Art Nouveau in 8 Minutes: Why It Has Never Gone Away? 🤷
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- Art Nouveau was a highly decorative art movement started by the new middle-class, which established itself in cities throughout Europe and the United States at the turn of the century. It was a genuinely cosmopolitan project of modernity that existed in all sorts of media, forms, scales, and geographies. Everything from architecture, interior design, decorative arts, fashion and graphic design was influenced by this new art. It was literally new since the term Art Nouveau is a French word for "new art."
So what was so new about it? Let's find out!
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I loved Art Nouveau all my life, especially as a teenager during the 60's, when it was stripmined for band poster imagery and album art. I see in this excellent documentary that the influence of Art Nouveau fell off at a period just as the automobile was taking over the world. I would have wished, I guess, that a few of the artists could have taken a whack at early automobile design. Who knows what they might have produced? Cars that looked like dragonflies or geishas?
Who knows indeed but they would have looked absolutely different than the cars now :)
@@CuriousMuse A lot of locomotives were "streamlined" by Art Deco, so we might have had more tail fins and chromed exhaust ports.
I guess the confusion also comes from the Noveaus' exploration of decorative arts, which might lead people to believe that it's art deco.
But since you mentioned Geishas, it was great to see the sort of mirror image in Japanese art, where art was used more for decorative or other pragmatic purposes and only later allowed to be for its own sake. While in the (broadly speaking) West, the Japanese and other culture's arts served as inspiration for the decorative movement that tore art away from a purely high brow concept.
The more you get to know, the more such interesting crossings become apparent and it's extremely fascinating.
"stripmined" is an interesting choice of words.
They did it’s a called a Tesla ❤️👍😬
I got to see one of Mucha's actual posters on display in a museum, and NOTHING prepared me for the staggering SCALE of the thing. We're so used to seeing them on monitors and our phone screens, but these things are TALL. The women are basically life-sized. It was overwhelming in its splendor, and the feeling I got looking up into her serene face has stuck with me to this day.
Wow, also didn’t know they are in real life size!
Mucha's famous Slav Epic series of paintings are even larger than that, really hope to see them one day irl as well.
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While I was in art school, I had the pleasure of visiting a large exhibition of Mucha originals, sketches, and preliminary designs at the Frye Museum in Seattle. As a lifelong Mucha devotee, it was a monumentally moving experience- really life-changing. But I suspect that even were I completely new to his works, it would have touched me deeply.
:O! NIce. I had no idea, thanks for the mental image. owo!
To me for some reason, not only the beauty of organic shapes and floral themes and beautiful women, but the sharp contouring... I just love how strong the contours are, usually we are advised to not employ strong contours in fine art and idk. I love art nouveau for it
Those lines are mesmerising! 🤩
Right? There’s this subtle shading in tones and gentle transitions in color, especially in the face. Then you see the bold outlines. Truly it’s an interesting juxtaposition.
I always thought it resembled Celtic Insular art, from the 800's or so, with more realistic depictions of humans.
It's gorgeous!
P.S.-- They derisively called Alphonse Mucha's work "The Belgian Tape-Worm Style," when it came out, which is cruel.
Honestly, Art Nouveau does not really feel 'old' at all. Many of the most famous pieces have a very modern feel about them, despite being a century old. It's rather like a blending of the classic and modern. I have a tarot card deck that is done in this style, and there are times where I just marvel at some of the pieces. I really would love to get some wall prints.
Good luck to get some wall prints! They'll look stunning.
What deck?
ah tarot art nouveau took my breath away, that's my next purchase. absolutely adore the art style
Because styles inspired by nature never gets old
Art Nouveau is timeless which is why it feels so modern even now. The premise of Art Nouveau is that it imitates the natural form whether it's humans, flowers, leaves etc. Nature never goes out of fashion and anything that imitates her is also timeless
Art Nouveau is immortal because it represents the perfect marriage of realism and aesthetic, exemplified in my opinion by the work of Mucha, and later J.C. Leyendecker. In my view this blending of realism and appeal make it the highest form of modern art, but I'm probably just saying that because Mucha is my favorite artist.
