6 Art Nouveau And Wiener Werkstätte

Question 1

Rectilinear art Nouveau

Answer 1

Tending toward geometry

Also used plant motifs and colors, but things lost their curves

Question 2

Alphonse mucha

Answer 2

A French curvilinear art nouveau artist

Worked a lot with female hair and natural colors, curvy letters influenced by plant forms

Question 3

Frank Lloyd Wright

Answer 3

And American rectilinear art nouveau artist
Robe house
Worked in arts and crafts, art nouveau, and Art Deco throughout his life
One of the 4 great architects in the 20th century
Believed in things being a “total work of art”
Buildings where rooms flowed into each other

Question 4

Glasgow 4

Answer 4

Charles mackintosh - hill house chair 
Margaret Macdonald 
Frances Macdonald 
Herbert McNair 
"Glasgow four" 
Handlettering looks like san-serif 
People morph into other things like plants and geometric forms

Question 5

People who perfected the rectilinear style

Answer 5

Kolomon moser, Alfred roller- Ver sacrum art nouveau magazine, people morphing into geometric forms
Gustav Klimt - part of secession (people who made money from industrialization helped fund young avant grade artists- moderate and controlled decoration), used radical amounts of white space and exquisite lettering
Josef Hoffman - organized the Vienna workshops, people worked hand and hand with manufacturers, so things aren’t totally handmade, clean lines and geometry

Question 6

Art nouveau

Answer 6

“The New Art”
People are theoretically trying to distance themselves from past art, make lots of art for decoration, like chairs, paintings, glass, etc
Kept plant motifs from arts and crafts
Curvilinear and rectilinear

Question 7

Curvilinear Art Nouveau

Answer 7

Curvy
Fascination with hair and other curves
Filled the entire picture with images
Used lots of plant motifs and natural colors