Art Nouveau - A Beginner's Guide
The Winds of Change Bring in Art Nouveau
The Art Nouveau style occurred during the last quarter of the 19th century and evolved from Aestheticism and the Art and Crafts Movement. The revolution occurred because many artists and designers were disenchanted and bored with the fussiness of Victorian art, design, style and fashion. New design and style ideas appeared in many different areas of Victorian life, and designers continued to search for ways to reflect the changing world of the late 19th century. In Britain, in the last quar...

Art Nouveau & the Mackintosh Style
What is 'Art Nouveau'?
To this day there is confusion and lack of consensus on what the Art Nouveau style actually is. Beginning around the last two decades of the 19th century, the style developed simulateously and almost independently in several countries; predominantly throughout Europe. Today when we look at works accepted to be from the Art Nouveau movement, we see the strong trend towards decorative and organic elements. Art Nouveau was also termed "The Whiplash" due to the use of highly dynamic, flowing curv...

Art Nouveau & Alphonse Mucha
The Beginnings of Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau is an artistic style that became popular at the turn of the 20th Century. It came about as a rebellion to Academic Art (that influenced by academies and university and heavily influenced by Neoclassicism and Romanticism) and was a far more whimsical style; heavily featureing floral and plant motifs in a curvilinear fashion. Art Nouveau was, in addition, widely applied to architecture and decrative arts. In the early days, Art Nouveau was known by a number of different names in di...

Art Nouveau
An international style of decoration and architecture which developed in the 1880s and 1890s. The name derives from the Maison de l'Art Nouveau, an interior design gallery opened in Paris in 1896, but in fact the movement had different names throughout Europe. In Germany it was known as 'Jugendstil', from the magazine Die Jugend (Youth) published from 1896; in Italy 'Stile Liberty' (after the London store, Liberty Style) or 'Floreale'; in Spain 'Modernista', in Austria 'Sezessionstil' and, pa...

ART NOUVEAU RINGS
Art Nouveau Rings and Jewelry
I used to dabble in buying and selling jewelry online and I have to say that my all time favorite style of jewelry was Art Nouveau. There's something about those flowing lines that speak to the soul. This lens will try to give a little background and lots of examples of what is available today in this wonderful style. I hope you enjoy it. Picture is of a JUGENDSTIL Superb Secessionist Ring - Gold, plique-a-jour enamel & bronze pearl - Length: 1.3cm Width: 1.8cm - French import owl mark - Circ...