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The French Revolution greatly influenced art through two major movements, Neoclassicism and Romanticism. Neoclassicism focused on rationality and values of the Enlightenment to address questions raised by the Revolution. Meanwhile, Romanticism emerged after Napoleon, depicting emotions and nature to relate to common people. Artists explored new styles and subjects to convey the serious atmosphere of the Revolution and changing social ideals.
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2) The Enlightenment encouraged the use of reason and science to question traditions. The French Revolution led neoclassicist artists like David to use art to support republican ideals.
3) Romanticism saw nature as a source of spiritual awakening. The invention of photography allowed artists more individualized perceptions.
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The Pop Art Movement began in the 1950s in Britain and the US and lasted until the late 1960s. It featured bold, colorful works depicting popular culture and mass media imagery. A key work was Andy Warhol's 1962 painting Marilyn Diptych, which depicted Marilyn Monroe. The movement reflected the increasing influence of advertising, celebrities, and consumerism in postwar Western culture. While initially popular, it declined as the Vietnam War intensified and social values shifted in the late 1960s.
In the 1940s, surrealist artists fled to New York City where abstract expressionism developed as the dominant avant-garde movement, influenced by surrealism and existentialism. This diminished figuration and emphasized pure expression and the flatness of the canvas. Meanwhile in Europe, art informel emerged as the equivalent to abstract expressionism. By the 1950s, pop art began as a critique of modernism by embracing popular culture, while minimalism stripped art down to basic materials and forms.
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This document provides an overview of several key periods and movements in art history:
1) The Protestant Reformation began in 1517 with Martin Luther posting his 95 Theses challenging the Catholic Church. The Baroque style that emerged in response aimed to use emotionally powerful religious art to fight Protestantism.
2) The Enlightenment encouraged the use of reason and science to question traditions. The French Revolution led neoclassicist artists like David to use art to support republican ideals.
3) Romanticism saw nature as a source of spiritual awakening. The invention of photography allowed artists more individualized perceptions.
4) Impressionism depicted light and movement. Cubism and Futurism embraced new
This essay discusses how identity is a central concern in contemporary art and life. It explores how artists have used different art forms and techniques to examine, discuss, and express identity. Specifically, it mentions how self-portraits have allowed artists to explore their personal identities. Contemporary artist Cindy Sherman is discussed as an example of an artist who explored how identities changed due to wars and loss through her character transformations in photographs. The essay argues that identity has been a focus of art for hundreds of years and continues to be a major theme explored through various contemporary artistic mediums and styles.
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In the 1940s, surrealist artists fled to New York City where abstract expressionism developed as the dominant avant-garde movement, influenced by surrealism and existentialism. This diminished figuration and emphasized pure expression and the flatness of the canvas. Meanwhile in Europe, art informel emerged as the equivalent to abstract expressionism. By the 1950s, pop art began as a critique of modernism by embracing popular culture, while minimalism stripped art down to basic materials and forms.
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Modernism emerged in the late 19th century as a rejection of traditional forms of art, literature, and social organization that were viewed as outdated in the new industrialized world. It grew out of earlier movements like Romanticism, Realism, and Aestheticism that emphasized individualism and subjective experience over established rules and conventions. Modernist artists and thinkers believed the modern industrial environment should inspire new forms of creative expression. While Modernism was originally a European phenomenon, it gained widespread prominence and was heavily promoted internationally by the United States in the mid-20th century.
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- Antoni Gaudi belonged to the Art Nouveau movement and was famous for unique sculptural designs.
- The Bauhaus school combined crafts and fine arts and promoted a functional modernist approach from 1919-1933.
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Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering
Syllabus
Chapter-1
Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
Introduction: Scope and Specialization of Civil Engineering, Role of civil Engineer in Society, Impact of infrastructural development on economy of country.
Chapter 3
Surveying: Object Principles & Types of Surveying; Site Plans, Plans & Maps; Scales & Unit of different Measurements.
Linear Measurements: Instruments used. Linear Measurement by Tape, Ranging out Survey Lines and overcoming Obstructions; Measurements on sloping ground; Tape corrections, conventional symbols. Angular Measurements: Instruments used; Introduction to Compass Surveying, Bearings and Longitude & Latitude of a Line, Introduction to total station.
Levelling: Instrument used Object of levelling, Methods of levelling in brief, and Contour maps.
Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
Environmental Engineering: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Acts and Regulations, Functional Concepts of Ecology, Basics of Species, Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Hydrological Cycle; Chemical Cycles: Carbon, Nitrogen & Phosphorus; Energy Flow in Ecosystems.
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Text Books:
1. Palancharmy, Basic Civil Engineering, McGraw Hill publishers.
2. Satheesh Gopi, Basic Civil Engineering, Pearson Publishers.
3. Ketki Rangwala Dalal, Essentials of Civil Engineering, Charotar Publishing House.
4. BCP, Surveying volume 1
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Art Nouveau, Aplhonse Mucha, and the Mass Visibility of Culture.pdf
1. Raluca Petre
Art Nouveau, Alphonse Mucha and the Mass Visibility of Culture
This paper discusses the link between the concepts of mass culture, Art Nouveau and advertizing in
the context of the western world with a special emphasis on Paris, fin-de-siècle. This phenomenon is
represented by the artist Alphonse Mucha, through his posters, jewelry, public space decorations and
paintings. The article focuses on posters and advertisements, as a blending of mass and formal art,
designed by representatives of the Art Nouveau and displayed in public spaces.
Key words: mass communication, access to art, Art Nouveau, Alphonse Mucha, advertizing
1. Introduction
In this paper I attempt to explore some phenomena that emerged and developed by the end
of the nineteenth century, that are interconnected and that can explain some of the cultural
aspects of the time. I will touch upon the concepts of mass culture, Art Nouveau and
advertising in the context of western world with a special emphasis on Paris, fin-de- siècle.
The link between these large developments is in my paper the figure of the artist Alphonse
Mucha, whose trajectory I will draw in the pages to follow and whose art I will try to
understand, linking art and everyday life in its emerging shape of culture that reaches the
masses as well.
All the concepts to be used in the present paper could be problematized as single subjects,
the phenomenon or Art Nouveau being large enough to cover plenty of pages. At the same
time, advertising is an institution of modernity that reshapes the functioning of press and the
circulation of goods in the market. One of its early species in Europe, the poster was
widespread in Europe in the flourishing epoch of Art Nouveau and had original
representatives in Europe and the United States. It can be considered a hybrid form of art,
caricature, decoration and promotion, according to the artists that were using it, as well as to
its purpose and reach.
The restricted space of this paper does not allow for elaborate discussions of each of the
above-mentioned basic concepts. Rather, I will try to define them briefly and to introduce
them in their diachronic dimension as background for understanding the works of the
selected figure that would link the basic concepts. The concept of ‘mass’ and of ‘mass
culture’ have been richly documented by the authors dealing with popular culture even if in
its later manifestations, starting with the second half of the twentieth century. In this paper
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the masses are not a subject but the recipient that starts to have access to various forms of art
and entertainment in the context of developing technologies1
.
In the pages to follow, the main attempt will be to understand the work of Alphonse
Mucha in the new context of Art Nouveau as statement of linking art and life during the last
years of the nineteenth century and the first ones from the twentieth one. I will explore each
of the phenomena above-mentioned having as core Alphonse Mucha as a man of his epoch,
one that is translating the transformations in the society and is expressing the emergence of a
mass culture in the place of an exclusive high culture via the statements of Art Nouveau as a
new form, pointing mainly on the advertising poster as a mass-culture form, even if not
directly produced for the masses.
2. Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau began in the 1880s as a reaction against the historical emphasis of mid-19th-
century, as an attempt to look at the present life forms, beauty and decorations and depart
from the historicism characteristic of the Romantic epoch. Like Impressionism, Art Nouveau
was a rebellion against classical and traditional art. The movement was very successful in
going beyond the borders of fine art and spreading into commercial and decorative arts.
Famous artists like Alphonse Mucha or Gustav Klimt, went into such fields as high fashion,
jewelry designs and advertising. The style is characterized by integrating all aspects of art
and design.
Art historians tend to interpret this new movement as a reaction to the Industrial
Revolution. Creating art in this new style required a high level of craftsmanship. Thus it was
in contrast to mass-produced goods made by machines and the objects consequently were
rather expensive; the new style was reserved for the wealthy just like previous forms of art.
The novelty consists in the fact that common people could have access to some of its
products as its manifestations were ranging from public institutions, like some of the metro
stations in Paris, to posters exposed in the streets and boulevards.
