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    Art Nouveau was an international decorative art style popular between 1890 and 1910 that reacted against academic 19th century art. Inspired by natural forms like plants and flowers, it used flowing, organic lines. Art Nouveau embraced a wide range of art forms including architecture, painting, furniture and more. By 1910, it had fallen out of favor and was replaced by styles like Art Deco and Modernism.

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    Art Nouveau was an international decorative art style popular between 1890 and 1910 that reacted against academic 19th century art. Inspired by natural forms like plants and flowers, it used flowing, organic lines. Art Nouveau embraced a wide range of art forms including architecture, painting, furniture and more. By 1910, it had fallen out of favor and was replaced by styles like Art Deco and Modernism.

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    Art Nouveau was an international decorative art style popular between 1890 and 1910 that reacted against academic 19th century art. Inspired by natural forms like plants and flowers, it used flowing, organic lines. Art Nouveau embraced a wide range of art forms including architecture, painting, furniture and more. By 1910, it had fallen out of favor and was replaced by styles like Art Deco and Modernism.

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    Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture and applied art,

    especially the decorative art, that was most popular between 1890 and
    1910 A reaction to the academic art of the 19th century, it was inspired
    by natural forms and structures, particularly the curved lines of plants and
    flowers. English uses the French name Art Nouveau (new art). The style
    is related to, but not identical with, styles that emerged in many countries
    in Europe at the same time. Art Nouveau is a total art style: It embraces a

    wide range of fine and decorative arts, including architecture, painting,


    graphic art,interior design, jewelry, furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass art,
    and metal work.

    Art Nouveau is a total art style: It embraces a wide range of fine and
    decorative arts, including architecture, painting, graphic art,

    interior design, jewelry, furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass art, and metal
    work.

    By 1910, Art Nouveau was already out of style. It was replaced


    as the dominant European architectural and decorative
    style first by Art Deco and followed by

    Modernism. Art Nouveau took its name from the Maison de l'Art
    Nouveau (House of the New Art), an art gallery opened in 1895 by the
    Franco-German art dealer Sigfried.

    The term Art Nouveau first appeared in the Belgian art journal L’Art
    Moderne in 1884 to describe the work of Les Vingt, a society of 20
    progressive artists that included James Ensor. These painters
    responded to leading theories by French architect
    Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and British critic John Ruskin, who
    advocated for the unity of all arts. In December 1895, the German-born
    art dealer Siegfried Bing opened a gallery in

    Paris named “Maison l’Art Nouveau.” Branching out from the Japanese
    ceramics, Bing promoted this “new art” in the gallery, selling a selection
    of furniture, fabrics, wallpaper, and objets d’art. Encouraging the
    organic forms and patterns of Art Nouveau to flow

    from one object to another, the movement’s theorists championed a


    greater coordination of art and design. A continuation of
    democratic ideas from Britain’s Arts and Crafts

    movement, this impulse was as political as it


    was aesthetic. The movement’s

    philosophical father, the English designer and businessman William


    Morris, defined its

    main goals: “To give people pleasure in the things they must use, and
    they must make.”

    He insisted that functional design be incorporated into the objects of


    everyday life, and

    his mix of aesthetics and ethics rejected the heavy


    ornamental qualities of the 19th

    century, specifically the cumbersome, almost suffocating


    excesses of the Victorian

    period. His ideas manifested as many distinct national


    flavors. Art Nouveau was a
    reaction against 19th-century academic styles and an expression of desire
    by artists and

    architects to create a new style for the coming turn of the century. In
    other words, new art

    for a new age. Art Nouveau involved a philosophy that


    beautiful things could benefit

    people who saw them. The end of the


    19th-century was a time of increasing

    industrialization and mass production of cheap, poorly-made


    goods. Artists, designers, and architects reacted against this, wanting a
    return to good craftsmanship and believing that art should be incorporated
    back into everyday life.

    Art Nouveau was a total style, an expression of an idea known as


    Gesamtkunstwerk, the thought that all the arts should be
    reintegrated. People who worked in Art Nouveau

    included fine artists and illustrators, textile and


    wallpaper designers, and glass and jewelry designers. They
    also pursued work like interior design, furniture design, and

    architecture. Beauty and design were just as important to functional


    objects like buildings

    as they were in fine art, and architects became some of the most
    prominent practitioners of Art Nouveau

    THE LEADERS OF THE ART NOUVEAU


    William Morris, Louis Tiffany and Gustav Klimt

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