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Pinot Noir Art Nouveau
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This painting portrays two graceful ladies in the Art Nouveau style. They are holding beautiful wine goblets, surrounded by mountains and vineyards in the background.
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.
View other Art Nouveau paintings:
• Calalillies
• Lilies
• Pinot Noir
• Roses
• SnowdropsBrief History 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.
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.
Art Nouveau picqued in the years 1892 to 1902, and lasted until about 1910. One of the first Art Nouveau paintings can be found at Roquetaillade castle (France). Viollet-le-Duc restored the castle in the 1850's and even though his ideal was to create a Gothic revival, his fresque in the keep of the castle is a pure example of "pre" Art Nouveau style; organic movement, color and grace.
The first stirrings of an Art Nouveau, "movement" can be recognized in the 1880's, in a handful of progressive designs such as the architect-designer Arthur Mackmurdo's book cover design for his essay on the city churches of Sir Christopher Wren, published in 1883. Some free-flowing wrought iron from the 1880s could also be adduced, or some flat floral textile designs, most of which owed some impetus to patterns of High Victorian design.
A high point in the evolution of Art Nouveau was the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris, in which the 'modern style' triumphed in every medium. It probably reached its apogee, however, at the Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Decorativa Moderna of 1902 in Turin, Italy, where designers exhibited from almost every European country where Art Nouveau flourished.
Art Nouveau made use of many technological innovations of the late 19th century, especially the broad use of exposed iron and large, irregularly shaped pieces of glass in architecture. By the start of the First World War, however, the highly stylized nature of Art Nouveau design, which itself was expensive to produce, began to be dropped in favor of more streamlined, rectilinear modernism that was cheaper and thought to be more faithful to the rough, plain, industrial aesthetic that became Art Deco.Printing Technique
High-resolution, digital inkjet printers are used to reproduce these giclee prints. The paper on which the painting was printed on, is watercolor museum, digital fine art paper, made of 100% cotton fibers that are lignin-free, acid-free and chlorine free. The inks used are pigment based giclee inks, which ensure that the prints can last over 125 years without noticeable fading.
About Giclee Prints
The life of a print depends upon several things such as what type of ink is used on the substrate (paper, canvas, or photo papers). Other important factor's in determining the life of your print is the environment in which you hang it in and what kind of lighting surrounds your print, for instance, florescence or natural lighting. All of these variables add to the life expectancy of your giclee prints.
These fine art prints are of excellent quality, using a wide variety of colors, high resolution, and long lightfast properties such as archival substrates and pigment based inks, which will ensure an enduring life span of the giclee.
View the other Art Nouveau paintings:
• Calalillies
• Lilies
• Pinot Noir
• Roses
• Snowdrops
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