The Modern Movement in Art and Design (Class 1) Flashcards
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Left: Renoir, The Judgment of Paris - was impressionist
Right: Cezanne, Bathers - was post impressionist

The Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London
built by Joseph Paxton
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August Pugin (UK)
Heavily influenced the Arts & Crafts Movement
He had a midieval style and his tapestries were the same

August Pugin
Left: designs from book ‘Florated Ornament’
Right: Palace of Westminster Wall Paper

William Morris (UK)
First purveyor of the Arts & Crafts movement
Stripping all new industrialism
Influenced by A.W.N. Pugin

William Morris Wallpaper
Blue (on right) was in his house

Philip Webb (UK)
Built the Red House
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Red House
Philip Webb - Architect
William Morris - Interior Design
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Interior of Red House
Philip Webb (Architect)
William Morris (Designer)
Simpler design - instead of higher end/polished
has mideival references
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Interior of Red House, London
Architect: Philip Webb
Designer: William Morris
Boards instead of spindles

Baillie Scott
Arts & Crafts Style

Baillie Scott Renderings
brings in color, patterns, all parts of Arts & Craft
Pugin influenced

Blackwell House, England
Baillie Scott
Often find this style in Nashville
Arts & Crafts movement

Edwin Lutyens
Deanery Gardens, England
references to Old England but some modernism in it

C.F.A. Voysey (English Architect)
probably most well known
Architect
Furniture
Arts & Crafts
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The Orchard House, England
C.F.A. Voysey
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Voysey
The Orchard House
plans wouldn’t work today
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Entry at The Orchard House
Voysey

Voysey textile
Voysey Furniture - very A&C style
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Henry Hobson Richardson
American Architect practicing in Boston
had a Celtic style
big fan of Pugin
Arts and Crafts
Heavily influenced Louis Sullivan (Louis worked for Richardson)

Trinity Church, Boston
Henry H. Richardson
Romanesque style
half-circle arches

Trinity Church
H. H. Richardson
ornamental style that was America’s take on the Arts & Crafts movement

Stoughton House, Cambridge
H. H. Richardson

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Frank Furness
a little middle eastern feel to it as well as gothic

Bruce Price - Architect
Travis Van Buren Residence
bending shingles

Bruce Price - Architect
William Kent Residence, Tuxedo Park, NY
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Candice Wheeler Patterns
Probably the first Interior Designer, an important femail designer
She was partners with L.C. Tiffany
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L.C. Tiffany - lamps and pottery
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L.C. Tiffany stained glass , lamp
Chair by L.C. Tiffany and Samuel Colman
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Gustov Stickley
his furniture is sought after
he was a German immigrant
a lot of A&C stuff that is inspired almost entirely by William Morris
It’s simple
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Gustav Stickley Morris Chairs
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Louis Sullivan (Chicago)
worked for H.H. Richardson in Boston
His designs were a little more symmetrical and geometric
He employed Frank Lloyd Wright (his first employer) and George Elmslie

Louis Sullivan
Chicago Stock Exchange entrance
very Celtic carving
all desings were inspired by Pugin and A&C movement

Louis Sullivan
Guaranty Building, NY
terracota carvings
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George Elmslie
worked for Louis Sullivan
similar style to Sullivan
reminds of F.L. Wright but more ornamental
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George Elmslie
looser, Art Nuveau direction
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Frank Lloyd Wright
more geometric direction
employed by Louis Sullivan

Frank Lloyd Wright
Unity Temple
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Robie House
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Frank L Wright
Robie House
liked high back chairs because it created a space within a space
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FL Wright
Francis W. Little House
influencial to modernism
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Frank Lloyd Wright Chairs
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Greene and Greene
West Coast
Arts & Crafts
brothers
Their work is Japanese inspired, there’s joinery involved
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Gamble House
Greene & Greene
very strong Japanese influence, joinery involved
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Gamle House (CA)
Green & Greene
Japanese Influenced
very much about the wood joinery
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Gamble House
Greene & Greene
Arts & Crafts
lower ceilings
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Bernard Maybeck
First Church of Christ Scientist

Bernard Maybeck
Castenada House

Dirk Van Erp
industrial designer
electrical and lamp designer

Bernard Maybeck
Power House
birdhouse built into house
Aesthetic Movemnt
Aesthetic movement was one of the big connecting pieces in England between the Arts & Crafts period and what was happening on the continent and France

Goslinsky & Kellogg Houses
Bernard Maybeck

Edward William Godwin (UK)
looks like it came out of the Bauhaus

Owen Jones (UK)
Pattern

James McNeill Whistler (UK)
Peacock Room
looks Art Nuveau but something English to it

