Ar Noyvo'

The Peacock Skirt, work of Aubrey Beardsley (1892).

With the term Ar Noyvo' (Art Nouveau) we were reported in the international artistic movement that was developed in his dues 19th century up to his beginnings 20th century. Depending on the geographic place in which we developed, it received various names, as Stile Liberty in Italy, Modern Styl in America or Modernism in Spain, while in Germany it was presented with the term Jugendstil. The French term Art Nouveau it was used in France and Belgium and be attributed as New Art. As movement it did not allocate big homogeneity, it was mainly expressed in the space of her decoration and architecture, touching upon however and all the sectors of artistic expression and it influenced later tendencies in Modern art.


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Growth

Her style Ar Noyvo' it is considered that it began to be shaped in his decade 1880 but the period of his important acne is placed temporally in the interval 1892-1902. Afterwards 1905 we meet his limited and individual expressions. It constituted movement with international haraktirrjstjka', kacw's it was developed in a lot of different countries between which America, England, Holland and Scandinavia.

The name Art Nouveau it was used for first time by modern critics of art in Belgium and later it constituted his name gkalerj' Paris Maison de l'Art Nouveau, under the address of Samuel Bing and which was specialised in modern work Ar Noyvo' artists. There is exposed work of artists that is considered today as the fathers of movement, as the Edvard Munch, or sculptor Ronte'n.

Despite the artistic activity of city of Paris, Ar Noyvo' it appears that we developed still more in the Nancy, so much so that is created also corresponding Faculty her. Catalytic however role in her development Ar Noyvo' it is considered that played his International Report 1900 in Paris, where the pioneering new style dominated.

Characteristically

Basic characteristic traits of movement are the epjti'deysi of form, mainly for elements that are drawn from the nature as well as his narrow cross-correlation with his movement symbolism. Ar Noyvo' it was connected still with the Japanese and gotcjki' art. Up to the dues of 19th century the Japanese influences are intensified permanently, as the witness the publication perjdjkoy' Artistic Japan (1881-1991) from the Samuel Bing, as well as the reports of Japanese art that are organised from Central Union of Decorative Arts (1893) and Faculty of Good Arts (1890). The Japanese art offered in Ar Noyvo' the imitation of natural forms but also the search of complex decorative subjects.

Her other characteristic Ar Noyvo', it is the disposal of artists they suppress distances between the different forms of art, that they try also they unify. For this reason it is also considered total style that was connected with all kinds drawing, in architecture, in the internal decoration, in sculpture, in epjplopojj'!a, in the jewels, in the manufacture and elsewhere.

In architecture and the decoration, her style Ar Noyvo' it was lented enough elements from the art of Vjktwrjani's of season, adding at the same time modern ideas in his abstractest elements the baroque styles.

Her new artistic characteristics Ar Noyvo' it is considered that they prepared his later pioneering movements 20th century, as it was expresjonjsmo's, cubism and yperrealjsmo's.

Mainer representatives

Βάζο Αρ Νουβό αισθητικής, έργο του Daum (Nancy, π. 1900).
Vase Ar Noyvo' aesthetics, work of Daum (Nancy, p. 1900).
  • Architecture
    • Jmile Andrj
    • August Endel
    • Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926)
    • Victor Grasses (1861-1947)
    • Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956)
    • Hector Guimard (1867-1942)
    • Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928)
    • Louis Sullivan (1856-1924)
    • Otto Wagner
  • Painting
    • Aubrey Beardsley
    • Gaston Gerard
    • Alfons Mucha
    • Edvard Munch
    • Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
    • Pierre Bonnard
    • Gustav Klimt
  • Furnitures
    • Carlo Bugatti
    • Eugcne Gaillard
    • Louis Majorelle
    • Henry van de Velde
  • Decorative arts
    • Charles R. Ashbee
    • Samuel Bing
    • William Bradley
    • Jules Brunfaut
    • Hermann Obrist
    • Philippe Wolfers

Bibliography

  • A. Mackintosh, Symbolism and Art Nouveau (1978)

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