ART NOUVEAU Name: Khadija Yousuf Alkhamis ID : Instructor: Stefan Messam ART 351

OUTLINE:  Birth Of Art Nouveau  Introduction: ART Nouveau -Time and Place -Main feature of Art Nouveau  Architecture Features Famous Architect work  Furniture  Pottery/glassware  Painting  Graphic Design/illustration  Beginning for Art Deco  References

BIRTH OF ART NOUVEAU  The last third of the 19 th C meaning 20 th c.  Development approach to Architecture and interior design  All over Europe  Beginning of 1890s in the birth of Art Nouveau.

INTRODUCTION : ART NOUVEAU  The name Art Nouveau is French for the word “New Art”  The name 'Art Nouveau' derived from the name of a shop in Paris, Maison de l'Art Nouveau (House of New Art), that showcased objects that followed this approach to design

INTRODUCTION : ART NOUVEAU  Represents the Beginning of Modernism in Design (modern Architecture )  It occurred at a time when mass-produced consumer goods began to fill the market place.  Art Nouveau designers simultaneously rejected traditional styles in favor of new, organic forms connection with Nature.

TIME & PLACE  Art Nouveau art and architecture flourished in major European cities between 1890 and 1914.

IT EMBRACED ALL FORMS OF ART & DESIGN  Architecture  Interior design  Furniture  Glassware  Graphic design  Painting  Pottery  Metal work  Textile

MAIN FEATURE OF ART NOUVEAU STYLE:  Inspiration from Nature.  Flat, decorative pattern.  Intertwined organic forms such as stems or flowers.  Use of Curved lines and asymmetry.  An emphasis on handcrafting as opposed to machine manufacturing.  Tendency to stylization of the forms (strictly realistic representations)  Use of female images in delicate and grateful attitudes.  The use of new materials  And the rejection of earlier styles.  Freedom in the use of exotic themes, fantasy or inspiration in different culture, such as the use of Japanese prints.

ARCHITECTURE FEATURES:  Art Nouveau buildings have many of there features: -Asymmetrical shapes. -Extensive use of arches and curved forms -Curved glass -Curving, plant-like embellishments -Mosaics -Stained glass -Japanese motifs.

ART NOUVEAU ARCHITECT & HIS WORK:  Victor Horta  Belgian architect and designer  January – September  His work: Hotal Tassel

HOTEL TASSEL  Hotal Tassel  Brussels, Belgium  Construction started 1893  Completed 1894  First Art Nouveau Building in the world.

STAIRWAY OF TASSEL HOUSE

FURNITURE  This chair’s back uses Art Nouveau’s organic plant-like motifs.

POTTERY AND GLASSWARE  Obvious plants like decorative motifs make this vase distinctively Art Nouveau.  A more delicate and elegant variation on plant-like lines.  This decorative center piece was made of blown glass mounted in silver and wood.

ART NOUVEAU PAINTING  Women are predominant, eroticism leads to the perversion.  Technically it insists on the purity of the line, which gives a two- dimensional character, and the expressiveness of the drawing.  The organic forms, especially curved and spiral(plants, flowers, leaves, twisted stems which fills all the space)  They preferred elongated and oblong formats.

 Magnolias, theo van rysselberghe  On this image, we can observe that the flowers are occupying almost all the space of the picture. PAINTING

GRAPHIC DESIGN/ILLUSTRATION

BEGINNING OF ART DECO  When art nouveau fell out of fashion in the 1920 & 1930s, it was replaced by clean, simple geometries of Art Deco.  The extravagant curves of Art Nouveau were seen as old- fashioned and viewed with contempt.

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