James McNeill Whistler
Peacock Room
Aesthetic Movement
great examples:
Writers:
Edgar Allen Poe
Oscar Wilde
Design: Owne Jones (UK)
Edward William Godwin (UK)
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Night
Ferdinand Holder (Swiss)
Symbolist movement
exploring your subconscious
Shows a style - elongated figures that start to creep their way into the Art Nuveau period
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The Chosen One
Ferdinand Holder (Swiss)
elongated figures seen in Art Nuveau
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O Grave Where is Thy Victory
Jan Toorap (Dutch)
influenced Art Nuveau
indicative of the whiplash pattern
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The Three Brides
Jan Toorap (Dutch)
influenced Art Nuveau
noticeable whiplash pattern in this
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The Kiss
Gustov Klimt (Autrian)
this style was absorbed in the secessionist movement
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The Scream
Edvard Munch (Norwegian)
could be a part of the Art Nuveau movement
-the whiplash pattern
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Whiplash pattern associated with:
Art Nouveau
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Vienna’s “Art Nouveau” period was called:
Jugendstil & The Secession
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Italy’s “Art Nouveau” movement was called:
Stile Liberty
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Spain’s “Art Nouveau” movement was called:
Arte Moderno
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Russia’s “Art Nouveau” movement is called:
Stil Moderne
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France’s “Art Nouveau” was called:
Art Nouveau
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Belgium’s “Art Nouveau” movement was called:
Art Nouveau

Paris Opera House ceiling repainted by Marc Chagall
How impressionism ended up claiming the interior of a very classical inspired interior

Left: Rococo Table
Right: Art Nuveau dest with French inspiration
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4 Influences on Art Nuveau:

- Arts and Crafts Movement & Aesthetic Movement
- Post Impressionism and Symbolist Art (Van Gogh, Munch, Klimt)
- Japanese Art (also influence Arts and Crafts movement)
- Viollet -le-Duc (a French classical architect but also an innnovator in structural design)
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Arthur Mackurdo - a progressive English architect and designer who influenced the Aesthtic Movement.
Left: a very symmetrical piece with filigree and a pattern
Center: Chair - almost a sweeping pattern - a whiplash pattern
Right: poster has a whiplash pattern to it
Probably all inspired by Japanese art
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Viollet-le-Duc

a French Architect
was part of the 4 influences of the art nouveau mvmt
studied nature to come up with structural systems
one of the most important architects of the 20th century & beyond
replaced materials with new things
Aesthetic Movement
considered by a lot in England to be very “flowery” and a little stuffy. They weren’t keen on the design work of certain aesthetic movement. Thought it wasn’t structured in anything substantial.
The Arts and Crafts Movement also embodied the Aesthetic Movement

James McNeill Whistler, UK
Peacock Room
Japanese inspired
also an English Gothic style

James McNeill Whistler, UK
Peacock Room
Japanese inspired and English Gothic inspired
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Vision After the Sermon
Paul Gauguin
a style that took its subjects and reduced it to large blocks of space. he described it as an abstraction. He thought you should paint from memory instead of just depicting what you see.
He may have been one of the first modernist painters.
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Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Paul Gauguin
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The Olive Tree
Van Gogh
-had swiring effect in his paintings which is often times compared to Art Nuveau
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Night
Ferdinand Holder, Swiss
practicing in the symbolist movement
a lot to do with dreams, things that aren’t there or what your imagining
figures are elongated
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
poster designer that has a more cartoon look
employed a line-like pattern
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Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
Left: The Climax
Center: The Peacock Skirt
Right: John the Baptizer and Salome
heavily influenced by Japanese art
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
A leading figure in the aesthetic movement
An English illustrator and author
Beardsley’s contribution to the development of the Art Nouveau and poster styles was significant

Japanese teapots
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Violet-le-Duc
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Violet-le-Duc drawings
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Viollet-le-Duc drawings
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Examples of whiplash pattern associated with Art Nouveau
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Victor Horta, Belgium
architect and designer
probably the most recognizeable art nouveau parishoner
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Victor Horta
Masion de Peuple, Brussels
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Victor Horta
The Tassel House
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Victor Horta
The Tassel House
He always had light wells in the stairwell of the house
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Victor Horta
The Tassel House
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Victor Horta House
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Gustav Strauven
The Owl House
Belgian architect
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Henry Van de Velde
painter, architect and interior designer
moved all over Europe - was like an advertiser for the Art Nouveau movement. (Paris and Germany)
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Henrey Van de Velde
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Henry Van de Velde
furniture
painting
and lighting
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Hector Guimard, France
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Hector Guimard
Castel Beranger
exterior is in French romantic style and more Arts and Crafts
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Hector Guimard
he added some of the features (reinterpreted) from Viollet-le-Duc to Castel Beranger
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Hector Guimard
Castel Beranger
Doorway on the right has a rectangular transom over it. The archway was probably part of the original design so it stayed.
The Art Nouveau details are all paint on the walls or wrought iron details inset into the staircase
He adopted this style from Victor Horta
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Hector Guimard
He did all the metro stops in Paris
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Hector Guimard
furniture and light
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Hector Guimard
furniture and jewelry
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Hector Guimard
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Hector Guimard
Maison Coilliot, France

