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| User: | art_nouveau (1504008) Organic Forms and Whiplash Curves
A Harvest Of Spines And Thorns |
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| Name: | Art Nouveau | |
| Theme: | art nouveau | |
| Website: | Art Nouveau World Wide | |
| Location: | United States | |
| About: |  Welcome  The Art Nouveau (or Russian Modern) style (1880-1914) made its first appearance in the early 1880's and was gone by the eve of the first world war. For a brief, brilliant moment, Art Nouveau was a shimmering presence in urban centers throughout Europe and North America. It was the style of the age--seen on public buildings and advertisements, inside private homes and outside street cafés--adorning the life of the city. Floreated madness, linear hysteria, strange decorative disease, stylistic free-for-all; such were the terms its contemporaries used to describe Art Nouveau, the first international design style. Art Nouveau was a rebellion against the entire Victorian sensibility, steeped as it was in the past. The exponents of the style hoped to revolutionize every aspect of design in order to set a standard that would be compatible with the new age. For a relatively short period (it’s heyday lasted roughly 10 years), Art Nouveau was, as one critic wrote: "one of the most imaginative innovations in the history of design." It was a movement that enjoyed various independent forms of expression in many European countries. In the wake of an all-round desire for innovation, Art Nouveau manifested itself in all forms of design, from architecture to household commodities, from writing to posters, from magazines to books. Its stylistic components were derived from abstract forms and the processes of nature. In the sphere of visual communication, these symbolic pictorial elements were combined with the written text to form a compositional unity. For optimal stylistic symbiosis, single words, lines and whole aphabets were designed. There were not only new fonts, but also diverse floral ornaments for lead composition. Art Nouveau artists wanted to erase the distinction between major and minor arts. They aimed at unifying all art, centering it around man and his life. Therefore architecture, which has a direct influence on man's life, was the central art on which every skill is naturally integrated. Other main crafts/arts not related to architecture are placards and jewelery, with jewelery taking women as its center. Some art historians like to speak of an Art Nouveau style (as they would talk about Gothic, Roman, Baroco styles) as a decorative style which took its inspiration from nature and women, with this artistic period ending at the first world war.  Since we have so many artists in this community, I want you to know that this community is very artist friendly. If you have any work; past or present, which is germane to the community subject, please feel free to post it here. I am not adverse to original artwork, gallery links, auction listings, questions, written articles, anything pertaining to the topic or spirit thereof. This does not only include artwork, but period crafts and clothing as well. While I am very grateful to anyone who posts in here, I must ask that if an image is "too large" (I'll trust your judgement; say, 600 pixels) or you have multiple large images to post, please use an lj-cut. If you need something to shrink your pictures, you can try a free program called "Irfanview." I have linked to it here. Please be cordial to one another, or I invite you to leave. Some of the kindest things we choose to say to one another are things which we choose never to say. The scroll bar on your computers should be operative. I am using a font called Cupola for the community type. (I have my community screen area set to '1024 x 768' pixels) Thank you. спасибо.   your benevolent dictator: ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} pierce | |
| Interests: | 106: 1880's, 1890's, 19th century, absinthe, abstract art, alphonse mucha, antoni gaudi, antonio gaudi, architecture, aristide maillol, art, art deco, art exhibitions, art nouveau, arts and crafts movement, aubrey beardsley, avant garde, baroque, beauty, belgium, brussels, cassayas, celtic art, ceramics, charles rennie mackintosh, decadence, edmond-francois aman-jean, egon shiele, eugene grasset, exhibition, exoticism, fairies, fantasy, ferdinand hodler, fin de siecle, fin-de-siecle, florence weiskopf, flowers, france, fred hyland, george fouquet, georges de feure, georges lemmen, glassware, goth, gothic, gothic architecture, green fairy, gustav klimt, hector guimard, henri cassiers, henri de toulouse-lautrec, henry van de velde, ivy, jugendstil, jules cheret, koloman moser, leaves, leonetto cappiello, lillies, louis comfort tiffany, louis majorelle, lucien levy-dhurmer, moulin rouge, mucha, nature, neovictorian, new art, nouveau, nouveau art, ornamentation, painting, paris, pernod, pilters, posters, prague, pre-raphaelites, privat livemont, refinement, renaissance, rené lalique, sculpture, symbolism, theophile alexandre steinlen, victorian, victorian era, victoriana, vines, vintage, vintage art, vintage fashion, vintage hair, vintage posters, vintage sex, vintage wear, will h. bradley, william carqueville, william morris, women, архитектура, модерн, плакаты, скульптура, театр, тушь | |
| Maintainers: | 1: pierce | |
| Moderators: | 1: pierce | |
| Members: | 2050: View Members. | |
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