The Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau was a movement that began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that swept through the decorative arts and architecture. Art Nouveau is  known as well as Jugendstil. The way of the style was most welcome in Europe, but it had its influence global.

Art Nouveau was mainly aimed to modernizing design and seeking to escape the eclectic historical practice that had previously been popular.

At that time most of the artists drew inspiration from both organic and geometric forms that evolved elegant designs natural forms with more angular contours.

There were many artists and designers who worked in the Art Nouveau style. Some of them were the Scottish architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who specialized in geometric line and particularly influenced the Austrian Sezessionstil,was the Belgian architects Victor Horta and Henry van de Velde  . Many designers at that time felt that 19th century design had been excessively ornamental, and wishing to avoid what they perceived as decoration, they had been evolved a belief that the function of an object should dictate its form.

Art nouvea cabinet

Art Nouveau influence Art Deco furniture designs, whose surfaces are enriched by exotic wood veneers and ornamental inlays. Dramatic Art Nouveau inspired graphics that became more popular in the social and political milieu of the 1960s, besides a new generation challenging ideas.

 

The style had went out of fashion after it was given way to Art Deco in the 1920s, but it experienced a popular revival in the 1960s, and it’s now seen as an important predecessor of modernism.

 

Referencing

Art Nouveau Movement, Artists and Major Works | The Art Story. 2015. Art Nouveau Movement, Artists and Major Works | The Art Story. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-art-nouveau.htm. [Accessed 16 January 2015].

Art Nouveau | Exhibitions. 2015. Art Nouveau | Exhibitions. [ONLINE] Available at: http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/exhibits/show/art-nouveau-en. [Accessed 16 January 2015].

Art Nouveau - Victoria and Albert Museum. 2015. Art Nouveau - Victoria and Albert Museum. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/a/art-nouveau/. [Accessed 16 January 2015].