One of the main sources of inspiration for the representatives of Art Nouveau was the
Japanese art that only became available to the western gaze after 1860, when the commerce
with this distant place started to develop. Before that time, Japan had lived in complete
seclusion for centuries. Japanese art became very fashionable in Europe and European artists
like van Gogh, Gaugain or Toulouse Lautrec were influenced by it. By the middle of the 19th
century type designers were experimenting with all sorts of ornamental type, particularly for
use in advertising and in specialized books aimed at an increasingly intellectual middle class
market. One of the innovators in this period was William Morris, who launched the Arts and
Crafts movement, which included among its interests the development of new and visually
striking styles of lettering and typography.
In general it was most successfully practiced in the decorative arts: furniture, jewelry, and
book design and illustration. Decorative type and lettering was a major element of the Art
1
For an elaborated discussion on the substantive transformations of the ‘mass’, see Peter Sloterdijk,
DispreŃuirea maselor; eseu asupra luptelor culturale în societatea modernă (Despising the Masses;
Essay on the Cultural Fights in the Modern Society) 2002, Idea, Cluj-Napoca
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Nouveau movement, which had strong ties to the performing arts and other visual arts which
required publicity in the form of advertisements and posters.
Everything could be art and in this respect Mucha designed from champagne advertising
to stage sets, from beer promotion to large national paintings. Art Nouveau was an
International modern art movement and The World's Fair in Paris in 1900 was a
demonstration of its general public acceptance.
Art Nouveau can trace its beginnings in the last years of the nineteenth century, by the
time Mucha launched his ‘programatic’ poster for Sarah’s Bernard theatre, for the play
Gismonda in 1895. Based on precepts akin to William Morris' Arts and Crafts movement in
England, the attempt was to eradicate the dividing line between art and audience. The basic
precept of this new movement was synchronic with the emergence of the masses as
conscious potential participants in the cultural production and consumption as well as with
the increasing development of an intellectual middle class. At the same time, the common
people were not yet direct target of culture. Nevertheless, Art Nouveau was descending from
the ivory tower of high-culture in the streets and public places. The art was becoming visible
to the many, from posters in magazines or theatre halls as Mucha became apparent to the
common eye, up to public facilities, like decorations in the public institutions, other than the
churches.
3. Fin-de-siècle mass culture and advertising; the poster
In the context of growing popular entertainment and popular-oriented art forms, one of the
new forms of art was the design of posters and advertisements intended to catch the
imagination and generate special interest in the audience, primarily the buyers, but also
beyond. One of the important elements to be mentioned about early advertisements in the
magazines is that it is rather art than a marketing outcome. Advertisements as they stay
today, in the context of increased fragmentation of the audience, are carefully targeting the
individuals from distinct groups of potential buyers. Thus, the creative process starts only
after a clear identification of the target groups in a larger context of marketing mix. In the
early days of advertising, in the Art Nouveau context for example, it is the form and the
beauty that are prevalent, instead of the product and its uniquely shaped attributes that would
benefit an increasingly narrow segment of the general audience; the latter case occurs in a
context of a saturated market with dozens of similar products, serving similar ends. I can
conclude that advertising could afford to be first of all art and then a tool for selling. It served
its aim mainly by catching the eye via beauty.
Before radio and television could saturate the world with ads for soap products and soft
drinks, there was no easy way to share information with a large number of people. From a
historical perspective, the one that created the technology that enabled the development of
posters is Aloys Senefelder. He created the process of stone lithography in 1798. Until this
innovation, printing was expensive and tedious. At first, the craft of illustration was not very
developed, by the end of the eighteenth century the colors could not be reproduced on the
poster.
This new ability to combine words and images in an eye-catching, economical format
enabled the poster to become the major means of mass communication in Europe and
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America. In its first manifestations, from the advertising found in magazines and decorative
frontispieces in books to the poster art movement in France, a consciousness emerged that
type and lettering could be decorative and artistic and eyecatching in a way which had
previously never really been considered. Thus, the illustration became a resource just a little
later, after the discovery of the capacity of manipulating fonts and graphic forms. The
concept of display and ornamental type started with newspaper and poster designers taking
regular text styles and using them in enormous sizes, or developing italic or slightly
embellished styles for emphasis within text.
By the 1870’s Paris was a gaudy mélange of posters; they were posted to kiosks, train
stations, buildings, carriages and pissoirs. They advertised everything: sporting and cultural
events, new products, political protests, book publications and beautiful women.
