Lovely Art Nouveau
The Art Nouveau style is characterized by the use of sinuous graceful curving
lines, interlaced patterns, women, flowers, plants, and other motifs inspired
by nature. Art
Nouveau is one of my favorite art periods and I began experimenting with
its rhythmic fluid lines, flowing design, and the strength of its stylization
in my own work.
The top two paintings were created in gouache (opaque watercolor) and are available as museum quality giclee prints. "Pinot Noir," and "Goddess," are beautifully printed on fine art paper and would be perfect for someone who loves this style of art, as I do.
View Art Nouveau paintings and giclee prints:
• Calalillies
• Goddess
• Lilies
• Pinot Noir
• Roses
• Snowdrops
Character of Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau was an artistic movement involving painting, printmaking, decorative design, and architectural
styles, which developed in England in the 1880's. Its style influenced everything artistic; from furniture to jewelry.
It piqued in 1902 and lasted until about 1910.
Art Nouveau, primarily an ornamental style, was not only a protest against
the sterile Realism, but against the whole drift toward industrialization,
mechanization, and the unnatural artifacts they produced.
Dynamic, undulating, and flowing, with curved 'whiplash' lines of syncopated rhythm characterized much of Art Nouveau. Another feature is the use of hyperbolas and parabolas. Conventional mouldings seem to spring to life and 'grow' into plant-derived forms.
As an art movement it has affinities with the Pre-Raphaelites and the Symbolism movement and artists like Aubrey Beardsley, Alphonse Mucha, Edward Burne-Jones, Gustav Klimt, and Jan Toorop could be classed in more than one of these styles.
Unlike Symbolist painting; however, Art Nouveau has a distinctive visual look; and unlike the backward-looking Arts and Crafts Movement (although they were not backward at all), Art Nouveau artists quickly used new materials, machined surfaces, and abstraction in the service of pure design.
Art Nouveau in architecture and interior design eschewed the eclectic revival styles of the Victorian era. Though Art Nouveau designers selected and 'modernized' some of the more abstract elements of Rococo style, such as flame and shell textures, they also advocated the use of highly stylized organic forms as a source of inspiration, expanding the 'natural' repertoire to embrace seaweed, grasses, and insects.
Japanese wood-block prints, with their curved lines, patterned surfaces, contrasting voids, and flatness of visual plane, also inspired Art Nouveau. Some line and curve patterns became graphic clichés that were later found in works of artists from all parts of the world.
Art Nouveau did not negate the machine as the Arts and Crafts Movement did, but used it to its advantage. For sculpture, the principal materials employed were glass and wrought iron, leading to sculptural qualities even in architecture.
Art Nouveau is considered a 'total' style, meaning that it encompasses a hierarchy of scales in design such as, architecture, interior design, decorative arts including jewelry, furniture, textiles, household silver and other utensils, lighting, and the range of visual arts.
Article from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
View Art Nouveau paintings:
• Calalillies
• Goddess
• Lilies
• Pinot Noir
• Roses
• Snowdrops
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