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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 ...
August 3 – Flannery O'Connor, American essayist and fiction writer (born 1925) [29] August 5 – Moa Martinson, Swedish author (born 1890) [30] August 12 – Ian Fleming, English spy thriller writer (heart attack, born 1908) [31] August 17 – Mihai Ralea, Romanian critic and sociologist of literature (born 1896)
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.
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.
The National Gallery purchases Rembrandt's painting Belshazzar's Feast from The Art Fund. [ 3 ] At The Factory , performance artist Dorothy Podber shoots a hole in four Andy Warhol " Marilyn " silk screen paintings, inadvertently transforming them into the works which have come to be known as the Shot Marilyns and is summarily banned from the ...
The Timeline of Art Nouveau shows notable works and events of Art Nouveau (an international style of art, architecture and applied art) as well as of local movements included in it (Modernisme, Glasgow School, Vienna Secession, Jugendstil, Stile Liberty, Tiffany Style and others). Main events are written in bold.
Liberty style (Italian: stile Liberty [ˈstiːle ˈliːberti]) was the Italian variant of Art Nouveau, which flourished between about 1890 and 1914.It was also sometimes known as stile floreale ("floral style"), arte nuova ("new art"), or stile moderno ("modern style" not to be confused with the Spanish variant of Art Nouveau which is Art Nouveau in Madrid).
A. A-One (graffiti artist) Tom Roger Aadland; Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen; Susanne Aalto; Carina Aaltonen; Ben Aaronovitch; Aydamir Abalayev; Luis Abarca; Garbiñe Abasolo