Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau is the name for the artistic movement that started in Europe around 1890 and lasted until around 1910. It took on many different characteristics in different places, and some of the most famous designers from the era have disparate styles, including Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona, Josef Hoffmann in Vienna and Carlo Bugatti in Italy. What these designers had in common was an interest in finding a new artistic vocabulary that could best express the modern world. Let's take a look at a few iconic Art Nouveau designs from France and Belgium, where the style was perhaps most cohesive and identifiable.

Art Nouveau, ornamental style of art that flourished between about 1890 and 1910 throughout Europe and the United States.

Art Nouveau was an innovative international style of modern art that became fashionable from about 1890 to the First World War. Arising as a reaction to 19th-century designs dominated by historicism in general and neoclassicism in particular, it promulgated the idea of art and design as part of everyday life.

Art Nouveau - Thematic Essay - Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Art Nouveau and Art History.

Ornamental style of art that flourished between about 1890 and 1910 throughout Europe and the United States. Art Nouveau is characterized by its use of a long, sinuous, organic...

Artworks and artists: Art Nouveau swept through the decorative arts and architecture and aimed at modernizing design, seeking to escape the eclectic historical styles that had previously been popular...

Art Nouveau is considered a "total" art style, embracing architecture, graphic art, interior design, and most of the decorative arts including jewellery, furniture, textiles, household silver and other utensils and lighting, as well as the fine arts.

In the previous posts I started to write about influence of art history on modern design and I began with the Gothic Style from the Medieval Period, which was followed by the post about the Baroque Style from the Western Art.

A list of 7 greatest Art Nouveau masterpieces, their authors and brief analysis.

One could argue as to which was the last movement of the Nineteenth-century or the first movement of the Twentieth-century, but Art Nouveau fits into the end and the beginning, dating from 1895 to 1905.

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Being confused all the time about whether a building actually is Art Nouveau or not, made me decide to get my facts straight and learn to recognise the characteristics of the style. In order to understand the situation in which Art Nouveau emerged, we're going back in time to find the Industrial Revolution taking place in the 1850s. People felt rich…

Art Nouveau was a movement in the visual arts popular from the early 1890s up to the First World War. It is viewed by some as the first self-conscious attempt to create a modern style. Its influence can be found in painting, sculpture, jewellery, metalwork, glass and ceramics.The drawings of Aubrey Beardsley, the architecture of Victor Horta and Paul Hankar and the poster designs of Alphonse Mucha are some of the most familiar examples of the Art Nouveau style.