In France, the poster quickly became an art form. In 1891 Toulouse-Lautrec’s first poster,
Moulin Rouge, boosted the status of the poster from ephemera to fine art. His bold
compositions, simple incisive lines, and expert use of angles and perspectives introduced a
whole new style in poster art. Toulouse-Lautrec and his artist followers made obvious
statements in their poster designs. Jack Rennert calls this “caricature plus”. A caricature
makes comments by the use of distortion, insult, and exaggeration, yet, in a subtle, indirect
way.
Posters took over the cities of Europe, with subjects that varied from country to country.
In France, the café was the center of life. Absinthe, champagne and other alcoholic beverages
were main advertising topic. Italy produced dramatic, large scale opera and fashion posters.
Spain celebrated the bullfight, while Germany promoted her trade fairs and magazines. At the
same time, in America of the time, the posters were not considered art, but merely a mean of
relaying information to the public. In America, the most common posters were letterpress
announcements of upcoming events such as slave auctions, circuses. “Wanted” posters
covered the walls of post offices and banks. The text was the thing in the 18th and 19th
century American posters.
French culture promoted poster art. Rapidly growing cities, and expanded commerce and
industry created new wealth among a large number of people. A middle class was born, with
discretionary income and leisure time to help them revel in their new status and lifestyle.
They read, went to the theater, and learned to appreciate music and art. Literature flourished.
Lavish illustrations and appealing covers became the style. Bookstores became more
commercial, and often placed small cardboard placards in their windows to display an
illustration from a new book or its cover. Thus art joined text in the poster as Rennert
explains it.
Nevertheless, after the turn of the century the poster craze declined, particularly in Paris.
Mucha moved to America, and eventually back home to Czechoslovakia. Along with the end
of the Belle Epoch came the decline of Art Nouveau. Although it remained the major
international art movement until World War I, its novelty and appeal waned. Few poster
catalogues were published, and poster shows became obsolete.
World War I dramatically changed the poster’s focus, and stimulated the largest
advertising campaign to date. Communication was an integral part of the war effort; posters
were the ideal solution. Typical war posters urged the public to buy war bonds, enlist in the
military, volunteer, boost production, and despise the enemy. Huge numbers of posters were
printed during WWI. In the United States, approximately 20 million posters were printed in
two years. These wartime posters caught the attention of the Bolsheviks, who in turn used
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them as propaganda tools in their civil war against the Whites. Lenin set the standard for
making the poster a major weapon that could be used in wars everywhere.
4. The exemplary figure of Alphonse Mucha
I chose to illustrate the link between mass-culture, the
advertising poster and Art Nouveau with the figure of Alphonse
Mucha not because of lack of options but because this artist not only
produced works of art, but also theorized his vision about art and
decoration in his book Documents Decoratif. Besides, there are
authors that consider him as Art Nouveau, the very representative
that set the principles and put them into practice in a variety of ways,
ranging, from jewelry to scene decorations, from theatre posters to
adverts for soap. Every component of this style is seen in Mucha’s
art: elaborate, nature-themed ornamentation; idealized female
subjects; fine drawing and the use of symbolism and allegory.
Born in Moravia in the second decade of the nineteenth century,
in 1860, Alphonse Mucha emerged first as a starving-artist sort of
student in Vienna and Munich for a few years of his youth, and then
for some more years in Paris. Living above a Cremerie that catered
to art students, drawing illustrations for popular, therefore low-
paying, magazines, getting deathly ill and living on lentils and
borrowed money, Mucha met all the criteria of a bohemian artist. At
the same time, he was formulating his own theories and precepts of
what he wanted his art to be.
After a few difficult years in Paris, it was during the Christmas
holiday when Sarah Bernhardt needed a poster immediately. On
January 1, 1895, Mucha thus had the chance to present his new style
to the citizens of Paris. Called upon over the Christmas holidays to create a poster for Sarah
Bernhardt's play, Gismonda, he put his precepts to the test. The poster was the declaration of
his new art, the near life-size design was a sensation. The whole story runs that the city’s
leading poster artists were busy and that Bernhardt reluctantly used Mucha. Nevertheless, his
poster was immediately an overwhelming success, and Mucha became the theatre director
favorite artist.