Definitely agree 👍💯
I love that art nouveau is inarguably celebrating the feminine. And that the female forms it celebrates are not unrealistic or unhealthy - but natural and elegant.
I am a fan of Art Nouveau, and have been forever (teenager in the 60's - go figure) but when looking for images on line it isn't unusual for Nouveau to be merged with Deco. I know there are similarities, but the Soul of Nouveau is completely different from Deco. I'm glad you made the distinction in this video. Very interesting, Thank you.
Glad to hear we did well. Thanks for watching and your feedback! 🙏🏻
~ *go figure* Haha! Do take care. Salva Ukraini 🇺🇦
Worth mentioning that there were several distinctive branches of it, which looked very different to each other.
Even within every branch there is such variety that could be almost unrecognizable the fact that they belong to the same style. We can think of Modernismo Catalán, or even Gaudi itself has a huge diversity.
Then we can think of German Jugendstil, Austrian Viennese Secession (so geometrical and goldish), Bavarian Munich Secession (greco-romanian and goldish), Hungarian Secession (lots of flowery and colourful forms), Italian Liberty (classic, heavy and sculptoric), etc.
We agree! The topic is so big so we are thinking about making more videos about different art nouveau styles 👌🏻
@@CuriousMuse Yes please
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Greco-romanian or Greco-Roman, because those are two different things?
....and don't forget the Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his brilliant artist wife Margaret Macdonald. Mackintosh's Japanese-inspired geometric designs were a major influence on the early designs of Josef Hoffmann at the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Secession).
There is definitely something magical about the art style. He has that colorful, vibrant look that just makes you feel good looking at it.
I love Art Nouveau stylings. I'm definitely a sucker for the idealized feminine form and setting it in nature has, I think, kind of a universal appeal. Maybe that's from strong influences of the 1960's-70's in my impressionable youth.
We are the same! The style is definitely charming 😍
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Alfons Mucha is Czech artist so I think his name should be pronounced not in french but in czech :)
Indeed!
This. It is so difficult to take these channels seriously when they have no respect for the artists and can't put a minute of work into finding the correct pronunciation of their names.
And the narrator kept repeating it, it was horrible. It showed narrators lack of knowledge in this field.
Agree!
it's not even French. It would be Musha then :)
The woman doesn't pronounce it in french in the video but in english...
I don't find myself engaged into viewing and studying Art Nouveau, but what I am impressed by is Klimt, the son of a jeweller, masterfully combining his delicate and elegant portraits of women with decorative patterns and gold, making the whole piece less of just a painting and more of an adornment of sorts, like a piece of jewelry.
Wonderful - and we’ve got a video about him in this channel 😍
I agree, as I love the architecture, interior design, jewelry, and sclpture, yet the drawings don't excite me as much.
I found a Liberty silk scarf in a charity shop, and the design just shone through the grime in the fabric....washed it when I got it home and it is just stunning! Nothing touches Art Nouveau for me.
When you look at architecture whether it be from the Middle Ages , Art Deco or Art Nouveau, it most certainly is unmatched by the ubiquitous glass and steel of today.
I can’t help but think that its core attraction is that same thing that draws many to boho styles. The movement, colors, and busy patterns will always be welcome to a certain large percentage of people, whether it is popular or not.
It’s just so beautiful 😍
I have been obsessed with Art Nouveau for decades. I collected Muchas Posters when I was a teen and still have many. A truly beautiful genre.
Mucha is actually so good. I feel like his style would fit right in with current digital artists.
Art Nouveau somehow seems to be the last style in both art and architecture that is effortlessly appealing to a broad audience. Where functionalism, international style, brutalism and postmodernism remain divisive and classicism being the object of rebellion, nouveau seems to be at least accepted by just about everyone. Maybe it is precisely because it only lasted for so long and never had time to become dominant and stale?
