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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.
Art Nouveau posters and graphic arts flourished and became an important vehicle of the style, thanks to the new technologies of color lithography and color printing, which allowed the creation of and distribution of the style to a vast audience in Europe, the United States and beyond. Art was no longer confined to art galleries, but could be ...
The most famous example is the Gamble House in Pasadena, California. [28] [29] Frank Lloyd Wright is not considered an Art Nouveau architect, but the early furniture he designed strongly resembled the geometric furniture of the Vienna Secession and other late Art Nouveau movements of the same period.
Image credits: Roberto Serra - Iguana Press / Getty Images #3 Rembrandt (July 15, 1606 — October 4, 1669) Rembrandt is regarded among the greatest portrait painters and printmakers of all time.
The spiraling design of the snake is a nod to Mucha's swirling Art Nouveau painting style. [39] The Cascade pendant designed for Fouquet by Mucha (1900) is in the form of a waterfall, composed of gold, enamel, opals, tiny diamonds, paillons, and a barocco or misshapen pearl.
Otto Koloman Wagner (German: [ˈɔto ˈkoːloman ˈvaːɡnɐ] ⓘ; 13 July 1841 – 11 April 1918) was an Austrian architect, furniture designer and urban planner.He was a leading member of the Vienna Secession movement of architecture, founded in 1897, and the broader Art Nouveau movement.
The term is commonly used in French, English, and German to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art and culture. Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm.
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.