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Art Nouveau Flashcards

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France, Spain name of design movement

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Art Nouveau

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Germany, and the Scandinavian countries name of design movement

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Jugenstil (the young style or the style of youth)

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Austria name of design movement

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Vienna Secession

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Art Nouveau main theme

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A rejection of Victorian styles and of historic imitation in revivals or through eclectic combinations precedents

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Art Nouveau directions can be traced in…

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graphic illustration

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Art Nouveau products and materials

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A willingness to take advantage of modern materials (iron and glass), modern techniques (industrial production), and such innovations as electric lighting
Don’t obsess over hand made products and materials

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Art Nouveau has a close relationship with the…

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fine arts, incorporating painting, bas relief, and sculpture into architecture and interior design

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Art Nouveau has use of decorative ornamentation based on…

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nature forms –flowers, vines, shells, etc. And abstract forms derived from these sources

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Curvilinear forms as dominant themes in…

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both basic structural elements and in ornamentation

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Art Nouveau ornamentation

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More ornamentation compared to arts and crafts movement

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Art Nouveau design specific or copied?

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Highly site specific for interiors and the furniture within them
May look ridiculous in a different space

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Art Nouveau surfaced in many fields and objects:

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Architecture, interior design. advertisements, painting, ceramics, decorative and functional objects (clocks, glassware, picture frames, etc.)

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A number of individuals identified with Arts and Crafts movement designed objects that embodied characteristics of…

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Art Nouveau

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Late 19th century:

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A period of peace and prosperity in continental Europe

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Economic growth generated larger upper and upper-middle classes that could…

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support new and experimental directions in design

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Victor Horta dates and who

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(1861-1947) Belgian architect and designer.

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Henry Van de Velde dates and who

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(1863-1957) Belgian artist, interior designer and architect

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Eugène Vallin dates and who

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(1856-1922) French furniture designer, architect, interior designer

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Hector Guimard dates and who

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(1867-1942) French architect

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Antoni Gaudi dates and who

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(1852-1926) Spanish architect

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Richard Riemerschmid dates and who

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(1868-1957) German artist, architect, interior designer

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Joseph Olbrich dates and who

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(1867-1908) Austrian architect

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Josef Hoffmann dates and who

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(1870-1956) Austrian architect

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Otto Wagner dates and who

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(1841-1918) Austrian architect

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Louis Comfort Tiffany dates and who

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(1848-1933) American artist, interior designer

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Louis H. Sullivan dates and who

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(1856-1924) American architect

27
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Charles Francis Annesley Voysey dates and who

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(1857-1941) architect, furniture designer, graphic designer

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Masson House DATE + LOCATION

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Nancy, France, 1903-14

29
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Masson House designer

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Eugène Vallin

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Tassel House DATE + LOCATION

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Brussels, 1892

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Tassel House designer

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Victor Horta

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Horta House DATE + LOCATION

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Brussels, 1892

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Horta House designer

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Victor Horta

34
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Hector Guimard

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public architecture still used today

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Castel Béranger DATE + LOCATION

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Paris, 1894-9

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Castel Béranger Designer

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Hector Guimard

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Casa Batlló DATE + LOCATION

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Barcelona, 1904-06

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Casa Batlló designer

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Antoni Gaudi

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Casa Batlló features

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highly animated spaces
curves

40
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Casa Batlló Floor Plan

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traditional in some ways
some angles make space difficult to use

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Art Nouveau issue

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Architecture and interiors not in traditional shapes
causes spaces to be hard to use

42
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Atelier Elvira DATE + LOCATION

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Munich, 1896

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Atelier Elvira designer

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August Endell

44
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Secession Exhibition devoted to works by the Glasgow Four

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(Mackintosh, Mackintosh, MacNair & MacNair), 1900

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Palais Stoclet DATE + LOCATION

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Brussels, 1905-11

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Palais Stoclet Designer

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Josef Hoffmann

47
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Palais Stoclet art work on walls by

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Gustav Klimt

48
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Palais Stoclet features

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not too curvilinear
starting art deco + modernism
straight lines

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Etienne Pernet DATE + DESIGNER

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1905
Alfred Wagon

50
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Auditorium Building DATE + LOCATION

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Chicago, 1886-90

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Auditorium Building DESIGNER

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Louis Sullivan

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Auditorium Building Features

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doesn’t look like art nouveau at first
different interpretation in different locations
features are in the small details

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Carson Pirie Scott Building designer

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Louis Sullivan

54
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Art Nouveau Furniture

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strange looking
spaces these pieces were in are most likely gone, but museums collect the furniture left

55
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Dining Room DATE + DESIGNER

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1900
Hector Guimard

56
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Kolomon Moser When and Who

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(1868-1918)
Austrian-Hungarian artist, Vienna Secession
pieces look art nouveau and art deco/modernism

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Chaise “Escargot” DATE + DESIGNER

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1902
Carlo Bugatti

58
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Bentwood Morris Chair Designer

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Josef Hoffmann

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