Art Nouveau

(noun)

Art Nouveau is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that was most popular during 1890–1910.

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  • Art Nouveau

    • Art Nouveau was an international style of art and architecture that was most popular from 1890–1910.
    • Art Nouveau is an international style of art and architecture that was most popular from 1890–1910 AD.
    • The name "Art Nouveau" is French for "new art".
    • His theories helped initiate the Art Nouveau movement.
    • For many Europeans, it was possible to live in an Art Nouveau-inspired house with Art Nouveau furniture, silverware, crockery, jewelry, cigarette cases, etc.

  • Changes in Technology

    • The work of some of these were a part of what is broadly categorized as Art Nouveau (New Art).
    • Note that the Russian word for Art Nouveau, Stil Modern, and the Spanish word for Art Nouveau, Modernismo, are cognates of the English word "Modern," though they carry different meanings.
    • Following the experiments in Art Nouveau and its related movements around the world, modernism in architecture and design grew out of stylistic threads originating throughout world.

  • European Expressionist Architecture

    • Expressionist architecture was a European movement of the twentieth century that came about in parallel with the expressionist visual and performing arts.
    • Expressionist architecture was an architectural movement that developed in Europe during the first decades of the twentieth century in parallel with the expressionist visual and performing arts.
    • Draws as much from Moorish, Islamic, Egyptian, and Indian art and architecture as from Roman or Greek
    • Form also played a defining role in setting apart expressionist architecture from its immediate predecessor, art nouveau, or Jugendstil.
    • While art nouveau had an organic freedom with ornament, expressionist architecture strove to free the form of the whole building instead of just its parts.

  • Modern Sculpture

    • Typically, modernist artists were concerned with the representation of contemporary issues as opposed to grand historical and allegorical themes previously favored in art.

  • Symbolism

    • Symbolism was a late 19th century art movement of French, Russian, and Belgian origin.
    • Symbolism was a late 19th century art movement of French, Russian, and Belgian origin that manifested in poetry and other arts.
    • Symbolists believed that art should represent absolute truths that could only be described indirectly.
    • The work of some symbolist visual artists, such as Jan Toorop, directly affected the curvilinear forms of art nouveau.

  • Germany and the United States

    • The term is applied to, or used as a name for, various art movements or other groups of artists in art history.
    • Near the end of the century, the Benedictine Beuron Art School developed a style in rather muted colors, mostly for religious murals, with a medievalist interest in pattern that drew from Les Nabis and in some ways looked forward to Art Nouveau or the Jugendstil ("Youth Style").
    • The Ashcan School was one of the founding movements that created the core of the new American Modernism in the visual arts.
    • Robert Henri (a member of the Aschan School), Snow in New York 1902, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
    • Differentiate Realism in Biedermeier German art from Realism in early 20th century American art

  • Dada and Surrealism

    • Dada was a multi-disciplinary art movement that rejected the prevailing artistic standards by producing "anti-art" cultural works.
    • The movement influenced later styles like avant-garde, and movements including surrealism, Nouveau réalisme, pop art and Fluxus.
    • The trio soon became the center of radical anti-art activities in the United States.
    • Some theorists argue that Dada was the beginning of postmodern art.
    • Duchamp's appropriation of a urinal as a piece of art challenged the prevailing definition of sculpture.

  • Art Movements of the 1920s

    • In art, the movements known as Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism all played major roles in reconfiguring the focus and perception not only of visual arts, but also literature, drama and design.
    • Art Deco was a dominant style in design and architecture of the 1920s.
    • The name Art Deco is short for Arts Décoratifs, which came from the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (International Exposition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) held in Paris in 1925.
    • The first use of the term is attributed to architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier, who wrote a series of articles titled, “1925 Expo: Arts Déco”, in his journal, L’Esprit Nouveau.
    • In the United States, New York City's Chrysler Building typified the Art Deco style.

  • Surrealism

    • Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for writing and visual art.
    • From the 1920s onward, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film, and music of many countries and languages, as well as political thought and practice, philosophy, and social theory.
    • The Dadaists protested with anti-art gatherings, performances, writings, and artworks.
    • Later Breton wrote, "In literature, I was successively taken with Rimbaud, with Jarry, with Apollinaire, with Nouveau, with Lautréamont, but it is Jacques Vaché to whom I owe the most. "

  • Art History Methodology