This presentation was a part of a course on Art, History and Society. It covers the ideologies of Art Nouveau period and discusses in depth about one of the pioneers of that era Hector Guimard. The presentation also includes some of his famous works like Colliot House, Paris Metro, Humbert-de-Romans, etc.

1. Art Nouveau-Hector Guimard
Art, History and Society

2. Art Nouveau- Introduction
This movement began in Europe in the 19th-20th
century. The main focus of this movement was to
modernize design.
The movement was committed to abolishing the
traditional hierarchy of the arts, which viewed so-
called liberal arts, such as painting and sculpture, as
superior to craft-based decorative arts.
Artists drew inspiration from both organic and
geometric forms, evolving elegant designs that
united flowing, natural forms with more angular
contours.

3. Art Nouveau- key ideas
• The practitioners of Art Nouveau sought
to revive good workmanship, raise the
status of craft, and produce genuinely
modern design.
• Art Nouveau artists sought to
overturn the widespread belief that
media such as painting and sculpture
were superior to crafts such as furniture
design and silver- smithing.
• they evolved a belief that the function of
an object should dictate its form.

4. Hector Guimard
Hector Guimard was an architect, who is now the best-known
representative of the French Art Nouveau style of the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries.
Guimard's critical reputation has risen since the 1960s, as many art
historians have praised his architectural and decorative work, the best of it
done during a relatively brief fifteen years of prolific creative activity.
• 1885 Guimard begins studying at the École Nationale et Speciale des
Beaux-Arts in Paris
• 1891 Guimard becomes an Assistant professor in descriptive geometry,
shadow, and perspective drawings
• 1892 Professor the following year in of the girls' section

5. Hector Guimard- Castel Béranger(1898)

6. Hector Guimard- Coilliot house(1898)

7. Hector Guimard- Humbert-de-Romans(1901)

8. Hector Guimard- Paris Metro (1907)

9. Hector Guimard- Hotel Guimard (1909)