Mucha was an overnight success at the age of 34, after seven years of hard work. By 1898,
he had moved to a new studio, illustrated Ilsee, Princess de Tripoli, and had begun
publishing graphics with Champenois, a new printer anxious to promote his work with
postcards and panneaux - sets of four large images around a central theme (four seasons, four
times of day, four flowers, etc.). Thus, it is quite obvious that in the good tradition of Art
Nouveau the artist is encompassing different fields where decoration needed, this being as
well as sign of the changing worlds, of the opening of opportunities and areas that could be
covered by art. To paint was no longer just to draw paintings but to approach new sites and
what I consider very important, to become visible to a larger audience, to be part of the mass-
culture via the species of poster or via decorating theatre scenes.
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Mucha also became affiliated with several elite beverage companies. His poster for
Ruinart, the first champagne company, featured an elegance demune young woman, seemed
to personify elegance except for her hair, which had taken on a life of its own. This out of
control coiffure hinted the "heady" effects of Champagne Ruinart. In all his posters the hair
of the omnipresent girls is strirling around the canvas, in a wild and sensual manner,
encompassing the products to be advertised, becoming the decoration by excellence in the
artist’s view. Anyway, the hair is a trademark of Alphonse Mucha, is the element that defines
his works and that make him recognizable immediately. It is visible thus that the object
comes second after the artist artistic specificity, in this case the ‘hair’ trait of Mucha.
I should mention here what I consider to be one of the fundamental elements of the early
advertising poster, the works of Mucha coming to illustrate the point I am trying to make. In
the contemporary understanding, the object is the hero and the copywriter is an anonymous
contractor in the service of the producer. While the artist was the one that made the product
to be sold at the turn of the last century, at the moment the importance of the advert producer
has faded away to be replaced by the unique features and attributes of the product to be
advertised. Thus, in the contemporary advertising the author is not present in the final
product; the advertisement cannot be attributed to an artist, the one that has created it, which
is usually a team, stay behind as employees of an advertising company.
The situation was different by the end of the nineteenth century but things were starting to
change with the Italian artist poster designer Leonetto Cappiello that introduced the concept
of brand identity, thus raising the product and its attributes to the centre of the creative
product and starting to leave the author behind. Cappiello’s concept of brand identity became
the foundation of modern advertising.
Mucha was popular and his posters and other forms of decorations sold immediately
because they were produced by the artist. The product to be advertised was indeed present in
the poster, a piece of bicycle in round shapes emerging from the hair of a young girl, at the
same time, Mucha was given work to do because people were familiar with his style, they
liked it and they wanted to recognize him and to enjoy one more of his pieces. In this case, it
is apparent that the product advertised comes second, after the artist that it is not for the soap
in itself that Mucha was putting his creative energy in, but that this product was a pretext for
the artist to express himself and to create beauty. To conclude, he was the end and not the
mean and this is a striking difference from the contemporary advertisement environment.
This is also an element that shows that even if produced for economic ends, the posters were
first of all works of art that were important because of the author that put them to live and not
for transmitting the special attributes of the product advertised.
At the World's Fair in Paris in 1900 Mucha designed the Bosnia-Hercegovina Pavilion. At
the same time, he partnered with goldsmith Georges Fouquet in the creation of jewelry based
on his designs. The bronze, Nature is from this time period. He also published Documents
Decoratifs, his attempt to pass his artistic theories on to the next generation. In actuality, it
provided a set of blueprints to Mucha's style and his imitators wasted no time in applying
them. The fact that the epigones have been around the maestro can be telling in several ways.
It shows that his style was much admired as an artistic intervention but also as a popular way
of touching the ground, thus being appropriated by the emerging mass-culture. He would
have not been copied had he not responded to the public taste, providing with the elements
that were considered beautiful and worth admiring at the time. This is the element that makes
me state again that Mucha was the men of his epoch, elaborating a style that is both
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artistically sound and publicly accepted. A second element deriving from the fact that others
borrowed his style is that Mucha reached much further than he envisaged. He entered more
households in this indirect manner and had been present on more streets, cafes and boulevard
than he could ever do with the 100 posters that he actually produced.
Mucha is considered until today to be a master lithographer and colorist, and created about
100 posters and decorative panels. Today, his body of work continues to be admired and
collected. Special exhibits of his posters have traveled around the world. His fame spread
around the world and several trips to America and resulted in covers and illustrations in a
variety of U.S. magazines. Portraiture was also commissioned from U.S. patrons. At the end
of the decade he was prepared to begin what he considered his life's work.