Good question, perhaps, we’ll never know! 😊
“Mid century modern” would beg to differ 🤣 and I think the 1940s to 1970s film art is widely influential. Interestingly in design I see more of the Art Deco I’m everything from book covers today to data visualisations
@@StaringCompetition Deco is just incredibly satisfactory to our pattern-seeking brains. It's one common source of antagonism is not aesthetic but ideological. As it was a celebration of industrial prosperity happening at the same time as the deadliest modern pandemic, the great depression and the first world war.
If we're ever at a time wherein optimism beats cynicism and frugality, we might be allowed it's elegant delights again.
I've just discovered about this Art Nouveau (literally 20 min ago) and I am absolutely in love with it! I've been asking myself why I did so long to discover this art style, It's majestic!
Never late to learn something new !☺️ glad you’ve discovered this style!
Come to Europe, you will enjoy it a lot.
I have loved Art Nouveau since I was a little girl. It’s so great to see an informative video that shows so many beautiful examples of it.
Music to our ears, thanks a lot for stopping by! 🙏
a gorgeous video. stands head and shoulders above the rest of the art videos on this particular style.
So kind of you, THANK YOU! 😚👍🏻
I didn’t realize that my stylistic choices were subconsciously informed by Art Nouveau! Thanks for this video I loved learning more about it♥️🥰
How cool! Your stylistic choices then are so elegant!
Love how you included that shot of Aerith fanart from Final Fantasy VII
We though it’d work well and so we did 😅
@@CuriousMuse indeed it worked! 👍
I love Art Nouveau. There's something about the symmetry and depth of colors that's always resonated with me.
I love it too!
Mucha has always been one of my favorites.A genius.👍
I've been a fan of Art Nouveau for as long as I can remember. I especially enjoy the stained glass work of Louis Comfort Tiffany and the architecture of Antoni Gaudi. 💜💜💜
The recent science-fiction subgenre of Solarpunk also takes some aesthetic inspiration from the style, because of its natural forms, appeal to craftsmanship, and utopianism. (It also takes aesthetic elements from arts & crafts and non-Western cultures.)
Thanks for sharing this interesting fact!
I get emotional and even tear up when I see art nouveau architecture and paintings. It truly was a revolution and rebirth for the world of art in my opinion. It so strongly contrasted the industrial revolution that was happening when the movement started. Artists drive culture, and this movement to me reflects the hearts of a culture that was yearning for the more organic and free essence of the feminine as the rough and gruff factory technology was on the rise. They broke out of traditional historical values of art and made it more accessible to the masses, too. As an artist today, we have so much freedom, and people in movements like this paved the way for us.
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"why it has never gone away" because it's freaking beautiful ❤️
Put simply: Art Nouveau is the fusion of a resurrected Romanticism, Symbolism, and Expressionism. Fabulously beautiful and sensual. There has never been anything like it.
Yes, I do like Art Nouveau! In Riga, Latvia we do have a lot of Art Nouveau buildings closer to Old City, to Silent Center 👍
I've loved this style all my life, but I never knew there was a name for it! I love waking up with some education, thank you :)
Art Nouveau is one of my favorite art styles, & I'm currently trying my best to imitate it digitally for a set of character portraits for a fantasy series that I love. I think in analyzing it & trying to crack the code on "what makes Art Nouveau look right" I've come up with some observations, many of which you covered in your video:
1. Sinuous, flowing lines evoking movement, with thicker, graphic outlines drawing attention to the central figure
2. Natural motifs, especially uncommon, unusual, or unpopular "lowly" creatures (flies, grasshoppers, bats, sparrows, cicadas, & mice proudly alongside the peacocks, eagles, swans, etc.)
3. Use of sacred geometry, rule of thirds, Fibonacci spirals, & other biologically aesthetic guides in the composition, which is often taller than it is wide
4. Subtle, natural, soft colors, nothing neon or eye-burning, but not always restricted to pastels or light colors either (this is the part where I struggle most - depicting a black robed costume in Art Nouveau is uniquely frustrating for some reason for me!)
