Art Nouveau was an academic system which dominated art education from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century.
Their main ambition or goal was to see the distinction between the fine arts and applied arts being challenged.
In doing so Art Nouveau became an international style of art eventually - most of their works were accustomed as applied arts but ranged from decorative art - Jewellery, furniture, textiles and household utensils. Architecture, Graphic art, interior design and academic art.
These many forms of applied arts fused with fine arts resulted in this being named a total art style.
Their primary goal was established and needed to be fulfilled - they helped bridge the gap between fine and applied arts.
This was basically going against tradition because in the nineteenth century. It was seen as a modern style of art, and neglected the traditions of the fine arts - but really part of the reasons why it was instilled was to give all artists of all art form a spotlight or way to survive through their distinctive art style.
Was one of the first styles to go continental and in the later stages of time - International
Lithography played a huge influence in the molding of the Art Nouveau style - this made it famous in other terms
Japanism - influenced a lot about Art Nouveau [ Japanese art ]
from woodblock printing.
In a lot of Art Nouveau arts, Japanese woodblock printing was evident in their works, and also artists confessed in saying Japanese style of art influenced their work
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It demonstrated organic forms to its full extent making it seamlessly have flow within the artworks crested - they had natural and clear rainy images, which became extremely popular in Europe at the time this was happening
Their use of colour - the way they used their colours made their artworks focal point the drawing it self rather than the colours to extenuate the artwork - They mainly made their colours, flat, saturated and used arbitrary colours.
They intentionally made colour flat and made the focal point line and patterning.
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Alphonse Mucha
One of the pioneering artists that influenced Art Nouveau - Alphonse style of work was not just beautiful to the eye but was also at times controversial.
He worked producing Illustrations for the advertising world
Mucha was soo pivotal to the movement they even called it the New Art
He had a decorative art style that incorporated all aspects covered about Art Nouveau / He mainly used female figures and elongated hair / surrounded by natural flowing elements like Flowers.
He believed the woman's body was more organic.
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Thank you for your submission. However you really need to research the validity of your facts. Art Nouveau was not an Academic system and it was most assuredly did not exist from the seventeenth century. It only started in the last decade of the Nineteenth century. You only spoke about the Art Nouveau movement and did not analyse any contemporary artwork that was influence by the movement. READ YOUR BRIEF! Please pay attention to your spelling and grammar. Make sure that you write full sentences. It makes it very difficult to follow your arguments if I struggle to read what you wrote. Furthermore you need to reference your work. Please include and make use of the correct referencing formatting for your citations as well as a list of sources or a bibliography.
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