House in Brussels, Victor Horta
Vase, Louis Comfort Tiffany, 1903, favrile glass
Alphonse Mucha, La Dame aux Camélias. 1896. Color lithographArt Nouveau (new art) is one of my favorite art movements; inspiration for my own work. The artists of this time believed in Gesamtkunstwerk the philosophy that all the of the arts should work in harmony to create a "total work of 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. This movement attempted to create an international aesthetic based on decoration. The movement also was highly influenced by the Industrial Revolution and artists started to embrace the use of cast iron in their work. The style completely took over the city and homes during this time in decoration and architecture. Nature was a big inspiration for the artists of this movement, they started to explore that humans were no longer more important than nature but a huge part of it, and were fascinated about how these relationships work together. Notable design features are the clear whiplash curve, and natural forms. The World’s Fair held in Paris in 1900 made the movement important to the world. Artists that I love (to name a few) from this movement are: Alphonse Mucha, Victor Horta, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Louis Comfort Tiffany.
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I also love Alphonse Mucha. My parents and I have collected prints of his over the years and when we went to Prague, we visited the Baroque Kaunický Palace which housed Mucha's works. While we were there, we also visited the St. Vitus Cathedral to see his stained glass windows. After the Mucha museum, we went to a store that sold some reproductions of his art. We ended up buying a small pitcher that was a replica of an original pitcher that he made. I really like Alphonse's painting style. He uses pale pastel colors, and his religion and nationalism really show through in his art. The painting that made him famous was the Gismonda, which is a beautiful poster of Sarah Bernhardt who was a famous actress at the time. My favorite Mucha paintings would have to be Joan of Arc (Maude Adams), Princess Hyacinth, Madonna of the Lilies, Dance, and Zodiac.
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