape in the odd fungal-shaped stained-glass lamps of Tiffany. Or sometimes they surface as the romantic Parisian posters I’ve seen at Pier One, advertising champagne or cats noir or bicycles or the like. But no matter what ones notion may be of what Art Nouveau looks like, there is a feeling that accompanies it that is at the heart of the style’s appeal. It is difficult to define or describe what
Art nouveau is a style of art from 1892- that marries the aesthetics of nature with design. One of the artists that almost every single Art Nouveau gives credit too is William Morris; which truly fuses the arts and crafts with the power of nature. Morris was truly inspired by medieval manuscripts which had compelling designs throughout their pages. Assuming that Art Nouveau is inspired by this illuminated manuscript is not a wrong answer. Another artist that was a foundation to this movement was Dante Gabriel Rossetti; he explored the fascinating characteristics of nature, and how they could be applied to art. The female figure has been used by artists throughout the century to show the true emotions of the human body. This can be seen
The Historical Avant-Garde expressed new ways of art and reformed the traditional sense of art. Christopher Innes used three words that described the Avant-Garde: populism, primitivism, and philosophy. These components can be seen in the figures 1-3 that help define some known movements of the Avant-Garde. The movements that are particularly focused in these figures is Dada, Expressionism, and Surrealism. Each image displays an aesthetic characteristic of the Avant-Garde, as well as defining what the movements stood for. In addition, the visual imagery of these figures illustrates a new method of art, in attempt to create a better art.
Art Nouveau, 1890-1914, explores a new style in the visual arts and architecture that developed in Europe and North America at the end of the nineteenth century. The exhibition is divided into three sections: the first focuses on the 1900 World's Fair in Paris, where Art Nouveau was established as the first new decorative style of the twentieth century; the second examines the sources that influenced the style; and the third looks at its development and fruition in major cities in Europe and North
The author, a blatant supporter of Avant-Garde art defines it as the revolutionary style that was indicative of the progression of human thought and culture. The brave new frontier that was the hall-mark of the 20th century, a distinctive style was solely a product of their generation of artists. Avant-Garde art represent art that has been freed from the constraints of rules