The document summarizes Art Nouveau, an avant-garde art movement that originated in Belgium in the late 19th century and spread throughout Europe. Some key points: - It rejected academic traditions in favor of nature-inspired designs with flowing, organic forms. Materials like metal and glass were often combined. - Major figures included Victor Horta, Hector Guimard, Alphonse Mucha, Emile Gallé, and René Lalique, who worked in architecture, graphics, furniture, glassware, and other mediums. - Art Nouveau emphasized sensuality and femininity through themes of nature, curved lines, and themes of life seen in works featuring plants, dragons, and mer

1. ART
NOUVEAU

2. Art Nouveau
 An important avant-garde art
movement appeared, at the turn of the
20th century (1890-1910), that began
in Belgium, then to France and spread
in all of Europe’s big cities as a
reaction against the academic
schools.

3. Art Nouveau
Outgrowth of 2 19th century English
developments
 Arts and Crafts Movement
 Aesthetic Movement (art for art’s
sake)
 Synthetis of art and craft (John
Ruskin)

4. Art Nouveau
 Style Jules Verne, Le Style
Métro (after Hector Guimard's iron and
glass subway entrances), Art belle
époque, and Art fin de siècle

5. Art Nouveau
 Avant garde -- point guard
 Art nouveau -- new art
Hotel Tassel, Brussels, Belgium
Designed by Victor Horta
Completed 1894

6. Art Nouveau
 Underlying principle:
--the essence of aesthetics should be
sought in nature rather than ancient
Classicist renditions.

7. Art Nouveau
 First coined by some Belgian art critics as the 19th
century drew to a close, the expression 'Art
Nouveau‘ began catching on internationally in Paris
with the opening in 1895 of the art gallery Maison
Art Nouveau by the famous German art dealer
Siegfried Bing.
Maison Art Nouveau
22 rue de Provence, Paris
Opened: December 1895

8. Art Nouveau
 Characteristics/Essence:
--sensuous lines and subtle light
--feminine figures and curly hair
-- fluent dresses and attitudes
--vegetal curves and willow leaves
-- twisting waves and evanescent smoke
-- also, controlled lines, geometric details, colorful new
shapes

9. Art Nouveau
Manifested in:
 architecture
 interior design
 furniture
 fabrics
 glass / tableware
 jewelry
 perfume bottles
 posters and wallpaper, textiles and
lighting.

10. Art Nouveau
 New materials were used and
combined, such as metal and glass or
wood, creating admirable objects and
buildings.

11. Art Nouveau
Inspired / Influenced by:
 Japanese art (which was changing the western
attitude to Art, influencing painters as Monet,
Gauguin, Van Gogh, Ensor, Munch, Matisse or
Toulouse-Lautrec )
 Celtic art
 Gothic art
 Rococo art
Katsushika Hokusai
The Great Wave off Kanagawa

12. Art Nouveau
 Nature and Life
--chosen as inspiring sources creating
emotions and feelings in all forms of
visual arts such as painting and
graphic design

13. Art Nouveau
Victor Horta
1861-1947
Belgian architect and interior designer

14. Art Nouveau

15. Art Nouveau

16. Art Nouveau
Alphonse Mucha
1860-1939
Moravia, now Czech Republic
Graphic designer, painter

17. Art Nouveau
Mucha originally wanted to be a painter.

18. Art Nouveau
Poster for Victorien
Sardou's Gismonda starring
Sarah Bernhardt at the
Théâtre de la Renaissance in
Paris.
Lithograph
1894

19. Art Nouveau
Nestlé's Food for
Infants
lithograph
1897

20. Art Nouveau
Rene Lalique
1860-1945
France
jeweler, artist, glassmaker,
industrialist

21. Art Nouveau
serpentine
art glass vases

22. Art Nouveau
Perfume bottle, 1905
10 centimeters tall tear-drop
shaped Sirenes Cire Perdue
Perfume Bottle with bronze
cap
sold in Tokyo Japan for a
world record price at auction
for $370,000 U.S. Dollars

23. Art Nouveau
Glass car mascots or
hood
ornaments
sirene
$200,000.00

24. Art Nouveau
Cigales,
Lalique Musée Gulbenkian

25. Art Nouveau
Dragonfly lady brooch

26. Art Nouveau
Glass vase

27. Art Nouveau
Émile Gallé
1846-1904
French glass artist

28. Art Nouveau
Vase with relief
Decoration
ca. 1895
Victoria and Albert Museum

29. Art Nouveau
Cased, acid-etched, and wheel cu
glass vase
circa 1890-95

30. Art Nouveau
Hand with seaweed and
shells
1904
glass with low and high
relief and wheel engraving

31. Art Nouveau
Hector Guimard
1867-1942
French architect, interior
designer,
“Style Guimard”

32. Art Nouveau
Made for the 1900 Paris World
Exposition

33. Art Nouveau
68 surviving Metro entrances
wrought iron, bronze, glass

34. Art Nouveau
Castel Beranger
# 14 Rue La Fontaine,
Paris, France
ca. 1890
Apartment building

35. Art Nouveau

36. Art Nouveau
Henri Toulouse-
Lautrec
circa 1890

37. Art Nouveau
The left third of Louis Comfort
Tiffany's “Education" stained
glass window at Yale University,
United States.

38. Art Nouveau
The interior of the Vitebsk
Railway Station in St.
Petersburg, Russia.

39. Art Nouveau
Casa Batilló
Barcelona
Antoni Gaudi

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