What do you think? Are there other key aspects of Art Nouveau that truly define the style?
Thanks
It's never gone away because it's beautiful.
Agree 😍
I just love how whimsical this art style is ✨
Im definitely aiming to make my adverts so beautiful that people would like to take them home and hang them up! This is my new motto. Imagine how much sles you could get for sparking such needs in people. Taking a poster home with you… thats really a great goal.
I'm glad this video was suggested to me.
Really fun for eyes and ears with beautiful examples and of course informative.
Ever since my art history classes in university I was naturally obsessed with Art Nouveau and I still am. The organic celebration of nature and feminity inspires me every day! 💖
This celebration of nature and feminity is a great inspiration indeed! So happy you got to watch our video!
Art Nouveau at times feels like bringing surreal elements into our world. But being from the period it's from, I can see why it tries to represent this utopic, idealistic and modern society that revolves around blending art and function.
Thank you, so in your view, why does it try to represent this utopic, idealistic and modern society?
@@CuriousMuse imagine being part of the first generations that truly embraced living in a big city. That "metropolitan feel" would express itself in a way that reflected how people saw their environment
I LOVE art nouveau. Not just the 60s, but the originals. I'd do every room in my house with the wallpaper and tiles if I could. Deco leaves me flat. Pre Raphaelite is very nice. But Nouveau has my heart.
I absolutely love it! It's gaining back popularity and inspires new artists to this day. The intricate and wild decorations are absolutely gorgeous and holds space for some subtle story telling.
I'm a great admirer of this style and I wish more designs of everyday objects would follow the basic forms of Art Nouveau.
I have always loved AN, but I could never quite put my finger on why. This vid made me aware of the connection with psychedelic art which I also love. I feel like I'm getting a little closer to grasping what it is I find so fascinating and moving about it all.
Lovely, same feelings here!
I worked as a fabric painter for a designer and I appreciate the simplicity of the art, yet rich and intricate with it's flowing movement and beauty...pure elegance! I am an Art Nouveau lover forever!
I absolutely love it 😻 As an old artist it has always been my Muse. I'm happy you took your subject and brought it forward for current audience to have a 360 view 🎉
You’re so welcome 🥰
I ♥️ the styles of Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, and Art Deco - my 3 absolute favorite styles. 😊
Love this video! Informative, dynamic and colourful.
So glad to hear it! 😍
In Argentina the influence of Art Nouveau in architecture was very important
Absolutely, Art Nouveau spread throughout the world incl. Argentina - some of the finest edifices are in Buenos Aires! 👍🏻
I adore art nouveau! I'm quite fond of art deco as well, but nouveau edges it out in my top favorites list. I had a history of graphic design class and this was my favorite section, closely followed by the broader medieval era. Art nouveau should have another popular resurgence, I'm getting tired of all the harsh contemporary modern looks.
Same here, we really enjoy both styles. Thanks for watching! 🙏
I checked more vids about Mucha just to hear how people pronounce his name. I was surprised by the muchas gracias option used here. He was Czech/ Austro-Hungarian empire. Even Americans and French on different channels managed to pronounce the Czech sounding Mucha, as Greeks pronounce Christos or if you tried to pronounce Johann Sebastian Bach as Germans do.
Thanks for your feedback. Overall ours is a more common British pronunciation which is different from the 'original' one (Czech). We've noted it though, in our next videos we will be sticking to the CZ version.
Ha! I wish I had seen this video before I had to make an Art noveau-inspired birthday card ☺
This was definitely worth staying up for 🤓 Happy Friday from Cali 😄
Thank you for doing this, really appreciate it! 😊🙏🏻
The illustrations in the L. Frank Baum books published after "The Wizard of Oz" are heavily influenced by Art Nouveau. That is where I was first exposed to the style.
Such a great introduction to this style!
