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Chapter 4: Make it elegent, AND MAKE IT FUNCTIONAL!!!!!!! Flashcards

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ART NOUVEAU

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-art nouveau dominated architecture and applied arts from the 1890’s until roughly 1906 -leading designer was Henry van de Velde from Belgium -line was perceived as something that could be abstract, symbolic, ornamental, or structural. -was both an artistic style, a decorative style, and an architectural style: art nouveau was a useable art form -heavy influence on advertising, especially through posters

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This Title is FAR too long.

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  • Against the Enamel of a background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones and Colors: Portrait of M. Felix Feneon in 1890, Paul Signac (1890)
  • Signac was a student of Seurat
  • holding an orchid(a symbol of his homosexuality), Felix is depicted on top of a swirling abstract pointillism background, which completely eradicates the space.
  • Felix was an art critic and a defender of modern works
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my pimps name is Nell

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  • Pimpernel, William Morris (1876)
  • Pimpernel flower is made into a pattern, very typical of english art nouveau artists
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building with swirls n’shit

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  • Facade, Atelier Elvira, Munich- August Endell (1897-98)
  • German word for Art Nouveau was Jugenstil which translates to useful style
  • The building is a photo shop
  • Swirling, curvilinear, organic, asymmetric shapes are made using stucco
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salome. no one likes you.

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  • Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, Aubrey Beardsley (1893)
  • Based on the poem about Salome
  • The print was censored in England but not in France -The stylized symbolic figures float on top of a a curvy patterned background that blends text with image.
  • Attractive image + repulsive content = decadence
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My job is getting lung cancer

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  • Job Cigarettes, Alphonse Mucha (1898)
  • very iconic poster, curving patterned backgrounds and stylized women were common in advertising
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Alphonse Mucha

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  • came from Czechoslovakia, Mucha was the most important and sought after poster artist
  • His stylized patterns and hair are icons of art nouveau
  • died just as hitler was coming into power
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you call yourself ABStract but do you even lift tho?

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  • Abstract Composition, Henry Van De Velde (1890) -abstracted curving shapes in solid colors
  • abstracted side of art nouveau
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will i still burn on an abstract beach

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  • Cover Illustration for Elskamp’s Dominical, Henry Van De Velde (1892)
  • integrates image with text -abstracted curvilinear beach and ocean
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lets be honest. jack hired a contractor who hired a builder.

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  • The House that Jack Built, Walter Crane (1875) -Wallpaper pattern
  • curvilinear shapes forming images from the children’s story
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if you have a lapis lazuli fire place you are radically extra

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  • Peacock Room, James McNeill Whistler (1876-77)
  • rooms combines art, decoration, and functionality
  • tails of the peacocks are curving and patterned, iconically art nouveau.
  • influenced by Japanese art and style
  • the room went way over budget
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James McNeill Whistler

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  • American artist and decorator
  • Flunked out of West point military acadamy because he was only good at drawing maps
  • was not well liked, had a very high opinion of himself
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burn baby BURN. and then get an architect the redesign your mistakes.

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  • Title Page for Wrens City Churches, Arthur H. Mackmurdo (1883)
  • Wren was an architect who designed the rebuilt churches after the great fire.
  • black curvilinear lines from with the Text
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dance with something cooler than veils. dance with lobsters or something.

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  • La Loie Fuller, Jules Cheret (1897) Poster
  • Image of an american dancer
  • her beauty was considered perfection during that time period
  • the poster shows her during a dance with veils that hints at her naked body beneath them
  • the veils take on stylized curvilinear shapes but they are not as clean and have no outlines which many art nouveau posters had
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smoochies

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  • The Kiss, Gustav Klimt (1907-08)
  • inspired by mosaics
  • gold leaf is used on the clothing of the figures, and the figured themselves do not have realistic proportions
  • ground is highly abstracted and patterned
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i expect a present

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  • The Gift/Expectation: study for the dining room wall mosaic at palais stoclet in brussels, Gustav Klimt (1905-09)
  • art nouveau influence, but mostly abstract
  • klimt rejected academy teachings
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HOLY SHIT A PHOTO THAT A LADY MADE DO WOMEN ARTISTS EVEN EXIST

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  • Portrait (Miss. N), Gertrude Kasebier (1903) -the woman in the photo has no sharp edges
  • roundness resembles poster of women inspired by art nouveau

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