Art Nouveau and the Arts & Crafts Movement

ART NOUVEAU AND THE ARTS & CRAFTS MOVEMENT

ART NOUVEAU AND ARTS & CRAFTS Arts & Crafts Movement

Arts & Crafts Movement

The Arts & Crafts movement was a British and American style between 1880 and 1910 Basically rejected the cold, impersonal aesthetics brought on by the Industrial Revolution Objects made during the Arts & Crafts movement were smaller, affordable objects such as textiles, pottery, furniture, etc.

William Morris, “Artichoke Wallpaper”, c1897. ARTS & CRAFTS MOVEMENT Arts & Crafts Movement

The Gamble House, Pasadena, CA, 1908. Arts & Crafts Movement

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ARTS & CRAFTS MOVEMENT Arts & Crafts Movement Scene from “Back to the Future”

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Art Nouveau

(French for 'new art') is an international style of art, architecture and design that peaked in popularity at the beginning of the 20th century (1880-1914) and is characterized by highly-stylized, flowing, curvilinear designs often incorporating floral and other plant- inspired motifs.

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The French movement 'Art Nouveau' derived from the name of a shop in Paris, Maison de l'Art Nouveau, that showcased objects that followed this approach to design.

Louis Comfort Tiffany, Glass Vase, c1910.

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ART NOUVEAU Art Nouveau Art Nouveau-style Subway Entrances in Paris

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Victor Horta, Hotel Tassel, 1890s. ART NOUVEAU

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Hotel Tassel (Victor Horta) – 1st Art Nouveau Building in the World

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Antonio Gaudí, Casa Milà, 1905-1907. ART NOUVEAU

Gaudi was a Spanish (Catalan) Architect who created complex buildings in that the architecture was considered sculptural as well. His buildings are considered biomorphic, or organically- shaped. This is possibly a rejection to the coldness that a machine-produced geometric object would create.

ART NOUVEAU Art Nouveau Antonio Gaudí, Casa Milà, 1905-1907. ART NOUVEAU

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Antonio Gaudí, Casa Battlo Barcelona, Spain 1905-1907.

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Antonio Gaudí, La Sagrada Familia (The Holy Family), 1882-2026.

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ART NOUVEAU Art Nouveau Alphonse Mucha prints

ART NOUVEAU Art Nouveau Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt The Kiss 1907-08. VIENNA SUCCESSION (Austrian Art Nouveau) Gustav Klimt creating this work at the high point of his "Golden Period", when he painted a number of works in a similar gilded style. A perfect square, the canvas depicts a couple embracing, their bodies entwined in elaborate robes decorated in a style influenced by both linear constructs of the contemporary Art Nouveau style and the organic forms of the earlier Arts and Crafts movement. The work is composed of oil paint with applied layers of gold leaf, an aspect that gives it its strikingly modern, yet evocative appearance.

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Gustav Klimt The Kiss 1907-08. VIENNA SUCCESSION (Austrian Art Nouveau) The viewer gets the sense that the “Kiss” here might be unwanted… The woman doesn’t reciprocate with any expression, while somehow trapped between a cliff and a man who adores her.

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Gustav Klimt Judith with Head of Holofernes, 1901. VIENNA SUCCESSION (Austrian Art Nouveau)

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Gustav Klimt Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907. VIENNA SUCCESSION (Austrian Art Nouveau)

This record breaking sale of this piece was enabled by a court order by the Austrian government to return the painting to the Artist's rightful heir. The entire dispute lasted over a year and was necessary to return the painting that was looted by the Nazis during World War II. Skillfully painted in 1907 by the Art Nouveau master Gustav Klimt, the painting was purchased by Ronald S. Lauder, the cosmetics heir, in 2006.

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