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Art Nouveau

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(1890-1910)

  • Art Nouveau = “New Art”
  • Influenced architecture, illustration, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, glassware and fabric design on a global scale
  • Known for the inclusion of dynamic, undulating lines and inspired by natural forms and structures.
  • influenced by Japonisme
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Japonisme

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Impressionism

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  • natural scenes and cropping
  • everyday people, unidealized figures
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Arthur Macmurdo’s book cover for Wren’s City Churches (1883)

Considered the first real image of Art Nouveau

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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(1864 - 1901)

  • Painter and poster illustrator inspired by Manet, Degas and Japanese wood block prints
  • His lithograph posters portray the decadent lifestyle of the French Belle Époque
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

At The Moulin Rouge (1892)

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Salon in the Rue des Moulin (1894)

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Moulin Rouge: La Goulue (1891)

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Flirt (An Englishman at the Moulin Rouge) (1892)

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Aristide Bruant dans son cabaret (1892)

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Jane Avril (1893)

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Alphonse Mucha

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(1860 -1939)

  • Czech artist known best for his illustrated posters, advertisements, and book illustrations.
  • So influential on the Art Nouveau movement that the style was originally called “Mucha Style” in France.
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Alphonse Mucha

Gismonda - featuring Sarah Bernhardt (1894)

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Alphonse Mucha

Biscuits Lefevre-Utile (1897)

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Alphonse Mucha

F. Champenois (1897)

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Alphonse Mucha

Dance (decorative panel) 1898

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Alphonse Mucha

Moet & Chandon (1899)

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Alphonse Mucha

Maude Adams as Joan of Arc (1909)

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Alphonse Mucha

The Slav Epic – The Celebration of Svantovit (1912)

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Aubrey Beardsley

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(1872 - 1898)

  • Eccentric British illustrator known as “the most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau Era”
  • Known for his black and white ink drawings that mixed elegant, detailed line work with decadent, erotic, and grotesque imagery
  • Incredibly prolific within his six year art career before dying of Tuberculosis at age 25
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Aubrey Beardsley

Siegfried, Act II (1892-3)

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Aubrey Beardsley

Salomé - The Peacock Skirt (1893)

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Aubrey Beardsley

Salomé - The Climax (1893)

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Aubrey Beardsley

Dreams (1894)

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Aubrey Beardsley

Lysistrata (1896)

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Aubrey Beardsley

Lysistrata (1896)

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Eugène Grasset

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(1845 - 1917)

  • Swiss born, Paris bred pioneer of Art Nouveau
  • His commissions by American Magazines in the 1880s and 90s helped pave the way for Art Nouveau in the United States
  • created a typeface named after himself (Grasset)
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Eugène Grasset

Encre L. Marquet (1892)

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Eugène Grasset

Sarah Bernhardt as Joan of Arc (1895)

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Eugène Grasset

Calendar Images for La Belle Jardinière -

August (1896)

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Eugène Grasset

Calendar Images for La Belle Jardinière -

November (1896)

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Eugène Grasset

Calendar Images for La Belle Jardinière -

December (1896)

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Eugène Grasset

Calendar Images for La Belle Jardinière -

February (1896)

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Eugène Grasset

Apple Picker, Vol. 2

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Eugène Grasset

Grasset typeface

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Jules Chéret

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(1836 - 1932)

  • French painter and lithographer.
  • “Father of the Modern Poster”
  • 1895: Created Maîtres de l’Affice (Masters of the Poster), a publication of small poster reproductions by 97 Parisian artists which inspired a whole generation of poster designers and painters.
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Jules Chéret

1883

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Jules Chéret

1891

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Jules Chéret

1893

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Jules Chéret

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Jules Chéret

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Jules Chéret

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Beggarstaff, J & W

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(1893 - 1898)-years worked together

  • Pseudonym of British brother-in-law artists, William Nicholson & James Pryde
  • Ignored many of the trends of art nouveau, which made their work an innovative artistic success, but a financial disaster
  • Posters are known for their clean designs, bold colors, and suggested lines
  • They named their company after a label on an old sack in a stable.\ They thought it sounded “Hearty and English.” They preferred to be called “J & W Beggarstaff”, but others eventually referred to them as Beggarstaff Bros.
  • Created a new technique - Collage using cut pieces of paper moved around on a board, leaving figures incomplete to decipher. They also worked in woodcuts
  • Known for clean design, bold colors, and suggested lines. Very influential on modern design
  • Influenced by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. James Pryde was quoted as saying he was “one of the few artists who understands what a poster is and should be.”
  • Due to issues similar to the example in slide two (poster not printed due to bad likeness), the partnership split
  • William Nicholson concentrated on painting Illustrated books by Robert Graves. He also illustrated The Velveteen Rabbit and design stained glass. He designed the original sets for Peter Pan. He was considered quiet, detached, serious and driven.
  • James Pryde (Scottish) became an actor in plays. He was also a set designer (created the sets for actor, Paul Robeson’s, Othello at the Savoy Theatre). He was considered outspoken and gregarious, also a “casual worker”.
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Beggarstaff, J & W

1894

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Beggarstaff, J & W

Their most famous poster. For a production at the Lyceum Theatre. Never actually printed, though, due to “bad likeness”

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Beggarstaff, J & W

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Beggarstaff, J & W

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Beggarstaff, J & W

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William H. Bradley

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(1868 - 1962)

  • Designer, illustrator, printer, typographer, and publisher sometimes called the “Dean of American Designers”
  • Initially called “The American Beardsley”
  • Also known as Will H. Bradley
  • He was born in Boston to a cartoonist father
  • He moved to Chicago and became a wood engraver, typographer and freelance graphic designer
  • Bradley moved back to Massachusetts, where he formed Wayside Press, a publishing company. He self-published a periodical called Bradley: His Book (featured poetry, stories, sketches). It was a critical success.
  • Bradley was incredibly prolific during this time, but collapsed at age 28 of overwork (for perspective, nearly all of the examples shown here were created the year before this breakdown).
  • He was dubbed the “American Beardsley” due to similar aesthetics, but he was already established in America by the time Beardsley became popular in England
  • Bradley Sold Wayside Press and became the editor for Collier’s magazine. Throughout his career, he also illustrated children’s books, worked as a set designer for William Randolph Hearst’s film division, and became a consultant to the American Type Founders
  • Bradley was a prolific artist and designer until the age of 94
  • Many type faces were created based on his designs (“Bradley”, Wayside Roman, Missal Initials, Bewick Roman, Vanity Initials)

– The peacock poster is the only example without repetition). Also, his work during this time almost always has a limited color palette, but it not just black and white

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William H. Bradley

1894

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William H. Bradley

1895

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William H. Bradley

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William H. Bradley

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William H. Bradley

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William H. Bradley

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