I absolutely love Art Nouveau. So elegant & precise
Alphonse Mucha became an inspiration to artists in the 1960s and my mom is a hippie at heart
I love art. My Favorite is Art Nouveau
We love it too! 👐🏻
This is a good short survey. You didn't mention my favorite aspect of the movement however. I love the Babylonian Revival that took place within Art Nouveau. The Egyptian Revival within the Art Deco movement is more well known, but both had their origins in contemporary archeological discoveries, and opened beautiful imaginative vistas.
Thank you for sharing this interesting fact! 👍🏻
I love Art Nouveau, particularly the work of Alphonse Mucha.
Love Art Nouveau in Architechture, particularly in Building arounds European Cities like Paris, Budapest, Vienna & most important one in Riga Latvia in Baltic. Although created mainly in France, Belgium, Vienna it's spread in many cities throughout Europe, today Riga is considered as one of the city with most concentrated Art Nouveau styled buildings, around 800.
Was amazed to see the resurrgence of this style after Fall of communism in Baltics. Special use of Mythical Creatures in the ornament decorations, use of Leaves, Insects & Nature is breathtaking.
Berlin has also quite few buildings with this style, always dream of living in one of those !
Loved it all my 80 plus years.
Splendid visual feast -- thank you.
Lovely short documentary. I hope you can do another one at a slower pace and much longer. Thank you
even as a child I have always been so attracted to Art Nouveau (as well as art deco)
Art Nouveau was my absolute favorite period for art, French architecture and furniture. Sad there is so little of the later!
Brilliant (and Ms Madelin's French is impeccable).
Thank you - we’ll let her know ☺️
@@CuriousMuse Thanks and I’ve just subscribed. Can’t wait to explore further.
I think most companies jumped on that style around the turn of the century to sell anything from biscuits to bicycles.
I remember going to my first 'head' shop back in 1972. Inside were art posters, some with black-light glow!
I ❤❤❤❤❤❤ it. Nothing more to say. The colors,the lines, the flowers, the lettering, the style--ALL OF IT!
Art Noveau is one of my favorite styles and Gustav Klimt is one of my favorite painters.
This genre is iconicly refreshing. Thank you
Art Nouveau, to me, is the most beautiful art form. My favorite artists are Maxfield Parrish and Louis Comfort Tiffany. I also love art deco which is so different from art nouveau. Hard lines versus soft curves.
It’s so beautiful indeed 😍. Thank you for sharing your favourite artists, we’ve just checked out their works - so Art Nouveau! ❤️
@@CuriousMuse I have a few Maxfield Parrish original prints from the 1920s. There is actually a color blue named "Maxfield Parrish blue". The artist Thomas Kinkade admitted he "stole" Maxfield Parrish painting technique. If you look at landscapes by both artists, you can see why.
@@Raittway thankyou for sharing😊🙏. I will now look up Maxfield Parrish.
And MP Blue 🤩💙
Art Nouveau creates magical worlds where things are perfectly balanced and beautiful
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In the 1970s I had the privilege of studying at the Glasgow School of Art, an iconic building designed by the Scottish artist and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh. It was an architectural masterpiece which was sadly destroyed by fire. I love Art Nouveau. My student flat was plastered with Alphonse Mucha posters, and every time I see a piece of artwork from that era it takes me back to my heady student days. (My profile picture was taken then!)
I really like this style. I was in Paris a few years ago and noticed the architecture and the subway fonts. However I never knew in what style it was made. I'm really enjoying this channel and these videos. Thank you. I have learned a lot from them.
So pleased to hear it! Thank you so much for this lovely feedback 🥰
I absolutely love art nouveau and Klimt especially. Would love to see more of this style of art in new construction…it is gorgeous.
I see a lot of the influence in fantasy art. It's still around because people crave beauty even now.
I was struggling to understand the characteristics of Art Nouveau, but this video helped me put it in perspective!
I could binge watch hours of the Art Nouveau animated graphics. Intensely mesmerizing.
It’s so beautiful indeed 😍
Very well done. Thank you.