Mucha was always a patriot of his Czech homeland and considered his success a triumph
for the Czech people as much as for himself. In 1909 he was commissioned to paint a series
of murals for the Lord Mayor's Hall in Prague. He also began to plan out The Slav Epic - a
series of large paintings chronicling major events in the Slav nation. Mucha had hoped to
complete the task in five or six years, but instead it embraced 18 years of his life. Twenty
massive (about 24 x 30 feet) canvasses were created and presented to the city of Prague in
1928. Covering the history of the Slavic people from prehistory to the nineteenth century,
they represented Mucha's hopes and dreams for his homeland. In 1919 the first eleven
canvases were completed and exhibited in Prague, and America where they received a much
warmer welcome.
The style of Mucha influenced many other artists and designers and when Mucha returned
to his native Czechoslovakia he spurred a renaissance of art and design in Eastern Europe,
which eventually developed into the cubist and futurist movements in art which had a great
influence on designers around the world in the period between the two world wars.
5. Conclusion
To conclude, the fin-de-siecle period as well as the first years of the twentieth century
witnesses the apparition of a growing middle class, together with an increase in the overall
literacy of the masses and the emergence of mass-culture. These social factors should be
understood in due terms. I speak of mass-culture but I rather refer to a still high-culture that
is penetrating via the increasingly various manifestations of art the lives of the common
people. Art is no longer part of a closed world of aristocracy but as well enters the streets; the
main genre that is provoking the sudden exposure of the population to art I consider to be the
poster. I do not dismiss the existence of previous forms of art visible to the many, but I argue
that their repertoire was first of all religious and the reception was intended as an
embracement of the sacred rather than as purely aesthetic, action. Certain technological
developments allowed the secular art forms to spread, as well as the readiness of artists to
take them over and use it as a legitimate format for art.
It should also be remembered the proliferation of printed press, the emergence of cheap,
the so-called penny press that added to the access of the population to the printed formats.
Another effect of the proliferation of the cheap print is as well the emergence of advertising
as a mean of reaching the audience via eye-catching adverts. It is also worth noting the
collaboration between artists and the producers of all sorts of products. This type of
sponsoring the work of art, but not for itself but for commercial reasons has a far reaching
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effect in making the art accessible to the emerging consumer eye. The link between art and
street could be seen in the all-encompassing ideology of Art Nouveau that has as declared
mission statement the erasure of the distance between art and life, thus including in the
legitimate forms of art formats ranging from painting theatre scenes to jewelry, shop-keepers
firms to theatre and advertising poster, yet as well public institutions like metro stations in
Paris. It is Art Nouveau that encouraged the emergence of new forms of culture, a mass-
culture, in other words, it was the movement that best responded to the needs and
transformations of the society. Nevertheless, it is an art movement that resonated all over
Europe under different names and shapes and was vigorous from the last years of the
nineteenth century up to the World War I.
To conclude, Cheret’s color stone lithography laid the groundwork for the modern poster,
and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec brought it to the forefront in the 1890’s while Alphonse
Mucha is considered by many the Art Nouveau. He was using the technology representing
commercial brands from champagne to soap, in a hybrid style of beautiful art and
persuasiveness characteristic for advertising. The Art Nouveau movement spurred a
renaissance in font design, hand-lettered posters and advertising titles by artists like Alphons
Mucha were in great demand. The Poster Art movement grew out of Art Nouveau and the
poster became the major new medium for popular art by the turn of the century.
In those times of great changes and the emergence of an increasing larger public and
incipient forms of mass-culture, the creations of Alphonse Mucha stay as emblematic for the
period, they are the ones that define the style and the beauty for several years in Paris, more
specifically from 1895 until around 1905 when Mucha himself changed his destiny by
dedicating his life to the Slav Epic, departing from the Parisian lifestyle and popular glamour
of boulevards and theatres decorated with works of art.
Nevertheless, by World War II, radio and newspapers became the poster’s major
competitors. From the fifties on, television took over some of the functions that the posters
and illustrations had previously held. Mass culture and the availability of art and beauty have
become naturalized in the last decades, but it is not to be forgotten that it was Art Nouveau
and artists like Mucha that believed in the democratization of art and in the right of the
common people to have access to beauty in its most various and mundane forms.
Ovidius University, ConstanŃa
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