Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau• Art Nouveau appeared in France around the early

1890s. The man responsible of introducing the Art Nouveau style in architecture and decorative arts was a Belgian, Victor Horta. The staircase in the Van Eetvelde House is a perfect example of the Art Nouveau style.

• Art Nouveau is can be most easily recognized through its curving lines and emphasis on the decorative.

• Art Nouveau appears in architecture, decorative art like furniture, jewelry, posters, and even in metro stations.

Art Nouveau• Stokstad writes that Art Nouveau rejected the values of

modern industrial society and sought new aesthetic forms that would retain a preindustrial sense of beauty. Art Nouveau drew inspiration from nature: from the shapes of snakes, flowers, vines, and winged insects, whose forms were the basis of attenuated linear forms.

• According to Gardner, Art Nouveau emerged at the end of the nineteenth century and adapted the twinning plant form to the needs of architecture, sculpture, painting, and all decorative arts.

• Art Nouveau borrowed pattern styles of Van Gogh, Gauguin, and their Post-Impressionists and Symbolist contemporaries.

Victor HortaStairway, Tassel House, Brussels1892-93

Victor HortaBrussels1892-93

Antonio GaudiGuell ParkbenchesBarcelona, Spain1900-1914

Antonio GaudiCasa Mila

Barcelona, Spain1907

Hector Guimardmetro entrancesParis, France1900

Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAvril poster 1893

Gustave Klimt

Poster for the First Secession Exhibition 1898

Gustave Klimt

The Three Ages of Woman

1905

Gustave Klimt

The Kiss

1907-1908