1st Art Nouveau Lecture looks at the beginning art nouveau period in France.

4. William Morris
Arts & Crafts

23. Arts & Crafts
• Traditional Craftsmanship
• Using simple forms
• Applied medieval, romantic or folk
styles of decoration
• Reaction against bad design of
Industrial Revolution

24. Art Nouveau
• Design Style
• Period of Design (1850 – 1900)

33. Art Nouveau Style
• Japanese Influence
o Shapes of Flat color
o Asymmetrical compositions
o Crisp linear elements
o 2- dimensional characters
• Rococo Influence
o Sexual imagery
o Atmospheric Elements
o Brilliant Colors
• Mass Produced

46. Art Nouveau Style
• Japanese Influence
o Shapes of Flat color
o Asymmetrical compositions
o Crisp linear elements
o 2- dimensional characters
• Rococo Influence
o Sexual imagery
o Atmospheric Elements
o Brilliant Colors
• Mass Produced
• Organic forms, curvilinear rhythum
• Elongated forms

54. Art Nouveau must be a style that
is not unique to one kind of
medium