Emile Andre (French)
architect
artist
furniture designer
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Emile Andre
Hout House

Emile Galle (French)
Art glass designs
plants and animals inspired him

Emile Galle
Art glass

Emile Galle
Art Glass
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August Endell (German)
“spooky” looking architecture
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August Endell (German)
Atelier Elvira, Munich
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August Endell (German)
Buntes Theater, Berlin
Germany’s Art Nouveau was called:
Jugendstil “young style”
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Fyodor Shekhtel (Russian)
Ryabushinsky House, Moscow
He’s unusual becuase he’s seemingly Spanish in his work but he’s Russian
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Vienna’s Art Nouveau was called:
Jugendstil and The Secession
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Fyodor Shekhtel
Ryabushinsky House

Antonio Gaudi (Spain)
devout Catholic who believed everything he was doing was for God.
Most embodies what Viollet-le-Duc was trying to get to.
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Antonio Gaudi
Casa Batllo, Barcelona
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Antonio Gaudi
Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
Still not complete…expected to be in 2026
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Antonio Gaudi
Sagrada Familia Ceiling

Raimondo D’Aronco (Italy)
one of the few Art Nouveau practioners

main exhibition building designed by Raimondi D’Aronco in Italy.
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Carlo Bugatti
notable decorator
designer
manufacturer of art nouveau furniture, models of jewelry and musical instruments
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Carlo Bugatti furniture
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Carlo Bugatti furniture
African influence
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Carlo Bugatti furniture
Part of the snail set he designed
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Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh and Charles Mackintosh
she was probably the biggest inspiration of his work
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“The Glascow Four”
Margaret Mackintosh
Charles Mackintosh
Herbert McNair
Francis MacDonald
between them, they designed architecture, graphic design, fabric design, furniture, etc

The Glasgow Four
Scotland
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The Glasgow Four
Left: starts to get into a gridded look
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Mackintosh
The Room de Luxe at the Willow Tearooms, Scotland
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Mackintosh
The Room de Luxe at the Willow Tearooms,
highback chairs create a space within a space
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Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art on Renfrew Street
Scotland
brings imagery of castles
He’s a mixture of the arts and crafts and the art nouveau period
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Mackintosh
Hill House, Scotland
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Mackintosh furniture
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Mackintosh furniture
very rectalinear and linear work

Otto Wagner (Vienna)

Otto Wagner
Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station
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Otto Wagner
Majolica House, Vienna
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Otto Wagner
Majolica House
part of the art nouveau movement
an apartment complex
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Top Row, left to right
- Josef Hoffman
- Otto Wagner
- Mackintosh
- Josef Hoffman
Bottom Row, left to right:
- Peter Berrins
- Josef Hoffman
- Machintosh table

Josef Hoffman (Austrian)
architect who alsodesigned patterns, silverware and furniture
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Josef Hoffman
Sanatorium Purkersdorf
denies any classical reference
Two most significant architectural cities in the world (according to Don):
Vienna and Chicago
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Josef Hoffman
Palais Stoclet, Belgium
denies any classical reference

Josef Hoffman furniture
influence of Mackintosh here (lower left chair)
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Joseph Maria Olbrich
a co-founder of the Vienna Secession movement
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Joseph Maria Olbrich
The Secession Building
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Joseph Olbrich
Wedding Tower, Germany
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Otto Wagner (Austrian)
The Austrian Postal Savings Bank Building, Vienna
references to the symbolist painting movement
developing a new strategy for cladding a building in a less expensive way
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Otto Wagner
The Austrian Postal Savings Bank Building, Vienna
very no nonsense. Everything has a purpose.
Glass floor is directional
Seen as a departure point from Art nouveau
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The Great Wave Off Kanagawa
Hokusai’s wood cut block print, Japan
Heavily influenced the art nouveau period
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Hotel Van Eetvelde
Victor Horta (Belgian)
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Maison de Peuple section, Belgium
Victor Horta
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Maison de Peuple, Belgium
Victor Horta
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Hotel Solvay, Brussels
Victor Horta
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Hotel Solvay, Brussels
Victor Horta
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Hotel van Eetvelde, Brussels
Victor Horta
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The Austrian Postal Savings Bank Building, Vienna
Otto Wagner
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The Austrian Postal Savings Bank Building, Vienna
Otto Wagner