Art Nouveau
-Art Nouveau was a movement that swept through the
decorative arts and architecture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Generating enthusiasts throughout Europe and beyond,
the movement issued in a wide variety of styles, and, consequently, it is known
by various names, such as the Glasgow Style, or, in the German-speaking world, Jugendstil.
- Its considered a "total" art style, embracing
architecture, graphic art,
interior design, and most of the decorative artsincluding jewellery, furniture,
textiles, household silver and other utensils and lighting, as
well as the fine arts.
- Art Nouveau was aimed at modernizing design, seeking to
escape the eclectic historical styles that had previously been popular.
- Artists drew inspiration from both organic and
geometric forms, evolving elegant designs that united flowing, natural forms
with more angular contours.
- The
style went out of fashion after it gave way to Art Deco in the 1920s, but it experienced a
popular revival in the 1960s, and it is now seen as an important predecessor of modernism.
- The desire to abandon the historical styles of the 19th
century was an important impetus behind Art Nouveau and one that establishes
the movement's modernism.
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Industrial production was, at that point, widespread, and yet the decorative
arts were increasingly dominated by poorly made objects imitating earlier
periods.
- The academic system, which dominated art education from
the 17th to the 19th century, underpinned the widespread belief that media such
as painting and sculpture were superior to crafts such as furniture design and
silver-smithing.
- Although Art Nouveau was replaced by 20th-century Modernist styles, it is now considered as an important
transition between the eclectic historic revival styles of the 19th-century and
Modernism.
Adele Bloch-Bauer 1 by Gustav Klimt
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