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Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau was an international style of art, architecture, and design that originated in Europe between 1890 and 1910. It was inspired by natural forms, featuring sinuous organic lines and curving shapes inspired by plants and flowers. Art Nouveau embraced a wide variety of art forms, including architecture, paintings, graphics, interior design, and decorative arts. It emphasized flowing, asymmetrical designs and was a reaction against academic styles of the 19th century.

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Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau was an international style of art, architecture, and design that originated in Europe between 1890 and 1910. It was inspired by natural forms, featuring sinuous organic lines and curving shapes inspired by plants and flowers. Art Nouveau embraced a wide variety of art forms, including architecture, paintings, graphics, interior design, and decorative arts. It emphasized flowing, asymmetrical designs and was a reaction against academic styles of the 19th century.

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ART NOUVEAU

 Means New Art


 An international style of art, architecture and applied art, especially the
decorative arts that become popular in Europe and the United States in 1890 and
1910.
 Inspired by natural forms and structures, particularly the curved lines of plants
and flowers.
 Art Nouveau is characterized by its use of a long, sinuous, organic line.
 It embraces a wide range of fine and decorative arts, including architecture,
painting, graphic art, interior design, jewelry, furniture, textiles ceramics, glass art
and metal work.
 Moving spirit behind art nouveau was the Englishman, William Morris through the
Arts and Crafts Movement. As well as the flat perspective and strong colors of
Japanese woodcuts.
 Art Nouveau was a reaction against 19th-century academic styles and an
expression of desire by artists and architects to create a new style for the
coming turn of the century. In other words, new art for a new age.

CHARACTERISTICS
The distinguishing ornamental characteristic of Art Nouveau is its:
 undulating, asymmetrical line;
 often taking the form of flower stalks and buds, vine tendrils, insect wings, and
other delicate and sinuous natural objects;
 the line may be elegant and graceful or infused with a powerfully rhythmic and
whiplike force.
The unique characteristic of Art Nouveau is the lively, serpentine curve known as the
whiplash.

TYPES OF DESIGNS

In line with with the Art Nouveau philosophy that art should become part of everyday
life, it employed flat, decorative patterns that could be used in all art forms.

Typical decorative elements include leaf and tendril motifs, intertwined organic forms,
mostly curvaceous in shape.

Art made in this style typically depicted lavish birds, flowers, insects and other
zoomorphs, as well as the hair and curvaceous bodies of beautiful women.
Ukiyo-e

You can see some of Art Nouveau’s inspiration in


traditional Celtic knots, like the one to the left.
(Jenica nasa iisang slide lang tong tatlo or two slides kung ano mas malinaw)

THE STRAWBERRY THEFT


(Flower and Bird Pattern), by
William Morris, 1884
The Kiss by Gustav
Klimt
(1907-08)

Aubrey Beardsley, The Climax, 1894.


Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I, 1907 by Gustav Klimt

La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge


(1891)
Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
APPLICATIONS

Art Nouveau designs were most common in glassware, jewellery, and other decorative
objects like ceramics. But the style was also applied to textiles, household silver,
domestic utensils, cigarette cases, furniture and lighting, as well as drawing, poster art,
painting and book illustration.

Model #342, “Wisteria” Lamp


(ca. 1901-05)
Artist: Clara Driscoll for Tiffany Studios,
New York

Dragonfly corsage ornament made of gold,


enamel, chrysoprase, moonstones, and
diamonds, designed by René Lalique, 1897–98;
in the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.
Art Nouveau Staircase (1893-7)
Emile Tassel House, Brussels.
Design by architect Victor Horta,
member of Les Vingt artist group.
ART NOUVEAU ARCHITECTURE
Art Nouveau Architecture can be identified by its graceful curving lines. Some structures seem
almost organic, rising from the ground in swelling and undulating forms. Lines stretch and then bend
back on themselves to create a form sometimes called a whiplash curve. Whiplash curves have
become a hallmark of the style.

Art Nouveau Buildings Have Many of These Features

 Asymmetrical shapes
 Extensive use of arches and curved forms
 Curved glass
 Curving, plant-like embellishments
 Mosaics
 Stained glass
 Japanese motifs
Gaudí, Antoni: Casa Mila, Barcelona, by Antoni Gaudí,
1905–10

Majolika Haus, 1898-


1899

Otto Wagner
The Budapest Museum
of Applied Arts (1893-96)
Artist: Ödön Lechner and Gyula
Pártos

Entrances to
Paris Subway
Stations (1900)
Artist: Hector Guimard

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