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Essay on The History of Art Nouveau
A movement that has made itself knows and present from 1880s to 1910s. This movement walked under the flag of an art that would break all connections to classical times, and bring down the barriers between the fine arts and applied arts. This approach was considered completely new and revolutionary, thus the New Art - Art Nouveau name. An artist should work on everything from architecture to furniture design so that art would become a part of everyday life. By making beauty and harmony a part of everyday life, artists make people's lives better.
This approach has been represented in painting, architecture, jewelry design, sculpture and furniture, but also very strongly in graphic art. Advertising posters were welcomed into art, and fence has been proclaimed a suitable exhibition place for this new art. Because of typical structured whiplash line used in all art forms, Art Nouveau obtained a nickname 'the noodle style' in French, 'Le style nouilles'. Typical for this style was artistic application of modern industrial techniques and modern materials (unmasked iron in architecture for example). Principal subjects are lavish birds and flowers, insects and poly formic femme fatale. Abstract lines and shapes are used widely as a filling for recognizable subject matter. Purposeful elimination of three-dimensions is often applied through reduced shading. Art Nouveau artifacts are beautiful objects of art, but not necessarily very functional (Kaplan, 1987).
By the turn of the century, having broken out of the confines of elite salons and galleries, it could be found providing form and decoration for the objects and surfaces of urban life: from train stations to menu cards, from private mansions to the dresses of exotic dancers, from posters to biscuit fins. By 1905 it was everywhere.A deeply eclectic style, Art Nouveau objects typically combined exotic sources.......
