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The Art Nouveau movement began in Europe as a response to the Industrial Revolution and the dominance of historical revival styles. Artists and architects sought to create a design language that ...
The term Art Nouveau was first used in the 1880s in the Belgian journal L'Art Moderne to describe the work of Les Vingt, twenty painters and sculptors seeking reform through art. The name was popularized by the Maison de l'Art Nouveau ('House of the New Art'), an art gallery opened in Paris in 1895 by the Franco-German art dealer Siegfried Bing.
Maison de l'Art Nouveau was opened by Siegfried Bing in Paris: Pan magazine was founded and published by Otto Julius Bierbaum, Julius Meier-Graefe, and Richard Dehmel in Berlin: A poster for Gismonda by Alphonse Mucha was published in Paris: 1896 The poster for the cabaret Le Chat noir was created by Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen in Paris
The Maison de l'Art Nouveau showed paintings by Georges Seurat, Paul Signac and Toulouse-Lautrec, glass from Louis Comfort Tiffany and Émile Gallé, jewelry by René Lalique, and posters by Aubrey Beardsley. Bing wrote in 1902, "Art Nouveau, at the time of its creation, did not aspire in any way to have the honor of becoming a generic term.
Réseau Art Nouveau Network (RANN) was established in 1999 by European cities with a rich Art Nouveau heritage.Enterprise and commitment are the Network's chief hallmarks; as well as championing a rigorously scientific approach, it aims to keep professionals informed and to make the general public aware of the cultural significance and European dimension of the art nouveau heritage.
Late 1895 Art Nouveau spread throughout Europe, and in the 1900’s the style had reached to be international. The Polish Art Nouveau style was centred in Kraków, once Poland's royal capital city. Stanisław Wyspiański was the chief Art Nouveau artist in Poland; his paintings, theatrical designs, stained glass windows and building interiors ...
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.
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.