Art Nouveau

I've always been awed by the Art Nouveau style and actually just finished up a project on contemporary artist David Lance Goines'. His stuff is so art nouveau, but looks more refined than the earlier works that I've seen today. I noticed that the colors of art nouveau are all so similar. The warm colors seemed to dominate all the works and everything was saturated. The simplicity and elegance of line is so fluid.


New Land typeface. pinnacle of German typography. 

The alphabet. Arts and Crafts, returning to the medieval. 

Arts and Crafts goes into Art Nouveau.

Jules Cheret, his work typically has a woman at the center surrounded by activity and the typography. 

Moulin Rouge - La Goulue 1800

E. Grasset: his color book style of art nouveau. the look of woodcut printing but it is lithographic printed.

Arther Machmurdo: quality of line, contrasting.

Hobby Horse: art magazine. the beginning of the art manifestoes. shows British arts and crafts to a broader audience. 

The Studio: 1893. art magazine. shows the works of Aubrey Beardsley. he did full page illustrations. Beardsley put little nymphs in his work.

Aubrey Beardsley did dark stuff. shocking art. interesting use of figure and ground. 

Asian influence in Art Nouveau.

Alphonse Mucha: art nouveau illustrator. Long prints so he could print two side by side in one lithography. Stylized form. flowers, folk art, delicate letters. tile, repeating pattern. tendrils of hair, whiplash hair. boarder elements. exotic design, peacock feathers and exotic lines. 

pattern books

Manuel Orazi-- recognizable art nouveau. 

GE logo made during art nouveau.

Harpers Magazine used the European art nouveau, bringing art nouveau influences into America.

Lois Rhead and Will Bradley are two art nouveau inspired artists in America.

The Inland Printer magazine. flat pattern with flat figures.

photomechanical

Will Bradley merged art nouveau style and medieval style.

Jugenstil- German for youth style

Peter Behrens. Designed the kiss with young people. looks like two girls so it was very controversial.

Margaret and Francis McDonald 

Hurlbert McNare

Charles Rene Macintosh 

^ four art students at the Glasgow school of art. Geometric, curvilineal elements. VERY LONG rectilineal structure. reductive style (becoming abstract)

The Vienna Secession (The Austrian Art Nouveau)

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Gustav Klimt - the kiss

Josef Hoffmann

Ver sacrum: Sacred Spring. Journal.

Art Nouveau influenced 60s work - the type aesthetic 

Kolman Moser