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Art Nouveau. Art Nouveau (/ ˌɑːr (t) nuːˈvoʊ / AR (T) noo-VOH, French: [aʁ nuvo] ⓘ; lit. 'New Art'), Jugendstil 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]
Timeline of Art Nouveau. 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.
The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles [1] and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America. [2] Initiated in reaction against the perceived impoverishment of the decorative arts and the conditions ...
Van Briggle Art Pottery was at the time of its demise the oldest continuously operating art pottery in the United States, having been established in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1901 by Artus and Anne Van Briggle. Artus had a significant impact on the Art Nouveau movement in the United States, and his pottery is foundational to American Art ...
National Romantic architecture in the United States (2 P) Art Nouveau architecture in New York (state) (1 C, 5 P)
Art Nouveau furniture. Furniture created in the Art Nouveau style was prominent from the beginning of the 1890s to the beginning of the First World War in 1914. It characteristically used forms based on nature, such as vines, flowers and water lilies, and featured curving and undulating lines, sometimes known as the whiplash line, both in the ...
Art Nouveau. William Henry Bradley (July 10, 1868 – January 25, 1962) was an American Art Nouveau illustrator, artist and film director. Nicknamed the "Dean of American Designers" by The Saturday Evening Post, [1] he was the highest-paid American artist of the early 20th century.
Popular in many countries from the early 1890s until the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Art Nouveau was an influential although relatively brief art and design movement and philosophy. Despite being a short-lived fashion, it paved the way for the modern architecture of the 20th century.