Wednesday, 28 December 2016

Art Nouveau Movement

Art Nouveau is one of the most art movements that exists. It was a very influential movement but it didn't last long. This movement was created in the late 19 century but when the next century started this movement was dying as the time passed away. The designers of that age went trough Europe and their goal was to create new styles which resembles more to the modern age and you can find like organic, flowing lines- forms and geometric shapes for example squares and rectangles. The Art Nouveau stopped trending in the 1920s as it was starting a new movement the Art Deco. 

One of the many artists that got influenced by this movement was none other than Alphonse Mucha. Mucha grew up with two social cultural force that were the Catholic church and the slaves Independence in the Austrian Empire. In his hometown church which was sculptured with baroque style gave mucha that spark in art and he decided to move to Vienna as he began an apprenticeship for a stage painter. As he was in Vienna surrounded by all that art he discovered a passion for the work of Hans Makart. He starting earning money by making portrait commissions to people which from that he got introduced to a very important mentor which was Count Khuen-Bleasi. This mentor helped mucha to begin training in fine arts in Munich which then complete his career as an illustrator in a magazine and from there he created a particular calligraphic style. Then he completed his studies in Paris at the Academie Julian and Colarossi. Art here with many artists new ideas came and these ideas started to become what is known as the Art Nouveau of art in everyday life. 

The impact that Mucha left in that period of time was important. He was known for his work in advert posters because he had quite and audience that got influenced and attracted by his work. His main work was done in Vienna and in Paris and in an Art institute in Chicago. In Chicago he released a new way in art in which he calls it as "New Art" and intended this new way to Americans. Mucha was one who designed the poster with a very detailed pattern and insert that Art Nouveau in many several attraction like natural forms, decoration, to give more insight on mechanical production. 

In Mucha work you can see clearly that he loves to insert that feminine theme into his work. The 'New Woman' impression what Mucha wanted as he wanted to decrease the masculine mentality in the world. Mucha got involved in a lot of different media and by that he came very popular with the audience as he reached a lot of different types of audience. Mucha was the most involved when you mention Art Nouveau as he have done many posters. He have done alot of porject for his nation as he had that pride for his country and he gets very interested in the national traditions as he wanted to give that special thing in in history of Czech and it's culture.