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Art Nouveau (/ ˌ ɑː r (t) n uː ˈ v oʊ / AR(T) noo-VOH; French: [aʁ nuvo] ⓘ; lit. ' New Art '), Jugendstil and Secessionsstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and flowers. [1]
His view of a musical arabesque was a line curved in accordance with nature, and with his music he mirrored the celebrations of shapes in nature made by the Art Nouveau artists of the time. [1] Of the arabesque in baroque music, he wrote: [ 2 ]
Our guide to Art Nouveau architecture explores the late 19th-century movement known for flowing lines and organic forms and how it influenced the culture.
Guillaume de Machaut (French: [ɡi'jom də ma'ʃo], Old French: [ɡiˈʎawmə də maˈtʃaw(θ)]; also Machau and Machault; c. 1300 – April 1377) was a French composer and poet who was the central figure of the ars nova style in late medieval music.
Poster by Frances MacDonald (1896). The Modern Style is a style of architecture, art, and design that first emerged in the United Kingdom in the mid-1880s. It was the first Art Nouveau style worldwide, and it represents the evolution of the Arts and Crafts movement which was native to Great Britain.
A theme that is repeated and imitated and built upon by other instruments with a time delay, creating a layered effect; see Pachelbel's Canon. cantabile or cantando In a singing style. In instrumental music, a style of playing that imitates the way the human voice might express the music, with a measured tempo and flexible legato. cantilena
Articles relating to Art Nouveau, an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts.The style was most popular between 1890 and 1910 during the Belle Époque period that ended with the start of World War I in 1914.
The Art Nouveau movement of architecture and design first appeared in Brussels, Belgium, in the early 1890s, and quickly spread to France and to the rest of Europe.It began as a reaction against the formal vocabulary of European academic art, eclecticism and historicism of the 19th century, and was based upon an innovative use of new materials, such as iron and glass, to open larger interior ...