Thank YOU ☺️👐🏻
I love this art style! Even in the 21st century I see it applied to video games, art and user interfaces, the most prominent being Genshin Impact :)
Outstanding!. So happy to have found your site
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My favourite art style. I fell in love with it when I first learnt about it in high school and I'm still in love at 40 🙂❤️
It’s so beautiful indeed 😍
Great video. One thing, though: Mucha is pronounced as "Mooha" with an "h" like in house. But still, it's a great video.
Thank you! 😇
Art nouveau will always be beloved !
I have always loved this style but never new it was Art Nouveau! ❤
I was fortunate to attend Traum und Wirklichkeit in Weinin the summer of 1985,during my honeymoon. What a dream come true.
Love that it has never disappeared!
I think it's funny that Nouveau was so anti industry, but if you look at H.R. Giger's stuff, some of the most industrial looking art ever, it has MASSIVE art Nouveau influence.
There's something to be said about the stylistic and thematic dichotomy between organic, curving Art Nouveau and the geometric, rigid Art Deco. They're polar opposites, yet both adhered to ideas of utopian modernity.
I've always thought Art Deco was a modernized, streamlined version of Art Nouveau. Think of it as a teenager's interpretation of updating Mom and Dad's view of life. After a few exciting, tumultuous years they'll relax and return to something a little less - frenetic ?
Well done , great presentation of this beautiful subject matter .
These artist took the power of the line to new heights
Thank you! 😊
When I think of Art Noveau...
I think of "Transistor", by SuperGiant Games, developers of "Hades" and "Bastion".
I love the style so much that my only 2 tattoos are done in it, and I took a trip to Glasgow just to see all of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibits. There are definitely different branches that make up what we call Art Nouveau, and they tend to border on the Arts & Crafts and Deco movements, but the divine feminine and focus on nature are what make the pieces truly stunning. Besides Mucha and mackintosh I would also recommend Aubrey Beardsley, LC Tiffany, and Guimard. Klimt’s work never really had the same effect on me, but he is generally included in the movement as well. It’s the first real print advertising style, so the industrial revolution had a lot to do with its popularity and reach.
My fav. Love the colours too. Love the vin diagrams between nouveau and other forms like acid and tribal.
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Καταπληκτική Ιστορική αναδρομή. Ευχαριστώ.❤️🍉🇬🇷
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I had learned about art Nouveau as it relates to psychedelic rock posters but never knew this much about its history and tradition. Thank you for such an insightful video!
Interesting but I was disappointed that there was no mention of the wonderful architects of Art Nouveau in Brussels. Brussels has some of the most iconic houses of art nouveau. Victor Huge for one. One can visit many stunning art nouveau establishments in Brussels, designed by some of the best known art nouveau architects ever known, and no mention in your video? 😞
Thanks for the feedback! It’s a VERY short video to be able to cover wonderful Art Nouveau architects in Brussels. Perhaps a great idea for another video 💪🏻
There are so many variables in Art Nouveau that a comprehensive analysis would be unending.
Also Gaudí was missed. You showed almost at the beggining some pictures from his buildings, like Casa Batlló and Sagrada Familia. I believe that he was one of most wonderful exponents of architecture. Maybe he deserves a vídeo dedícated exclusively to him. Gaudi in 8 minutes, like Zaha Hadid vídeo. Thank you!
Art Nouveau was a beautiful and lively art indeed. Your video also showed many good examples and was very well done. Thank you!
Very nice intro to the movement. There's a film I really like that blends psychedelic style in an Art Nouveau period setting: Morgiana, directed by Juraj Herz. It's hard to find but definitely a very unique trip, and your video helped me realize why the two styles blended so well
Thanks for the film suggestion! 👍🏻
I have made many studies of Mucha.
I guess I've always had a fascination with the form.
To me art nouveau lives on as the most graceful expression.
This was really interesting! I thought it would have been great to look closely at WHY exactly the revival in the seventies came up, since those delicate curves and lines are not something I thought would be very typical for that decade.
Such a great idea for our next video 👍🏻 thank you 🙏🏻